My Wife and I Were Reborn Before Our Engagement Was Broken

A younger guy who's all smiles on the surface, but a sensitive, gloomy, damp little ghost × A gentle big sister who trains people without even realizing it Lu Xingze transmigrates into an unfamiliar era and discovers he's been handed the classic overpowered hero's broken-engagement plot. At his first glimpse of his fiancée, he notices how impossibly tall the Yun family's buildings are, casting her in unending shadow. Silent, old-fashioned, and lifeless, his fiancée is just like this ancient, decaying family. Lu Xingze has always kept his distance from people like that. The words to break off the engagement are on the tip of his tongue. But the instant he meets Yun Shuangyue's eyes, he thinks she seems to be asking for help. In the end, Lu Xingze and Yun Shuangyue get married. Yun Shuangyue doesn't really know how to feel about marrying Lu Xingze, who's so much younger than her. He's bold and unconventional, often muttering things she can't understand, and in recent years his fame has been growing in the cultivation world. A young man in springtime robes, smiling at his own brilliance, untouched by worry. She admires him and envies him, as if she can glimpse in him the girl she once dreamed of becoming. And because she's older, she indulges and accommodates him in every way. But the longer they spend together, the more Yun Shuangyue notices the genuine emotions Lu Xingze sometimes conceals. He'd rather go adventuring outside than stay with the Yun family. And rather than spend time alone with her, he seems to prefer making friends and drinking with them. He pulls Yun Shuangyue's sleeve over his face and says in a muffled voice, “If we weren't engaged, we'd be great friends.” When Yun Shuangyue wakes up and finds herself back before the engagement was broken off, she's actually relieved. She thinks about the future she knows and Lu Xingze's ambitions, about her family's schemes and their ugliness. Perhaps... perhaps this time she should let go and help Lu Xingze pursue what he wants. She's already trapped by her family. She shouldn't become a cage for someone else. The engagement is called off with unbelievable ease. At first, Lu Xingze is as happy as Yun Shuangyue expected. But... Yun Shuangyue is confused. Why does Lu Xingze end up crying? “Only later does Lu Xingze belatedly realize that they never had to say the words ‘let's part.’ Perhaps the moment came on some sunny afternoon, when the smile disappeared from her eyes as she looked at him.” “In a daze, he understands that when fate tears open a crack in their warmth, it is so stingy that it won't even grant them the sound of dust settling.” Both are reborn; both are virgins. Not a traditional groveling-for-forgiveness story, not a strong-female-lead story, and not plot-driven. A self-indulgent story about a couple, told through alternating perspectives. Please read the content warnings in the author's note in Chapter One. Theme: Knowing your true self