1.
As Tu Xu lay dying, she thought back on her short life.
She had always been bold and used to getting whatever she wanted. There was nothing she couldn't have.
Except Xie Qingci.
Everyone in the prominent family circles knew that the eldest daughter of the Tu family had fallen in love with Xie Qingci at first sight and declared she would win him over.
Even after Xie Qingci rejected her, she refused to give up and stayed by his side.
But from beginning to end, Xie Qingci never once saw her.
Later, the Xie family fell on hard times and needed to form an alliance through marriage.
The Xie family sent Xie Qingci to Tu Xu.
His gaze remained as cold as ever.
Tu Xu thought: If I can't have Xie Qingci's heart, I can still have him.
Xie Qingci said, "Tu Xu, you're truly insane."
All her life, she and Xie Qingci had been entangled with each other, leaving both of them wounded. In the end, the only thing that had ever felt beautiful to her was that absurd dream.
2.
Tu Xu was reborn three years in the past.
This time, she'd come to her senses and decided to let Xie Qingci go.
Tu Xu avoided meeting Xie Qingci at the school anniversary, avoided gatherings of the prominent families, and avoided every occasion where she might see him again.
The rest of Xie Qingci's life had nothing to do with her.
She would let him go, and let herself go, too.
When they met again, Tu Xu appeared at a friend's birthday banquet with a suitor. The guests teased them.
Then Xie Qingci arrived.
Their friend introduced him. "This is the young master of the Xie family, Xie Qingci."
Tu Xu calmly raised her glass to him. "A pleasure to meet you. I'm Tu Xu."
Xie Qingci's reaction was as cold as ever, even the beauty mark at the corner of his eye seeming icy.
Later, a friend told Tu Xu in private that the young master of the Xie family was so aloof, and wondered who could ever catch his eye and win his heart.
At that moment, Tu Xu recalled how, after their "first meeting," Xie Qingci had appeared at her door on a rainy night. Like a defeated man surrendering, he lowered his head and said with red-rimmed eyes, "Tu Xu, I lost."
3.
"She strode boldly into my life, then left as she pleased, without a shred of mercy, leaving me all alone."
- Xie Qingci
Theme: If you love someone, fight for them!