Back to 1996

Before she was reborn, Li Shanshan was a country girl who couldn't afford college after graduating from high school. Thanks to her peerless beauty, she married a billionaire twenty years her senior. She had children and received a fortune, then got the opportunity to study abroad. She enjoyed a life of wealth and luxury while enduring controversy, and was called a "baby-making machine for the wealthy."

After being reborn, she decided to take a different path.

First, she'd work hard to earn money for tuition, then study hard and go to college. With the time left over, she'd make money to buy houses and become a landlady, then find a hot young guy for a romance.

But a certain older man doesn't seem willing to let her go.

And things keep straying further and further from her original plan. Everyone says she has a talent for sprinting. If she'd known in her previous life that she could win an Olympic gold medal, why would she have married an older man so young? She could have made a name for herself on her own.

Content warnings:

1. The male and female leads are twenty years apart in age.

2. The female lead flips houses, literally.

3. The focus is on her studies and career, with a lighter romance plot.

4. In his previous life, the male lead was divorced before meeting her. In this life, circumstances leave him unmarried.

5. The children they had in their previous lives will not be born in this one.

The synopsis for my next novel, The Divine Healer of the Red Chamber:

Lin Ruhai, the Imperial Commissioner of the Salt Administration, is critically ill and near death. As his only daughter, Lin Daiyu, weeps, a beam of light suddenly descends into the room.

A young woman carrying a medicine chest steps out of the light and introduces herself as Lin Ruozhu.

She cures Lin Ruhai, and becomes his younger sister and Lin Daiyu's aunt.

With an aunt to care for her, Lin Daiyu will no longer meet a tragic end.

Theme: Be self-reliant. You don't need to marry to change your fate.