Rebirth in 2006: Protecting the Ice Queen at My Desk

Falsely accused of theft by his entire class and nearly driven to drop out in 2006, Lu Chengfeng always believed Hu Mengyao was the one who pulled him from the abyss. Out of misplaced gratitude, he spent decades showering her with wealth and security, only to discover the brutal truth at age fifty-two: the person who risked everything to vouch for his innocence was actually Bai Yueru, the school's most isolated "ice queen" campus belle. Hu Mengyao was merely a manipulative fraud who stole the credit while slandering him behind his back. Even worse, the gentle girl who secretly shared her meager warmth despite her own extreme poverty had met a tragic, untimely death at eighteen. Given a second chance at life, Chengfeng opens his eyes on the eve of his senior year of high school—just thirty minutes before disaster strikes Bai Yueru. As she pushes open the glass door of his family's convenience store with red-rimmed eyes to timidly ask for a part-time job, Chengfeng rejects his tragic past entirely. With fierce determination, he pulls down the rolling metal shutter, locking out the approaching tragedy and the toxic tormentors. Pinning the bewildered ice queen against the wall with an overbearing, protective attitude, he thrusts an employment contract before her. "Want to work? Sign it. From now on, you're strictly my personal assistant." As the startled girl looks up like a trapped fawn, a confident smirk touches his lips: "Don't complain about the terms. Once you're on my ship, you're never getting off."