Jiang Che remembered that he had awakened the memories of his past life when he was ten years old.
Before turning ten, he had merely been an innocent child, as mischievous as any of his peers.
The only thing that stood out was his looks. He had been an adorable little boy everyone loved, especially adults.
When he was nine, he attended a banquet with his parents. Because of his cute appearance, he had caught Lu Xinyi's eye.
At the time, Lu Xinyi had just turned fifteen. Youthful and beautiful, she was at an age when she was still hazy about love between men and women.
At the banquet, she coaxed and tricked him into stealing his first kiss, even spouting nonsense about marrying him someday.
They met again when he was fifteen.
On his way home from school, Jiang Che happened upon a woman drowning in a river. Without hesitation, he jumped in, pulled her ashore, and gave her CPR.
Honestly, Jiang Che had not recognized that the drowning woman was Lu Xinyi, the girl who had stolen a kiss from him as a child. Girls changed greatly as they grew up, and six years had passed. Their lives had not intersected at all in the meantime.
After the CPR, Lu Xinyi had already regained consciousness. Jiang Che assumed she had tried to take her own life on impulse. As an exemplary high school student, he naturally offered her plenty of kind advice. He even casually gave her the crystal necklace he had bought on the way home from school for Xixi.
Lu Xinyi gladly accepted it and said more nonsense about never forgetting him. Clearly, she had already recognized him.
He had been in a hurry to get home for dinner and play with silly Xixi, so he