[Pretended compassion × genuine sincerity]
[Past life × ancient character in the modern world]
Xun Wuxiang died in a ruined temple on a rainy night.
He leaned against a pile of straw, holding a safety charm stained red with blood, and gazed at the dilapidated Buddha statue.
The moon hung high overhead. He prostrated himself before the statue and made one final wish.
When he opened his eyes again, he had become a stray dog on the verge of death.
His master used to call him a worthless dog. Now he really was one.
The woman crouching before him had exquisite features and a compassionate gaze, like a goddess.
She smiled and held out her hand. “Poor thing. Want to come with me?”
Xun Wuxiang thought of the figure beneath the tree of immortality. Summoning all his strength, he wagged his tail and offered her his paw.
Chu Xin'an had a dream.
In it, she was a princess with immense power, betrayed and imprisoned by her elder brother, Chu Chen'an, then killed with a blade through her heart.
The last thing she saw before dying was someone setting a fire with tears in their eyes.
That person had the most beautiful lychee-shaped eyes, much like her little dog, Ami.
The fire made her heart ache. Holding her dog, she shed tears for the first time in her life.
Later, Chu Xin'an looked at her brother Chu Mingxian, who looked exactly like Chu Chen'an, and remembered that dream.
At last, she realized:
The cause in her previous life had borne fruit in this one. Someone had shed every last drop of blood and tears to win her this life.
Chu Xin'an, head of the Chu family, lost a dog.
An ad offering a huge reward ran on the giant screens in the center of Lingcheng for a whole month.
People said Chu Xin'an had gone mad, stirring up the whole city over a dog.
Then the eldest son of the Xun family, who had been in a vegetative state, suddenly woke up and braved the downpour to reach the entrance of the Chu family home.
She held an umbrella over him and asked gently but distantly what he wanted.
With his eyes red and wet, Xun Wuxiang asked, “You don't want me anymore?”
Chu Xin'an frowned and was about to answer when she saw him take a safety charm from inside his collar.
It was the very charm she'd tied around the neck of her missing dog.
#She pities me? No, she loves me!
Blurb written on 2023/8/27
[Reading Guide]:
1. Usually updated daily. If there's no update, I'll announce a break.
2. The heroine isn't perfect, and the hero has little screen time early on.
3. The main story takes place in this life, with scenes from the previous life woven in.
4. No incest in either the past or present life.
[New novel coming soon: Not Close. Please add it to your reading list~~~]
“You grabbed my hand during the baby grab, insisted on sitting behind me in elementary school, made a scene and told me to buy you pads when you got your period, and after a breakup in college, you made me drink, play, and sleep with you. Once we started working, I drove you everywhere. And now, after one kiss, you tell me to get lost?”
“Can you get off me before you say that?”
“No.”
Zhu Duoqing always thought Lin Ji, who lived across the hall, was naturally aloof and coldhearted. She'd hardly ever seen him smile, but he would agree to almost anything she asked.
So she used their childhood friendship as an excuse, invoked Lin Ji's mother's authority, and came up with all sorts of ways to boss him around.
After one particularly reckless stunt, Zhu Duoqing thought Lin Ji would get angry. Instead, he tugged at his collar and asked her for a little compensation.
Afterward.
Zhu Duoqing: “You should've said so. That's what you're into?”
Lin Ji: “?”
Blushing, Zhu Duoqing leaned in and planted a hard kiss on him. “I get it, you're into forced love!”
Lin Ji's gaze darkened. “Is that so? That's what I'm into?”
[Web-novel author whose mind is full of steamy fantasies × aloof childhood friend who's bad with words but good with his hands]
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[Obstetrician and gynecologist × funeral industry tycoon]
[Timid girl × emotional punching bag]
Arranged marriage to love / rekindled romance
Qi Jiuru saw Qiao Yiming again at her grandfather's funeral.
She watched Qiao Yiming arrange a paper funeral wreath. He wore sandalwood beads around his wrist, and when he raised his hand, the cold blue veins showed through his arm, making him look even paler.
That very night, her grandmother pressured her into agreeing to marry Qiao Yiming.
After they married, Qi Jiuru was out early and home late, often sleeping at the hospital.
But whenever she came home, hot food and a handsome man in an apron would be waiting for her.
Qi Jiuru held her bowl of soup as steam curled up around her. She heard the man across from her chuckle. “Can you stop being afraid of me now?”
No one knew that in the nightmares Qi Jiuru had in high school, there was always one particular person.
He carried the scent of incense, candles, and cold rain. His pupils were pitch-black, and one look at him was like seeing the end of your life.
Qi Jiuru yelled at him through her tears in front of her mother's gravestone. “It's all your fault! Why did you have to come see her?!”
She cried until she was exhausted, and Qiao Yiming carried her on his back, her tears falling on his shoulder.
Qiao Yiming heard her say in a hoarse voice, “Qiao Yiming, I'm afraid of you. Let's never see each other again.”
Qiao Yiming never went to the hospital where Qi Jiuru worked, nor did he ask to meet her friends.
Until one day, Qi Jiuru forgot to bring her ID.
He drove it to the hospital entrance. As soon as he lowered the car window, one of Qi Jiuru's colleagues spotted him and asked in surprise, “Isn't that the owner of the funeral wreath shop? You two...?”
Qiao Yiming tried to cover for her, but Qi Jiuru kissed him.
“My husband.”
#Our professions span life and death
#Our love has nothing to do with life and death
Theme: Take control of your own destiny
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