To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Lin Qingping is dead.

She died at the age of 68.

She was sick, but she could have survived; it was her good nephew who pulled out her oxygen tube.

She was the eldest child in her family and spent her whole life helping her maternal family and supporting her younger brother.

Her own mother coaxed her, asking her to buy houses and cars for her younger brother, nephews, and nieces; she coaxed her to make a will, leaving all her property to her brother and nephews; she coaxed her by saying that when she got old, her brother and nephews would take care of her.

However, when she was sick, she not only didn't receive a hot meal from her brother and nephew, but her good nephew also pulled out her oxygen tube.

At that time, the doctor said that her illness was not incurable, but it would cost money.

Her good nephew couldn't wait any longer and came to her private hospital room at night to remove her oxygen tube.

She woke up feeling unwell and tried to call the doctor, but her nephew covered her mouth.

Her nephew revealed a ferocious expression, "Aunt, you're almost 70 years old. Everyone's going to die eventually, so why waste money? You should know that every day you lie in the hospital, it's my money being wasted! All of it!"

A tear slid down her cheek...

When asked if she had any regrets in her life, she replied...

Yes, I have……

Her biggest regret was not treating him well—her husband Gu Juncheng, the man who sacrificed himself so early, and for many, many years afterward, she never met anyone as good as him again…

Her nephew's ferocious face gradually blurred before her eyes, and in the last moment before he breathed his last, all she could see was his dark and rugged face.

"Gu Juncheng..." The name flashed through her mind before she completely lost consciousness.

In that instant, the pain of regret filled her entire heart.

Gu Juncheng, if I could do it all over again, I would never have treated you like this...

However, Lin Qingping never expected that everything could actually start over.

She lay on the bed in Gu Juncheng's old house, looking at the window with the double happiness character pasted on it under the lamplight, feeling uneasy.

She traveled back 48 years to when she was 20 years old.

That year, her mother accepted 100 yuan as a bride price from the Gu family and forced her to marry into the Gu family.

She married into the family unwillingly, and she couldn't stand her husband, Gu Juncheng, the second son of the Gu family.

She disliked his dark skin, disliked that he was seven or eight years older than her, disliked that he was rough and uncivilized when he was in the army, disliked that he had a child with him, disliked that he lived too far away and left everything to her, including the child...

She caused chaos and disorder in the Gu family, even moving all of their belongings to her parents' home.

A few years later, Gu Juncheng sacrificed his life.

Despite what she did, Gu Juncheng still left a message in his suicide note: all the compensation money should be left to her, and he apologized for wasting these years of her youth...

She was later able to open restaurants, expanding from a small county town to the city, and then to a big city. The compensation he received at the cost of his life was her start-up capital...

Lin Qingping lay in bed, her thoughts in turmoil. It was already dark, but Gu Juncheng had yet to come into the room.

Six months ago, she reluctantly married Gu Juncheng. In order to avoid doing "that" with Gu Juncheng on their wedding night, she deliberately made herself sick with a high fever in the dead of winter. The next day, Gu Juncheng returned to his unit due to an emergency mission, so nothing had happened between them yet.

Gu Juncheng was a very smart man. She couldn't hide her thoughts from him at all. Knowing that she was unwilling, he made an excuse to sleep in a separate room from her this time when he came home to visit relatives in his previous life.

Will he do the same thing in this life?

She did the math in her mind and realized that only four years remained until his sacrifice.

If this is the inevitable ending for her, then she will make sure to spend these next few years with him, no matter what.

After much deliberation, she made up her mind and rushed out.

Gu Juncheng was taking a shower.

she knows!

She heard the sound of rushing water in the shower room next to the pigsty.

She took a deep breath to bolster her courage, then rushed forward and pushed open the crooked, unguarded door.

Then, her eyes widened.

She had been married to him her whole life and never knew he had such a great physique!

Although he has dark skin, he's a soldier, okay?

That healthy masculinity, that perfect muscle definition—he's practically a sculpture! She must have been blind in her past life to reject him!

Her gaze was fixed on him, following the water droplets rolling down his skin!

At this moment, she is the very essence of a little water droplet!

However, Gu Juncheng quickly wrapped himself in a towel.

"Get out!" came a cold rebuke, an order given to her.

"I...I came to get your clothes!" She blushed uncontrollably, grabbed his clothes, and fled in a panic. As she left, her arm bumped into the door frame, causing her a sharp pain.

Back in her room, her heart was still pounding, and all she could see were tiny water droplets rolling around on his bronze skin.

She let out a soft moan and slipped into the covers, her arm throbbing with pain once more.

She secretly lamented to herself, "Male beauty really does lead one astray!"

She completely forgot about her injured arm from this morning!

In the morning, she encountered some hooligans from the village in the mountains. They tried to grope her, and when she tried to escape, she tripped and fell, cutting a large patch on her arm.

The bleeding from the wound had already stopped, but after she bumped into it twice, it started bleeding again.

She hissed in pain, but then she heard the door open.

He is back!

She quickly lay down.

As soon as the door opened, he came in, wearing nothing but an old cloth wrapped around himself.

Lin Qingping looked at the piece of cloth and felt inexplicably disappointed.

He had a dark expression on his face when he saw his clothes on the table.

“You took my clean clothes!” he said coldly.

Lin Qingping: ...

At that moment, my mind and eyes were in complete chaos; I couldn't care less whether it was clean or dirty! It was just an excuse!

But we can't let him be in the right!

"Who...who told you to yell at me? When you yell at me, I...I..." She choked on her words, her eyes welling up with tears, looking extremely aggrieved.

Gu Juncheng: ...

Gu Juncheng was speechless for a moment, then grabbed his clothes and went out again.

When he returned, he was already wearing pants and a vest, a military green vest, with his arms and shoulders exposed, and residual water droplets trickling down his muscles...

Lin Qingping was so engrossed in watching him that she only snapped back to reality when he stood by her bedside.

He looked at her, his eyes slightly narrowed, as if he were thinking.

Her breath caught in her throat.

This never happened in my past life!

The air was suddenly filled with damp moisture, making it hard to breathe.

"You... ah—" She was about to speak when she felt her hand being pulled up.

She exclaimed.

"Does it hurt?" he suddenly asked.

The sudden, deep sound pressing down on her throat interrupted her chaotic thoughts.