Reborn: The General's Cherished Wife

Shen Zhijin once believed that Xu Jingyan was her whole world.

To help him build a life from nothing, she left home to join him, alone, in a desolate frontier region. To help him rise to prominence, she endured a body covered in scars and won countless glorious military honors. Since a civil official and a military officer could not marry, she even surrendered her command of the troops, all so she could spend her life by his side.

She waited eagerly, full of hope, believing their happy ending was just around the corner, until he told her himself that he was going to marry someone else.

Seven years of devotion had become a joke.

Heartbroken and dazed, she rushed to the battlefield. In the end, she died beneath the enemy's blades for his sake.

When she awoke again, she discovered that time had turned back. She had been reborn seven years earlier, when she had only just met him. There was still time to change everything.

This time, she swore to put love behind her and live for herself.

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After Shen Zhijin died, Xu Jingyan went mad.

Only then did he realize that she had long since become part of his life, someone no one else could ever replace. Tormented and wishing he were dead, he prayed to the heavens, offering the rest of his life in exchange for seeing her once more.

Perhaps the heavens took pity on him. When he awoke again, he had returned to seven years earlier, the day she had left home to join him and confessed her feelings.

This time, he swore he would marry no one but her, and make up for every way he had failed her in his previous life. But who could have guessed that she would seem like a completely different person?

Unable to understand what was happening, he followed her everywhere, thinking things would return to how they had been. Then she stood shoulder to shoulder with someone else, on the opposite side from him.

The man held a long sword gleaming like snow and pointed it at him from afar.

"This time, she's mine."

Core theme: Live for yourself.