After Falling in Love with My Past Self

[Self-pairing, a Narcissus story]

For the first half of her life, Xie Qing Jue was a gifted young woman. Then her family fell from power, and she was imprisoned in the Soul-Locking Pagoda for decades, experiencing the full range of human kindness and cruelty.

She survived, but nearly went mad.

Later, she found an opportunity to escape and plotted relentlessly, killing all her enemies. Before long, she grew weary of it all.

To see her old friends one more time, Xie Qing Jue concealed her true appearance, took the name Qin Yu, and used a secret technique to return to the past.

Back then, the young lady of the Xie family was still young and had yet to endure the hardships that lay ahead. She was like a sturdy, flourishing green bamboo, full of vitality.

The years of the past, buried beneath a sea of blood, had long since blurred. With feelings she couldn’t quite name, Qin Yu found herself unable to stop gazing at her past self.

She watched over her, taught her, and protected her.

Beneath the lovers’ tree of the Wu tribe in Qingzhou, the bonfire burned brightly. Qin Yu had drunk too much, and in a moment of befuddlement, she accepted the bouquet the young woman offered her with tender affection.

They were hibiscus flowers, a symbol of mutual love and a promise to be together for life.

Music and laughter filled the air around them. Only when she saw the young woman’s ears turn crimson did she realize what forbidden promise she had just made.

The secret technique could not keep her in the past for long.

Qin Yu traded her life to kill her enemies, returning to her own timeline just before she died.

The hibiscus flowers she had made into a bracelet and carried with her were now broken and worn.

Without looking back, she left as abruptly as she had come.

They had parted, and there should have been no chance of meeting again.

But…

Soft vines wrapped around her waist and abdomen. A woman’s chronic illness flared up, leaving her too weak to break free, forced to lie back and submit.

The unexpected visitor had the exact same face as her. She leaned close to her ear, affectionate, a smile on her lips, though her bamboo-green eyes were full of icy malice:

“Long time no see, A Jue.”

“I finally caught you.”

#Xie Qing Jue. The character Jue means jade.#

#Self-pairing. Identical faces and bodies. The secret identity will definitely be exposed.#

Theme: I love myself