Chapter 1 Rebirth?

This story is purely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental.

“Mrs. Lu, hold on a little longer Commander Lu is already on his way, he’ll be here soon.”

Jiang Yi’s pupils began to lose focus. A faint smile tugged at the corners of her lips.

“No need. There’s nothing left to say to him.”

By her side lay a document a divorce agreement.

She was already in her fifties. It was time to give him his freedom, to let him and that woman be together openly and rightfully.

“From today on, I am no longer Mrs. Lu.”

As soon as she finished speaking .

Beeeep.

The heart monitor emitted a sharp, continuous tone.

“The patient’s heart has stopped!”

“Begin CPR immediately. Get the ventilator, the defibrillator…”

“No response.”

“Increase the compression depth!”

“Commander Lu is here!” someone shouted in alarm.

But it was already too late.

“Comrade? Comrade, are you alright?”

“Oh no, you hit someone!”

The tractor driver broke into a cold sweat. If he’d known, he never would have driven drunk.

A few elderly women passing by scolded him while helping the fallen woman and child up.

Jiang Yi: Who am I? Where am I? What just happened?

Didn’t I die?

“Mommy, Mommy, I’m scared…”

Looking at the child in her arms, Jiang Yi instantly burst into tears.

“Little Guoshi?”

This isn’t a dream, is it?

Her little Guoshi had died when he was five.

During a heavy rainstorm in 1987, Little Guoshi and Sun Ye fell into the river at the same time. Her husband, the regiment commander Lu Yunxiao, immediately jumped in to save Sun Ye the son of a comrade’s widow.

Little Guoshi was swept away by the current, his life forever frozen on that day.

Jiang Yi was heartbroken. Later, when Lu Yunxiao was transferred to the Northern War Zone, she didn’t follow him. She stayed behind in the military compound, living nearly thirty more years.

Thirty years spent enduring alongside Lu Yunxiao until she died in sorrow.

Before she died, she donated all her assets to children in remote mountain areas and signed the divorce papers, finally deciding to set Lu Yunxiao free.

But this… what was happening now?

The pain from her backside made her entire body tense up.

Could it be… she was reborn?

She stared, wide-eyed, at the little boy in her arms his round eyes, pouty mouth, so alive and real. Then she looked at the shocked old ladies around her and pinched her philtrum hard.

“Hiss”

The scene didn’t disappear!

“Did she get knocked silly?” The tractor driver’s heart sank. I’m finished  even selling my tractor won’t cover this.

Suddenly, a tall man pushed through the crowd and stepped into her sight.

“Jiang Yi, are you insane? Why were you running so fast with the child?”

He snatched Little Guoshi from her arms and glared fiercely at her.

“Lu Yunxiao!” Jiang Yi’s eyes widened.

The man before her was her husband, Lu Yunxiao.

Right now, his hair was jet black, untouched by age, his sharp brows and bright eyes brimming with youthful vigor, clad in a green military uniform  the very picture of a man in his prime, in his twenties.

Jiang Yi looked down at herself: a blue cotton jacket, a plaid shirt, black corduroy pants, her hands fair and smooth, not a single wrinkle.

Ha… haha… She suddenly burst out laughing.

She really was back!

While Lu Yunxiao was still stunned, Jiang Yi grabbed Little Guoshi back and hugged him tightly.

This time, no one will take Little Guoshi from her not even Heaven itself.

Lu Yunxiao frowned at her manic look. “Did you hit your head? Let me check your injuries.”

Jiang Yi dodged his hand. “Yes. I must have been stupid to marry you back then.”

Now, she was clearer than ever.

The first thing she’d do now was divorce him and leave with Little Guoshi.

Lu Yunxiao’s hand paused in mid-air, his face blank.

Just then, a woman squeezed through the crowd.

“Jiang Yi, are you and Little Guoshi alright? I asked around  it was Little Ye’s fault. He shouldn’t have taken Little Guoshi’s top, making you angry and run out. I apologize on his behalf.”

“Su Wanqing!” Jiang Yi’s body trembled again.

This woman the one who had come between her and Lu Yunxiao for over thirty years!