After I Was Diagnosed with a Terminal Illness, My Archrival Kept Trying to Save Me

[Female protagonist's perspective. A story of side characters sharing a shabby rental. Enemies turn into crushes.

Turns out you're the moonlight I've always dreamed of.]

[Female lead: aloof and proud, dirt poor, sickly] x [Male lead: clawed his way out of the mud to make a comeback, a businessman]

Yan Si was once the young master of a wealthy family, used to getting whatever he wanted. After the Yan family went bankrupt, he was buried in debt, falling from the clouds into the mud overnight and becoming the target of everyone's ridicule, especially his nemesis, Lan Xiang.

She'd called him a bastard and a good-for-nothing plenty of times, telling him he deserved to go bankrupt.

After more than ten years of struggling in the business world, Yan Si went from a proud, noble young master to a slick and worldly businessman. He finally made a comeback, but before he could get his revenge, he heard that Lan Xiang had died of a terminal illness.

He sneered bitterly, still holding a grudge. "What goes around comes around. The time just wasn't right. Why couldn't she have waited a little longer to die..."

But as soon as the words left his mouth, he died young too.

Luckily, the System saved him and sent him back seven days. If he could save a specific person and complete the mission, he could change his fate.

As luck would have it, that person was his former nemesis, Lan Xiang.

When Yan Si found her, she was living in a shabby rental, her face deathly pale and her body so thin a gust of wind could carry her away. Still, she coldly tossed aside her medicine and laid into Yan Si.

"Oh, the useless simp has turned into a big-shot CEO again?"

Yan Si sneered and raised an eyebrow. He knew the pathetic wretch was up to no good.

As if to get revenge, he gripped Lan Xiang's chin and forcibly shoved the dirty medicine back into her mouth.

Then he told her the bad news: he was going to save her, and the two of them were in for a long haul...

Lan Xiang listened in silence, but refused to cooperate. After half a month of stalemate, Yan Si was out of options and had no choice but to follow the System's suggestion:

Every night, erase his memories and return to the past, letting his younger self heal the wounds in the young Lan Xiang's heart and rekindle her will to live.

And so Yan Si began his miserable routine: by day, he followed Lan Xiang every step of the way, making sure she took her medicine; by night, he returned to the past to save a lonely girl who had never known love.

By day, Lan Xiang was cold and sarcastic, always making snide remarks. But at night, she was frail and vulnerable, living in a dilapidated house that looked ready to collapse, so thin she was skin and bones.

Like a stray cat, or a beautiful, aloof white magnolia about to fall from its branch.

She hit young Yan Si right in the heart.

Later, young Yan Si treated young Lan Xiang better and better, until his attempts to heal her began to go off course... The adult Yan Si, checking on their progress during the day, could tell something was wrong.

Why was his younger self becoming more and more obsequious? More and more clingy? Better and better at acting like a doormat?

That was impossible!

Just then, the System played an even more explosive video for Yan Si:

In the middle of the night, inside the tiny rental, his younger self was begging his young nemesis like a dog wagging its tail, his voice hoarse and infatuated...

"Xiangxiang? Give me a kiss?"

Adult Yan Si nervously glanced at Lan Xiang, who was still making sarcastic remarks at him from the corner of the room. For some reason, his knees felt a little weak...

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What? Turns out you're my unspoken ideal type?

After being loved, flesh and blood will grow wildly. (From the internet)

Theme: Redemption