When Will That Jerk Finally Die?

Jiang Chu and Bai Qinghuai were betrothed as infants and grew up together.

After they married, they were as close as husband and wife should be, and their love became the envy of all, celebrated as a model romance.

Until, before the memorial altar for her father and brothers, Bai Qinghuai brought a dazzling, bold woman before her. He ignored Jiang Chu's grief and insisted on offering her father and brothers' keepsakes as the betrothal gift for marrying that woman as his secondary wife.

Jiang Chu still believed Bai Qinghuai had only been temporarily blinded.

The woman made a brazen display of herself before Jiang Chu.

She said that when Jiang Chu's father and brothers were in danger, Bai Qinghuai had been only ten li away. He had been whispering sweet nothings with her, letting Jiang Chu's family die.

She said that if Bai Qinghuai hadn't pitied Jiang Chu for losing her father, he would have divorced her long ago and married her as his principal wife.

She said that if Jiang Chu knew what was good for her, she'd hand over the item the woman wanted immediately, and the woman would spare the child in her womb. Otherwise, she'd cut the child out and use it as medicine.

Jiang Chu trembled from head to toe. Her dagger sank into the woman's body, and pain that pierced her bones swept over her. Blood poured from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, but her hand, which had stabbed the woman, refused to let go.

She watched the woman's face twist in death, her eyes never closing. She watched Bai Qinghuai rush over in a panic, shouting her name.

She closed her eyes in regret. What a pity she couldn't take him with her when she died.

When Jiang Chu opened her eyes again, she had returned to the age of fifteen. In a daze, she looked at Bai Qinghuai, who was still a boy, kicked him straight into the lake, and walked away.

You heartless, treacherous bastard. Go die already.

Reader advisory: Rebirth, a husband chasing his wife to the crematorium, and a discussion of all the ways the male lead can die.

Theme: Someone will light a lamp for you, and someone will lean on you at dusk.