Rebirth: Loved Too Late

"In her first life, he was a King who died for her. In this life, he’s a nobody—and she’s the one holding the crown." Li Meilin died in a crown-shattering explosion, holding the hand of the only man who stayed in the darkness with her: Xie Zihan. Betrayed by her father, drugged by her step-mother, and sold to the underworld by her sister, she spent a year in hell before fire consumed her. Now, she is back. Reborn on the day of her eighteenth birthday, Meilin doesn't just wake up; she wakes up with a vengeance. With the help of her loyal Mother Wu, she turns her engagement ceremony into a graveyard for her family’s reputation. But her mission isn't just revenge. She has a debt to pay. Tracking down the "Ghost" of the underworld, she finds Xie Zihan. But he isn't the cold Mafia King of her memories. He is a genius student living in a basement, working three jobs to pay for his mother’s surgery, and hiding his world-class coding talents from a father who wants to drag him into the abyss. The roles have flipped. Meilin founds Lin Capital and Shenghua Biotech, becoming the "Bigshot" the city fears. She "hires" Zihan, pulling him into her orbit to protect him from the Mafia hunt he doesn't know is coming. She provides the medicine. She provides the technology. She provides the shield. While the world mocks her for "keeping" a poor student, they don't see the silent war she’s fighting. Behind closed doors, she is raising the heir to two empires. To the public, he is her employee. To her, he is the man she will burn the world for. The step-sister sneers: "You’re a CEO, Meilin. Why waste your time on a delivery boy?" Meilin’s eyes turn ice-cold as she adjusts Zihan’s collar: "Because this 'delivery boy' is the only person who deserves to sit on the throne next to me." She survived the fire once. This time, she is the flame.