Claiming My Childhood Sweetheart for Myself (Both Reborn)

[Content Warning: The leads have many misunderstandings.]

At a family banquet, the parents of both households try to arrange a match and ask Pei Fumo, "Your childhood sweetheart is old enough to marry. Would you be willing to take her as your wife?"

Pei Fumo curls his lip arrogantly. "No. I've been looking at her for over ten years. I'm sick of her."

Just then, Jiang Xuqing, newly reborn, throws herself into Pei Fumo's arms in front of everyone. "Father, Mother, I want to marry Xiao Jiu Pei!"

Pei Fumo stiffly pushes her away. "Are you crazy?" Hasn't she always hated him?

No one knows what Jiang Xuqing went through in her previous life.

Only as she lay dying did she understand her own feelings. In her previous life, Pei Fumo had loved her with all his heart, only to meet a tragic end.

Given another life, all she wants is to spend it with Xiao Jiu Pei.

But she has come back at the wrong time.

At this point in her previous life, she rejected Pei Fumo by pretending she had fallen for the newly returned eldest son, Pei You. Gritting his teeth, he wished her happiness.

*

Jiang Xuqing doesn't know how to make things right until the day the Pei family holds a banquet to celebrate the return of their long-lost eldest son.

Jiang Xuqing goes to the Pei estate with her parents to offer congratulations, but she inexplicably disappears. When everyone finds her, she is already on Pei Fumo's bed.

Now that her reputation is ruined, Jiang Xuqing has no choice but to marry him.

On their wedding night, Pei Fumo's attitude toward her is no better.

All she can do is explain, "Xiao Jiu Pei, believe me. I really didn't set you up."

In her previous life, Pei You had clearly schemed against her, forcing her to become Pei Fumo's sister-in-law. This time, she had wanted to avoid that, but somehow fell into a trap again. Only this time, she woke up in Pei Fumo's bed.

Jiang Xuqing never understands what went wrong.

Until the day Pei You stops her by a rockery. Before she can escape, her gaze collides with Pei Fumo's icy eyes.

Pei Fumo completely loses control and drops his pretense.

At night, he hoarsely demands again and again, "Mumu, look carefully. Who am I?"

*

The one thing Pei Fumo could never let go of in his previous life was his childhood sweetheart, who had never loved him. Only after truly losing her did he learn what it meant to have his heart torn apart.

After being reborn, Pei Fumo finally understands.

She is his life-bound gu. As long as she is here, he can survive.

In this life, even if he has to resort to despicable means, he will have her.

[Reading Guide]

1. Both leads are reborn. One-on-one romance, both are each other's first and only partner, childhood sweethearts.

2. After being reborn, the male lead becomes possessive and turns dark. [Content Warning: The leads have many misunderstandings.]

Upcoming novel, With Tenderness, please add it to your reading list

Yi Rou follows her aunt to seek refuge with the Xie family. On the very day she arrives, several young masters in the household set their sights on her. She is beautiful, but lowborn, and no one knows she already has a one-and-a-half-year-old child.

To protect herself, she spends days searching and finds the most suitable candidate: the Xie family's legitimate eldest son, Xie Yuheng.

Xie Yuheng is renowned throughout the realm. His conduct is pure, and he is as unattainable as a cold moon over snowy mountains.

Many noble young women want to marry Xie Yuheng. Yi Rou could never be one of them.

But she is more willing than any well-bred young lady to throw away her dignity, and her methods of seducing Xie Yuheng make people look down on her.

Just as she is about to get what she wants, Yi Rou discovers an intersecting scar at Xie Yuheng's waist.

It is exactly like the one borne by her child's father.

*

When Yi Rou was sixteen, she used her body to cure the gu poison of a strange man and was forced to give birth to his child.

She has never seen what the man truly looks like.

With a child whose father is unknown, she has no choice but to put aside her pride and find him a father who will accept and protect him.

She never expected the man she had worked so hard to find as a stepfather would be the very man who had abandoned her and her child.

Thinking back to how it all happened,

if the Xie family learns the truth, they will never let her stay.

Later, when Xie Yuheng plans to take her as his wife,

Yi Rou's eyes fill with tears as she says, "Thank you, Cousin, for looking after me these past few days. But Yi Rou has always regarded you with nothing but admiration."

*

The young master of the Marquis's estate comes to the Xie family with betrothal gifts, intending to marry Yi Rou as his principal wife.

On the eve of the grand wedding celebrations,

Yi Rou keeps disappearing from her bedroom at night.

Every time she opens her eyes, the first thing she sees is Xie Yuheng's dark, shadowed gaze.

He grips her chin hard and tempts her in a low voice. "Only admiration? Yi Rou, I'll give you a chance to take that back and say you like me."

1. Coercive romance, a madly possessive male lead, and melodrama.

Theme: Hold fast to your original intentions.