After Being Reborn, the Scum Top Beat Up His Former Self

At twenty-eight, Lian Dongyin is Rongcheng's youngest rising star in venture capital.

Always impeccably dressed, with a fortune worth hundreds of millions, everyone says he's levelheaded, decisive, and slick in his dealings.

But on the night he received an engagement invitation from the boyfriend he'd broken up with eight years ago, he drank himself into a stupor.

When he opened his eyes again, he'd returned to eight years earlier.

Bai Zhi smiled at him.

Lian Dongyin thought he'd been given a chance to make amends and start over.

He'd made up his mind.

He'd take things step by step and win Bai Zhi back.

Until he hid behind a plane tree outside the law firm and saw his twenty-year-old self pinning Bai Zhi inside a sports car, kissing him like he never wanted to stop.

And it got worse:

In this world, he had no identity, no bank card, no company, and no mansion.

Venture capital CEO Lian Dongyin didn't exist in the records, so he had no choice but to work at the coffee shop downstairs from Bai Zhi's apartment building.

Serve coffee by day.

Wipe tables by night.

And whenever he had nothing to do, watch his twenty-year-old self drive up in a sports car to pick Bai Zhi up after work.

All the while, twenty-eight-year-old Lian Dongyin could only stand at the door with a tray and smile as he served them.

"Welcome."

What he was thinking was:

Welcome, my ass.

That's my wife.

*

Later, Bai Zhi still broke up with twenty-year-old Lian Dongyin, and the twenty-eight- and twenty-year-old versions of Lian Dongyin got into a fight.

Bai Zhi called out impatiently, "Lian Dongyin."

They both looked up at the same time.

Twenty-year-old Lian Dongyin stared in disbelief. "Bro... your affair partner hit me?"

Twenty-eight-year-old Lian Dongyin looked eager to please. "Bro, did I do a good job teaching him a lesson?"

Bai Zhi: "..."

[Reader's Guide and Content Notes]

1. Alternating top and bottom perspectives. They broke up over a non-fundamental issue. This is not a traditional groveling-after-the-breakup story.

2. A lighthearted romance from the start, with an underlying bittersweet tone and a more serious style. The main plot is about rebuilding a relationship, not rekindling an old one.

3. The career storyline is central and takes up a fair amount of space, driving the romance forward.

4. A self-conscious and restrained twenty-eight-year-old venture capital CEO and an anxious, puppy-like twenty-year-old young master, both tops x a clear-headed, elite, emotionally cool lawyer.

*The blurb is only a blurb. It reflects the relationship, not the plot of the main story.

Theme: The world is unpredictable, so cherish the present.