《MY DAZZLING NEW LIFE WITH MY NEW HUSBAND》

Xue Guiying dies by his own hand.

Born an illegitimate Omega into a family that treated him as a burden and a bargaining chip, he spent his first life enduring every cruelty they had to offer. When they finally found a use for him, it was the worst possible one: an arranged marriage to a man who broke him completely over five years. Abused, assaulted, and stripped of all dignity, Guiying chose the only exit he believed was left to him.

Then he wakes up five years earlier, whole in body if not in spirit, with the full weight of everything he remembers.

Before his family can lock him into the same fate, Guiying walks into a civil affairs bureau and marries the first willing stranger he finds. That stranger turns out to be Liu Liuxian, scion of the most powerful family in China and a top-class Alpha who is, apparently, just as eager to escape an arranged marriage of his own.

What follows is a marriage neither of them planned and both of them slowly begin to want.

Behind Liuxian's cold exterior is a man of quiet, unexpected gentleness. For Guiying, learning to receive warmth without flinching is its own kind of battle. He did not come back to fall in love. He came back to win. Yet somehow, both things begin to happen at once.

Because while Guiying is falling, he is also methodically dismantling everyone who destroyed his first life. And his former husband, unwilling to accept Guiying's new life, is making that task considerably more dangerous.

In the end, every person who wronged Xue Guiying meets the ruin they deserve, and he finds himself standing in a life that is finally, entirely his own, with a man beside him who chose him back.

This time, he does not have to die to be free.

Guiying looked at his phone on the counter beside the mirror as Lin Yansu touched up between sequences.


Three missed calls, all within the last ten minutes, and a message that said simply:


Guiying picked up the phone and typed: 'I'm fine. Still shooting. I'll call when I'm done.'


The reply came in under thirty seconds.


Then he looked at the studio floor, at Shao Mingye resetting the lighting, at Lin Yansu coming toward him with the next look, at Jiang Wenxi watching him with that new expression on her face.


He typed: 'Liuxian. I'm fine. Two hours.'


A pause, longer than the previous ones.


Just two words that meant he'd heard, he wasn't happy about it, and he was going to have a great deal to say when those two hours were up.


Guiying set the phone down and went back to work.


Chapter 121 - WHAT A FIRST DAY