Niche-interest warning! Female-to-male warning! This is a narcissistic romance!
After years of being ground down by society, [Chu Xi] finally became a mature, steady corporate professional.
Then she opened her eyes and found herself ten years in the past, as [Chu Xi].
That wasn’t a big deal. She had no desire to be reborn just to take the college entrance exam all over again.
But she’d changed genders, too. Now that was a huge problem!
The one facing the college entrance exam was eighteen-year-old Chu Xi.
Chu Xi knew what she had been like back then: her family had given up on her, her classmates shunned her, and she was lost and miserable in the struggles of adolescence, only a little way from going astray.
At this point, she was probably skipping the sports meet, putting on smoky makeup, and riding a motorcycle up the mountain... before crashing and breaking her leg.
The “cold and heartless” modern woman decided she still had to save herself.
Chu Xi thought the man named Chu Xi was strange. The fact that their names sounded the same was the least strange thing about him.
At their first meeting, she decided he had bad intentions. Her mind flashed through twenty episodes of a legal education show.
She was rebellious, but she wasn’t about to get kidnapped.
At their second meeting, he acted like an old-fashioned scholar.
A clever, slightly unhinged heiress x a gentle, devoted puppy (probably?)
A girl and her own salvation.
Chu Xi held the girl back from embracing him and said calmly, “We can’t be together.”
Chu Xi, now an exemplary college student, had tears in her eyes.
“Why? You love me, don’t you? Otherwise, why would you help me?”
Now she was proud and radiant, the center of everyone’s attention.
She didn’t have to take all those wrong turns to find herself. She was shining at just the right age.
But in this moment, she had become that girl again.
She chose every word carefully, leaving room to retreat, and even asked her question with caution.
“Is there really no chance at all?” she choked out. “No chance that you love me?”
It was the first thing the unloved child had ever gathered the courage to ask for.
He let go of the hand he had raised to hold her back, letting her smile through her tears as she rushed forward and buried her face against his chest.
“Of course I love you.”
In this world, even if nobody else loves you, I will.
Theme: Love yourself
