After Dying a Thousand Times in One Day

Cheng Xiaoyao was kidnapped.

She was kidnapped more than two thousand times in a single day.

And died more than two thousand times, too.

When she finally escaped the death loop, she discovered that something seemed strange about the world.

A transparent shadow hanging over a landscaped strip in broad daylight.

A mud-covered shadow wandering around a construction site.

A bloody shadow that went in and out of the residential complex with a knife every morning at nine.

A mother holding a bowl of rat poison and constantly telling her intellectually disabled son to take his medicine.

Cheng Xiaoyao: "...???"

Is the world not normal?

Or am I not normal?

I can't even catch ghosts, so why do I keep running into these things?

P.S. The heroine can see ghosts, but can't catch them. She only knows how to use physical force.

There's a bit of mystery. The first twenty chapters are all about dying. The story of escaping the death loop begins after chapter twenty.

The supernatural elements are only a small part of this story.

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Modern romance: Ten Years in His Heart

Shang Ran was well-behaved and sensible from childhood, always following the rules. The most outrageous thing she ever did was slip a letter into the desk of the boy she liked on the day the college entrance exams ended.

As luck would have it, Cheng Jin caught her in the act.

Cheng Jin was the school's most famous and charismatic student: unruly, arrogant, and a top scholar. In their three years as classmates, Shang Ran had said so little to him that she could count their conversations on one hand.

The carefree boy stood by the window with his bag slung over one shoulder, silently watching her with an inscrutable look.

His gaze made Shang Ran blush with embarrassment. She retrieved the letter and fled, then disappeared from the class group chat.

*

Years later, Cheng Jin had won every major award in the film industry. During an interview, he was asked what the darkest day of his life had been.

Cheng Jin said, "The day the college entrance exams ended. I was going to confess my feelings to her, but I saw her slipping a letter into another boy's desk..."

The moment he said it, #ActorChengJin'sSecretSchooldayCrush shot to the top of the trending topics.

The entire internet started searching for the person who had given Cheng Jin his darkest day.

At the time, Shang Ran had just gotten off a plane and had no idea what was going on. She only thought the internet back home was worse than abroad, since she couldn't even log into Weibo.

*

A man and a dog came to Shang Ran's veterinary clinic.

The dog seemed to be the stray she'd often fed during the second half of her senior year.

The man also seemed familiar...

Beneath the dim lights, the man wore a baseball cap. His dark eyes beneath the brim were like polished black onyx, gazing at her with intense longing.

In a warm, gentle voice, he said softly, "Shang, my dog Da Huang has been losing his appetite lately. Could you take a look at him?"

That "Shang" brought the memory back to her.

The mortifying feeling of being caught giving someone a love letter all those years ago returned.

Shang Ran thought this would be a simple doctor-patient relationship.

But before long, he showed up reeking of alcohol and held her captive in his arms, pleading, "Ranran, will you give me a chance?"

His burning breath enveloped her. In her panic, Shang Ran heard herself say, "Yes."

Theme: Meet tomorrow with a grateful heart, and embrace life with a smile.