He Dares Steal My Wife? Let's See If His Life Is Tough Enough!

On the last day of the May Day holiday, Shao Enci was in his study, rushing to finish his homework. His phone screen lit up, and he glanced down to see a message from Qiu Boye.

[In your senior year, someone will kill Lu Xiaoxiao. You have to be careful.]

Shao Enci frowned, picked up his phone, and replied without taking it seriously: [Are you off your meds?]

Cursing the person he liked to die was taking things a little too far.

A few seconds later, his phone vibrated again.

[I've been reborn, brother. You have to believe me!!!]

[Also, since you like her, hurry up and make a move. Don't let yourself have regrets in this life too.]

Shao Enci stared at the screen for two seconds, then typed a few words: [Busy. Don't bother me.]

Meanwhile, Qiu Boye sat in his car. Having just sent the messages, he glanced down at his phone screen and locked it again.

Without waiting for Shao Enci to reply, he made a call.

"Hello? Young Master?" Butler Li's voice came through the receiver, tinged with surprise.

"Find the marriage agreement Grandpa and the Meng Family made when we were children. I'm coming back to get it right now."

Butler Li was clearly stunned. "Young Master, just the day before yesterday, you said you wanted to break off the engagement with the Meng Family. Now that the old master has finally agreed, why are you..."

"Butler Li," Qiu Boye interrupted, "go tell my grandpa right now that I'm not breaking off the engagement. I'm marrying Meng Yuan. Get it done, quickly."

"Ah... all right, I'll go right away."

After hanging up, Qiu Boye stepped on the gas. The black sports car pulled onto the main road in the night, heading toward the Qiu Family's old residence in Hong Kong City.

Outside the window, neon lights flashed past, frame by frame.

He held the steering wheel with one hand, his gaze fixed on the distance.

Half an hour ago, he had been reborn.

At twenty-five, he had returned to the age of nineteen.

The thought had circled through his head several times. He tried to swallow it down like a piece of information, but he couldn't.

He raised a hand to press his temples, his light brown eyes on the road ahead, and remembered something else.

At this point in his previous life, he had never even considered marrying Meng Yuan.

When he heard that she and He Xi were together, he had immediately told his grandpa to break off the engagement.

Afterward, he stayed abroad, spending his nights in revelry and his days in careless indulgence, convinced he would never fall for anyone in his life.

A red light appeared ahead. Qiu Boye slowly pressed the brake and tapped his finger lightly against the steering wheel.

Later, Meng Yuan and He Xi broke up, and his grandpa called to say that the girl was on her own now. If he was ready to settle down, he should come back and try again with her.

He had been holding a wineglass at the time. He laughed into the phone and said, "Grandpa, are you kidding? I haven't had enough fun yet."

The light turned green. Qiu Boye released the brake, and the car drove into the night.

Another year passed in his previous life, and he returned to the country for Shao Enci.

By then, the girl Shao Enci liked had been killed. He knelt before her gravestone, looking as though he had shattered.

Qiu Boye had never imagined that a man who usually seemed so cold and heartless could be so pure in his devotion that he had attempted suicide several times over a girl who hated him.

That same year, Han Siyu, the Han Family's illegitimate son, also died, sacrificing his life for love of a girl. That girl was Lu Xiaoxiao, Meng Yuan's close friend and the girl Shao Enci had secretly loved for years.

Qiu Boye turned the steering wheel and drove onto a darker road.

Later still, when he was twenty-four, he returned from abroad and happened to save Old Master Meng. The old man had suffered a cerebral infarction and collapsed by the roadside. Qiu Boye helped him up and called an ambulance. On his deathbed, Old Master Meng took Meng Yuan's hand and told her to marry him.

He had sworn to his buddies that he would never marry a woman who had cheated on him.

But in the end, he married her anyway.

Meng Yuan sat across from him in a white coat, discussing a marriage alliance with him.

He crossed his legs and said with a careless air, "As long as Miss Meng doesn't mind me cheating during our marriage, I'm willing to marry you."

He thought she would leave in anger, but she merely glanced at him and said, "All right."

Qiu Boye's fingers tightened slightly around the steering wheel.

After they married, she made him breakfast every morning and stood in the entryway to straighten his tie when he went out. He never said anything, but every day before leaving, he deliberately lingered in the entryway for a while, waiting for her to come over.

