[GB] The Snow and Wind Whisper

The price of living my life over was to make up for three of his regrets.

I fulfilled the first before it even came to pass, so naturally, it didn’t count as one of the three.

For the second, I deliberately waited until he had a fiancée before stepping in to expose her family’s scheme.

For the third, I stayed by his side when he fell into the abyss.

The fourth, and final, regret was that no one truly loved him.

I couldn’t think of anyone else to introduce him to, so I gritted my teeth and put a suggestion in my own mind.

The task was complete. He rolled off the bed, eyes vacant, and crawled toward me. Mud stained his usually immaculate clothes.

He cried and begged me, “I was wrong. I don’t need you to love me anymore. Can you just stay by my side forever instead?”

I couldn’t bear to refuse him. I thought, Fine, I can stay. I’ve got a whole lifetime ahead of me, and it doesn’t matter where I spend it.

Who knew this bastard would dare lock me up? I was so angry that I killed myself on the spot, took another body, and went off to enjoy life in the mortal world.

Later, I heard that the immortal lord had fallen and become a demon lord. He was neglecting sleep and meals as he feverishly practiced divination, searching for a wisp of wandering soul.

No problem. I hadn’t been idle either. I refined and merged with the System that kept assigning me those awful missions. Even if he found me, he wouldn’t be able to do anything to me.

But then he used his life-bound demonic weapon to stab himself more than a dozen times. When he pulled it out, good grief, blood came spurting out in streams. It startled me.

He dropped to his knees with a thud, grabbed the hem of my clothes like he had decades ago, and looked up at me. “I’m about to die, too... You... would you still be willing to take me in?”

[Anthology] Four stories in total, which can be understood as four AUs featuring the same couple.

Each AU is labeled by volume, so you can pick and choose.

Theme: All love finds its way home