In his previous life, Lin Wang had a father who didn't care for him and a mother who didn't love him. He picked fights, got into brawls, and did every kind of bad deed. He was notorious at school as a reckless troublemaker.
Lin Wang remembered the second time he met Wu Yang: on the day the new seniors reported for their first day of class. The boy, in a white shirt, was delicate and handsome, with a sickly air about him. He became Lin Wang's deskmate and smiled as he introduced himself. "Hello! Fancy seeing you again. My name is Wu Yang."
Wu Yang, Wu Yang, may you always be well. From the way he carried himself, Lin Wang could tell he was a young master born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Aside from being handsome, getting excellent grades, playing piano and guitar, and being able to paint, there wasn't anything particularly impressive about him.
Just a sickly weakling, Lin Wang thought bitterly.
But later, faced with the same empty seat again and again, and seeing through thick glass the boy lying unconscious with a ventilator, Lin Wang found himself on the verge of breaking down time and time again.
His own mother had once said to him with disgust, "I shouldn't have given birth to you."
His biological father had dragged him to a corner, afraid someone might see them. "Why are you here again? Wasn't the money I gave you last time enough?"
In the less-than-glorious first half of Lin Wang's life, only that pale-faced boy had ever spoken to him with warmth and certainty:
"Meeting you was the greatest stroke of luck."
Because of those words, Lin Wang followed in his footsteps for ten whole years. He went to the city where he studied for college to attend a vocational school, then went to the country where he pursued his graduate studies to do business.
To outsiders, they were inseparable friends. Only Lin Wang knew that this ten-year friendship was just a disguise, a sheep's coat he wore.
This unrequited love came to an end when Wu Yang fell to his death in an accident, the year Lin Wang turned twenty-seven.
Holding the flowers and ring he'd prepared so carefully, Lin Wang stood before a pool of blood and closed the eyes of his friend, who had died before his time.
When he woke again, he discovered that after taking revenge, he had drunk himself into oblivion and been reborn ten years earlier. Facing the familiar face introducing himself, Lin Wang's outstretched hand trembled almost imperceptibly.
"I know you. It's been a long time."
[Gentle Beauty Top x Brooding, Unhinged Bottom]
P.S. A mutual crush with arrows as thick as tree trunks. They dote on each other. Bottom fans, read with caution.
Theme: Love rises with the wind, and romance never fades.