A Slow-Burning Heart [Reborn]

On the morning of her college graduation, Chu Zhi received a bouquet of baby's breath with no name on it. The card said only four words: "Happy graduation."

That night, her classmates dragged her to a karaoke bar. As she was leaving, an out-of-control truck came barreling toward her.

The lights were blinding. In a daze, she thought she saw someone running toward her.

When she opened her eyes again, she was astonished to find herself back at the age of sixteen.

-

Chu Zhi couldn't understand why she had returned to the year she was sixteen. As far as she remembered, that year had been no different from any other. Utterly ordinary.

She was in her second year of high school, and her family was constantly pressuring her to study. She had no time to think about anything else. She would just do things the way she had before.

One day, her math teacher kept the class late, and by the time she headed home, it was almost dark.

She had walked that bluestone lane home countless times. As she made her way along the dimly lit road, she heard footsteps behind her.

She took a deep breath, picked up a stone from the roadside, and spun around without warning, hurling it behind her.

She missed.

"Chu Zhi, what are you doing?"

A boy's low voice cut through the darkness and reached her clearly.

He stepped out of the shadows, dressed in a black jacket. A notch cut through one eyebrow, his features were sharp, and his dark eyes stared straight at Chu Zhi.

Chu Zhi froze. He was the neighbor who lived in the courtyard across the lane. His name was... what?

Xia Fanxi.

-

When Xia Fanxi was ten, his parents divorced and dumped him at his grandmother's house, then left him to fend for himself.

His grandmother didn't like him, and he didn't like her either. Most of the time, they sat in silence, neither of them speaking to the other.

He had no friends in the lane, and no one he could talk to. Everyone called him a "little beast" who had parents to give birth to him but none to raise him.

He had a bad temper. Whenever they insulted him, he'd beat them up. In less than two years, he had become the lane's notorious little punk.

Once, after a fight, he was limping home with an injured leg when the other kids in the lane spotted him. They jeered at him and were about to pick on him again when a girl behind them shouted, "The police are making their rounds!"

The kids scattered.

He looked up and saw a pretty girl with big eyes and a ponytail. She handed him two bandages and left.

Later, he learned her name was Chu Zhi.

In his heart, a gardenia named Chu Zhi quietly blossomed.

[Top Student Girl and Vocational High School Boy]

--

Coming soon: After Being Reborn, the Spoiled Heiress Stops Acting Out. Please add it to your bookshelf!

↓

When Sheng Yan died, she learned that she was the rich female side character in a CEO romance novel, a spoiled troublemaker whose every tantrum existed to make the heroine shine even brighter.

When she opened her eyes again, Sheng Yan found herself reborn at the beginning of the story, just as the heroine was about to appear.

This time, she swore she would never ruin her wonderful life by throwing tantrums over some worthless man.

-

In Q City, people said that the second daughter of the Sheng family had changed overnight. She used to be arrogant and outrageous, but now she was gentle as water, and one smile over her shoulder could leave everyone spellbound.

At a party, someone claimed Sheng Yan was only putting on this act to get Gu Fang's attention.

Sheng Yan approached gracefully with a wineglass in hand and set the record straight in front of everyone: "With my status as Sheng Yan, do I really need to lower myself to get Gu Fang's attention? If I want a certain kind of man, do you think I can't get him?"

Someone teased her: "Then what kind of man could possibly catch the eye of a Miss Sheng?"

Sheng Yan gazed at the man at the party in a black suit, his features cold and his build tall and lean. She narrowed her eyes. "Someone like him would do nicely."

-

Huo Luan, the only son of the Huo family, is an aloof and haughty top-tier star and award-winning actor, the dream man of countless heiresses in Q City. He's over thirty, yet still single. People gossip about what kind of woman could ever catch the attention of such a powerful figure.

One day, a trending topic suddenly shot to the top of the list.

It featured several blurry photos taken from the same angle. In them, Huo Luan had a woman pinned against a wall, kissing her passionately.

The topic went viral, and Weibo's servers crashed.

Later, people noticed that the woman in the photos looked remarkably like the second daughter of the Sheng family.

#Shock! The award-winning actor is off the market!#

#Huo Luan's girlfriend is actually the second daughter of the Sheng family!#

Theme: As long as you dare to try, there's nothing you can't do