After Being Reborn, I'll Never Be a Substitute Again

The wife-chasing crematorium / white moonlight / substitute trope

1. In her previous life, Sui Sui grew up in an orphanage. At eighteen, she was taken in by the Gu family, a wealthy household she had never even heard of.

The reason they came looking for her was simple: the Gu family's only daughter, Gu Yumo, had died unexpectedly, and the two girls happened to look alike.

To resolve the orphanage's crisis, Sui Sui decided to do her best to play the role of a substitute.

But Sui Sui had overestimated herself. Being a substitute turned out to be far more painful than she expected.

Everyone around her looked through her and saw someone else's shadow.

When Sui Sui was close to forgetting who she really was, a boy told her earnestly, "Sui Sui, stop being someone else. Be yourself."

The boy was Zhou Yuyan of the Zhou family, Gu Yumo's childhood friend.

But Sui Sui had always felt Zhou Yuyan treated her differently.

Affection took root and grew, until it became overwhelming.

On the day Sui Sui confessed, Zhou Yuyan froze for a few seconds, then finally nodded.

2.

Not long after they got together, Zhou Yuyan got angry with Sui Sui for the first time. "Who told you to touch this bracelet?"

Sui Sui held the broken bracelet, at a loss.

Only later did she learn it was the only thing Gu Yumo had left him.

It turned out Gu Yumo was not only the apple of the Gu family's eye, but also Zhou Yuyan's white moonlight.

It turned out he had only pitied Sui Sui. He had told her to be herself because he didn't want to sully his white moonlight.

The orphanage was now running smoothly, and Sui Sui had given up completely. She was preparing to leave the Gu family.

Who could have expected an accident? She and Zhou Yuyan were kidnapped by their enemies.

She chose the same path as Gu Yumo, dying to save Zhou Yuyan.

But she never expected to be reborn.

Back on the day before she was taken in by the Gu family, Sui Sui swore that if she ever became someone's substitute again in this life, she'd be a dog.

3. The day he lost Sui Sui, Zhou Yuyan finally understood what it meant to lose the person he loved forever.

By the time he admitted he loved her, he had already lost his entire world.

After being granted a second life by the heavens, Zhou Yuyan only wanted to make things right with Sui Sui and start over with her.

But he never expected Sui Sui to reject the Gu family.

He was even more surprised when he went to the orphanage to find her. He saw none of the fleeting admiration in her eyes that he'd seen in their previous life. Instead, he saw a coldness he'd never seen before.

From then on, every careful attempt to win her over was met with Sui Sui retreating further and further away.

Content warnings:

1. A wife-chasing crematorium. The shou pursues the gong.

2. The gong is turned gay by the shou.

3. Both are each other's first love, and both are sexually inexperienced.

Theme: Stand firm in being yourself.