When the Swallows Return

Ye Songyi of the twenty-first century died and became Ye Songyi, an orphan in Nanjing.

Given another chance at life, Ye Songyi opens a restaurant, makes friends, studies medicine, and takes the time to enjoy life.

As for her fiance, he is not only handsome, but also understanding and reasonable.

Ye Songyi thinks of He Yue as nothing more than her fiance's friend.

But on the day of her engagement banquet, when the guests mock her without restraint,

He Yue kneels without hesitation in the direction of the Ye family ancestral hall. His voice rings out, resolute and firm: "I, He Yue, swear on my life that if one day I win Miss Ye's heart and marry into the Ye family, I will faithfully uphold my duties as a husband and never do anything to wrong Miss Ye or the Ye family."

Alarmed, Ye Songyi seizes on breaking off the engagement as an excuse to leave Shengdu.

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Ever since returning to Shengdu, He Yue has been having bizarre dreams. Every time he wakes, he forgets them.

He Yue considers himself a calm and self-controlled man, someone who has never done anything out of line in his life.

He never imagined that one day he would repeatedly break his own principles for someone, even going so far as to covet his friend's fiance, an act of such disloyalty.

He knows he shouldn't, yet he insists on doing it.

*Past-life arc:

Rumor has it that the orphaned daughter of General Ye is frail, subsisting on medicinal soup and spending all year bedridden, never leaving her room.

Another rumor says that the Ye family's orphan is cursed, and that her parents both died because of her.

After her engagement is broken off, the Ye family home becomes like a dead house.

Not long afterward, the orphan passes away in her sleep at midnight.

So she never knew that someone lit three thousand eternal lamps for her, just to guide her soul home.

Extra scenes:

1. Ye Songyi throws herself into He Yue's arms.

He Yue: "What's wrong?"

Ye Songyi looks up. "I kind of miss you."

He Yue bends to whisper in her ear. "I'll come see you tonight." He pauses, then adds, "We'll sneak around."

That night, in the dim light, the candles in the room flicker. He Yue pins Ye Songyi between the screens, avoiding her dewy eyes as he fixes his gaze on the red mole near her shoulder blade and slowly bends down...

2. With reddened eyes, Ye Songyi mercilessly tosses He Yue's bedding out the door. Even when he climbs in through the window, she chases him out again.

The servants in the courtyard, perfectly calm: "You'll get used to it."

3. He Yue has always been bothered by the matter of her fiance. Then one day, he discovers that the fiance is actually him!

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Theme: Like a little grass braving wind and rain, growing strong and unyielding.