After striking it rich, Gu Cheng had no shortage of old friends of his late parents trying to set him up.
Gu Cheng couldn't stand the way those people acted. Before meeting Luo Han, he thought: I've got money to burn, and life without a care is wonderful! No one can use the meals they once gave me to blackmail me or latch onto me!
After meeting Luo Han: She's so beautiful! Life isn't complete without a pretty wife to warm my bed!
The problem was, he was dressed in rags, and before Luo Han even came out of the house, he'd already spouted a whole tractor-load of nonsense. The match was as good as over.
And because he'd put her down, the young woman named Luo Han got engaged not long afterward. Gu Cheng regretted it bitterly, but there was nothing he could do. He could only watch the woman he'd fallen for at first sight marry someone else.
Heartbroken, he returned to Jing City to keep building his business.
Unlike before, every year afterward he deposited a large sum of money in the bank under her name. Meanwhile, he lived on the dangerous, wildly lucrative edge, drowning himself in luxury and excess.
It lasted only three years before he couldn't take it anymore. First, his business partners betrayed him. Then he stepped on the toes of a local big shot in Jing City, and someone set him up and killed him.
Before closing his eyes, Gu Cheng thought: Thank goodness. Thank goodness most of the money is in Luo Han's name. Thank goodness the deposit slips are with her mother.
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When he opened his eyes again, Gu Cheng had been reborn at the age of twenty-four.
He knew Luo Han was about to get married, but he couldn't help asking around about her.
When he heard that Luo Han's fiance had gotten involved with her stepsister, Gu Cheng's mind went blank. He dropped everything and took the next ride home. All the way there, he kept thinking: The money from my previous life, did she keep it herself? Or did someone cheat her out of it, then kick her to the curb?
He even thought that being cheated out of the money wouldn't be so bad. He was only afraid she'd kept it herself, and that all that money had become a death sentence!
The first time Gu Cheng saw Luo Han after returning to life, they were at a department store. Her five fingers were wrapped in bandages. They were slender, yet rough, and her eyes looked dull with sadness. Holding his wallet, Gu Cheng followed behind her, flustered and unsure what to say.
She bought the cheapest embroidery thread, low-grade clam oil, and the least expensive candles... Maybe she couldn't bear to turn on the lights at night, so she had to buy candles.
Gu Cheng couldn't understand it. How could the person he cared about most be reduced to living like this, when he was someone who'd never cared about money?
If he'd known she'd end up suffering like this, he should have dragged her back to him in his previous life, even if he had to do it by force!
Theme: Never give up hope, no matter what your circumstances are.
