The Gloomy Widower After Being Reborn

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[Blurb]

- In her previous life, the hero jumped into the sea after the heroine died of illness / reborn at the start / reunion long in the making / heroine adored by everyone / love rivals fighting over her

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When Guo Cha first arrived in Huacheng, everyone around her warned her to stay away from a man named Cheng Siyu. He was ruthless, cold, and sinister, and definitely not someone to mess with.

Looking at the gentle older brother before her, smiling as he softly called her "Cha Cha," Guo Cha fell into thought. So rumors and hearsay really couldn't be trusted.

Until one day, she received an anonymous email.

A video, several dozen seconds long: in a dark, sealed room, the man who had once tried to deceive her was on his knees, begging without a shred of dignity.

The next second, someone slammed him down onto a table.

With a bang, the gleaming tip of a knife plunged precisely between two of his fingers.

A familiar voice came from offscreen:

"Which hand touched Cha Cha?"

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Vile, possessive, insane.

In his previous life, Cheng Siyu used every underhanded means to claim the moon for himself, only to leave it tarnished.

Reborn, he began hiding his possessiveness and dark side, pretending to be a refined gentleman, as mild as jade.

He watched her shine freely on the screen, watched more and more people covet his precious treasure.

Cheng Siyu could only suppress his endless heartache and hope his beloved would let her gaze rest on him for just one more second.

Seeing how restrained he looked, Cha Cha asked carefully, "Is your company about to go bankrupt?"

As Cheng Siyu stared in stunned silence, Cha Cha placed a bank card in his palm.

"Don't worry. I'm making a lot of money now. I can support you."

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When Guo Cha wrapped her first film, she received a bouquet.

The card read: "Cha Cha, may you be free and thrive for years to come."

The handwriting was vigorous and elegant, impossible to forget after seeing it once.

When they first met, the same handwriting had left a line in her worn notebook:

"Ask Cheng Siyu to do anything. He'll do as you say."

Back then, he had said, "Let me be your connections in this city."

Now, he said, "May you be free and thrive for years to come."

Cheng Siyu gradually began to understand that the palace in the sky he had built in his previous life was nothing but an illusion.

He would never see Cha Cha at her most vibrant, because there had never been any soil there for her to grow in.

She was a wild weed, not a rose.

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- Cool, proud leopard adored by everyone x devoted, pure-hearted bking who falls for her on his own

Yunti, a leopard living on the African savanna, accidentally transmigrates into an old-school power fantasy novel for men, where she is an NPC who doesn't even make it into the harem.

In the original story, she is just a background character who takes a hit for the heroine on a wilderness survival show, gets caught in a Nile crocodile's death roll, and exits the story after one second of screen time.

Being human is so wonderful. So she can eat meat to her heart's content every day, Yunti decides to stay away from that bunch of lunatics and quietly watch the show.

Then she sees the arrogant, unruly rich second-generation heir, the story's "villain":

A pampered young master who can't lift a finger to help and has never had to do a thing for himself.

He runs into one obstacle after another in the middle of nowhere, and still insists on mouthing off in front of the special forces hero.

Yunti is speechless. No wonder he ends up as the hero's foil. Keep acting tough, and you'll get struck by lightning!

One day, Yunti can't take it anymore and pulls him aside. "Why are you always picking fights with him?"

The young master has just crawled out of a muddy ditch. His elegant hairstyle and expensive clothes are soaked in mud, and his fair face is bruised. He looks utterly miserable.

Yet he turns his head away with the same old haughty air.

If someone is determined to get themselves killed, there's no stopping them. Yunti turns away expressionlessly.

But someone grabs her wrist tightly.

She turns around and sees tears glistening in the young master's eyes. Breathing hard, he says in a choked voice:

"When I was rich and powerful and everyone fawned over me, you couldn't care less."

"Now that you've found out I'm actually useless, how could I ever compare to him? How could you possibly still... think I'm worth anything?"

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The first time Yunti went viral was when she leapt from a third-story footbridge and subdued an armed attacker with a single move, as if pouncing on prey.

Everyone doubted it was anything more than an outrageous publicity stunt. Then they saw her on a survival show:

On the southern foothills of a range of towering mountains, Yunti raced for miles with effortless agility and snatched a pack from a hungry wolf's jaws. In a mysterious tropical rainforest, she climbed a giant tree almost thirty meters high with her bare hands to find a way to safety for her team. On a vast, endless grassland, she moved through the brush as if no one could see her and captured an entire gang of poachers in one strike...

Beneath a sky full of evening light, the fluffy creatures that were so hard to spot walked into the glowing haze with Yunti on their backs.

She was proud and dangerous, like a little cat leaping on a knife's edge, or a wild leopard surviving against all odds. Every movement radiated deadly allure.

Viewers: Ahhh, introduce us! She's my kitty and my leopard, yes! I'm born again!

[Little bonus scene]

Yunti represents Huaguo as a climber at the Olympics. With record-breaking performances, she sweeps the gold medals in bouldering, speed climbing, and lead climbing, becoming famous around the world overnight.

During the post-event interview, a foreign reporter deliberately tries to provoke her: As a woman, you go without makeup every day and have rough skin. Won't your boyfriend start looking at someone else?

Everyone knows her new boyfriend is a brilliant young director who has attracted a great deal of attention in Hollywood.

Before the reporter can finish, a man dressed to the nines, carrying a huge camera, pushes through the media crowd and swings it around.

"What are you barking about? I always make sure to look good. Titi promised she wouldn't cheat on me!"

Core message: If you don't know how to love, you may miss the one you love.