After Rebirth, My Crazy Lover Came Looking for Me

On her eighteenth birthday, Chao Xue meets a strange man.

He has long silver-white hair and blue eyes. The moment they meet, he grabs her hand, his gaze trembling with emotion. "A-Xue, I've finally found you."

Chao Xue is bewildered. "...Who are you?"

"I was your lover in a past life."

What is this, some ridiculous pickup line from another century?!

Chao Xue doesn't know what to say. After a long silence, she tells him, "But I already have a boyfriend."

To her surprise, the white-haired, blue-eyed man gives her a somewhat deranged smile. "That's fine. As long as I can stay by your side, I don't mind the three of us being together."

"...Huh?"

Chao Xue stares in shock, utterly flabbergasted, and immediately calls the police.

"Officer, help! A crazy person is stalking me!!"

*

Just as the police arrive, the man suddenly vanishes into thin air.

After that, he starts appearing in her life all the time.

While she's in class, eating, sleeping, shopping, or on a date...

He does nothing but gaze at her in a daze, his eyes full of longing and love. His feelings are so intense that she can barely breathe.

The man says his name is "Ruobai," a name she once gave him.

Chao Xue asks him what happened in their past life, but he sinks into dreamlike memories, laughing and crying, seemingly out of his mind.

Terrified, Chao Xue finally can't take it anymore. She warns him never to come near her again, or she'll hate him for the rest of her life.

She assumes the threat won't persuade him at all, but he truly never appears again.

Until she accidentally enters a demon's barrier, gets abandoned by her boyfriend, and finds herself heartbroken and on the brink of death. Then he appears before her once more.

His white hair billows, his blue eyes turn cold, and he's furious. "He actually dared to leave you here all alone. I'll kill him right now to make you feel better."

Chao Xue is so frightened that her tears stop. She grabs his hand. "Hey, man! Don't! That's against the law!"

*

Inside the demon's barrier, the man laughs madly as he crushes the monsters with overwhelming strength, not caring that their attacks are hurting him too.

When he sees the worry and terror on her face, the blood-covered man finally has to stop. In silence, he reattaches his severed arm.

"Don't worry, A-Xue. I can't die."

"..."

When she first learns he is immortal, Chao Xue is surprised, but doesn't feel anything in particular.

That is, until later, when they are caught in an illusion and their memories and inner thoughts become linked by a magical artifact called the Glazed Glass Lamp.

Chao Xue hears his thoughts surging over and over like black sludge.

They are all "I want to die" and "I love you."

The fragmented memories of more than a thousand years also appear before her.

Only then does Chao Xue understand.

It was she herself who, from the very beginning, turned him into an immortal monster and made him spend more than a thousand years searching for her as she repeatedly reincarnated, so he could protect her.

Reading notes:

1. The male lead has lived for over a thousand years, searching for the female lead through her reincarnations and witnessing her die dozens of times. His mental state is no longer quite normal, and his memories are badly jumbled.

2. The female lead dies at nineteen in every one of her reincarnations.

3. This story has a happy ending in the traditional sense.

Synopsis written on 2023/9/28 and archived on Weibo.

Theme: Love can work miracles.