Please Don't Make Me Yours in This Life

At twenty-five, Anjilong is the much-anticipated third-generation heir to an Italian business dynasty. While studying abroad in Shanghai, he meets thirty-four-year-old Nicole at a birthday party. She is a single mother who has been through two failed marriages and is raising two sons on her own. He falls for her at first sight, but she no longer believes that fiery love can withstand the grind of everyday life. Their nine-year age gap, her two children, life between countries, and his family’s inheritance all drive Nicole to leave time and again. Anjilong must prove that he wants more than a fleeting romance, and is ready to shoulder life’s burdens with her. When an ancient ring and a letter delayed by hundreds of years resurface, the two discover this isn’t their first meeting. Along the Silk Road during the Yuan dynasty, a foreign merchant named Anjelo once fell in love with Ouyang Lingyi, the betrothed daughter of an official. In that life, status, misunderstandings, and self-sacrifice kept them apart. Nicole’s two former husbands had also long been entangled in this bond spanning three lifetimes. In their first life, they never had the chance to understand each other. In their second, they fell in love but could not stay together. In their third, with fate placing the choice in their hands once more, can they stop sacrificing themselves in the name of love and finally reach each other?