Once, she woke with a start in the middle of the night for several days in a row, sitting up in bed without a word. He asked what was wrong, and she said she didn't remember, but it seemed she had dreamed of a friend. He didn't press her, only reached out and drew her into his arms, saying, "It's all right. I'm here."

She held on to the hem of his clothes for a long time.

Only then did he learn that the spoiled, willful young miss could also secretly wipe away tears.

After he gradually fell in love with her, he would grow jealous of the person in her heart and bully her fiercely every night, biting her earlobe and saying, "Baby, say you love me most. If you think about that damned man again, I'll make you cry."

She never lied, so every time, she simply turned her head away and didn't answer.

One day, He Xi asked her to meet him.

He was in a meeting when his assistant told him about it, and he immediately called her.

When the call connected, she said, "I'll be back later."

He was sitting by a window on the thirty-sixth floor, one leg hanging outside. "If you don't come back right now, believe it or not, I'll jump from the thirty-sixth floor."

There was silence on the other end for a moment, then a man's voice came through. "Calm down."

It was He Xi.

When Qiu Boye saw his face appear on the screen, he completely exploded. "He Xi, don't think I don't know. A year ago, when Yuanbao and I had our wedding, you were going to come and snatch her away. Your sister stopped you with the child. All these years, you've never given up on her..."

He was so worked up that he forgot he was sitting on the windowsill.

His body tipped backward, and before his fingers could reach the window frame, he fell out.

The wind roared in his ears. Even as he died, he never heard Meng Yuan say with her own lips that she loved him.

When he opened his eyes again, he was nineteen.

It was the last day of the May Day holiday, and a group of friends had gathered to see him off.

In the private room, someone came over with a wineglass and said with a smile, "That girl Meng Yuan has fair skin and a beautiful face. If you'd married her sooner, you wouldn't have let that He Family brat get the better of you."

In his previous life, he probably would have said, "Let him have her. What, you think I can't find another woman?"

But this time, Qiu Boye said nothing.

He stood up and smashed the glass of wine onto the floor.

Shards of glass scattered everywhere. The private room fell silent in an instant, and everyone looked at him.

"Young Master Qiu, what's wrong?"

Qiu Boye clenched his fists, veins bulging on the backs of his hands. Through gritted teeth, he said coldly, "He Xi is a fucking beast. He dares steal my wife? Let's see if his life is tough enough."

With that, he turned and walked out of the private room. The people left behind looked at one another, and none dared chase after him.

He went to the underground parking lot, got into the driver's seat, and called his eldest brother. "Brother, I don't want to go back to the United States. Arrange for me to study at a university here."

After hanging up, he picked up his phone again and glanced at his chat with Shao Enci.

He leaned back in his seat and suddenly felt that something wasn't quite right.

His mind was filled with many scenes that hadn't been there in his previous life.

He remembered some of them clearly, yet they had never happened in his previous life.

For example, that time at the cinema, when Shao Enci had called him over to watch someone confess to Meng Yuan. He remembered that he had never been to that screening room in his previous life.

Qiu Boye sped along, staring at the night outside the car window, and asked himself a question.

Is this a parallel world, or is something wrong with my memories?

Author's note: I actually came up with Qiu Boye and Meng Yuan as a couple before Lu Xiaoxiao and Shao Enci. I originally wanted to start with their story, but then I got caught up in Lu Xiaoxiao and Shao Enci's interesting storyline, haha.

As for why I included Qiu Boye's rebirth storyline, it was to better explain many details of what happened in the previous life. The secondary couple won't have too much of a storyline; the main focus will be on the female lead, Lu Xiaoxiao.

The second male and female leads were both unchaste in their previous lives, but both are chaste in this life. I originally wanted Qiu Boye to be pure in body and mind, but with his cynical, carefree personality and all the time he spent abroad, it would be hard for him to stay chaste unless he were impotent ( ･᷄д･᷅ )

Another spoiler: Qiu Boye will become Lu Xiaoxiao's male best friend later on, hehe, and her relationship strategist.

Han Siyu: So when do I get to appear?

Shao Enci: When Xiaoxiao and I get married, you can show up and give us a wedding gift.

Han Siyu: ?