Yu's Reincarnation Stories: The Seven Lifetimes | The Second Lifetime

By then, Xiaojin had already signed the agreement for the third time, officially becoming Ajiu's true assistant. From the age of twenty onward, he stopped aging altogether.

Every Death God was assigned a specific region to guide departed souls, and even relocation required permission from the higher authorities. One day, Ajiu and Xiaojin arrived at a home to guide the soul of an elderly man. The old man's daughter-in-law, Shanmei, welcomed them. The moment Ajiu looked into her eyes, he froze. A searing pain shot through Shanmei's head as long-forgotten memories burst forth, leading her to remember him. "Ajiu..."

Too late... she had remembered him far too late. She was already a married woman in her forties. Trembling, she reached out, longing to embrace the man she had always loved, yet stopped with her hands suspended in midair, restrained by propriety. "What's wrong, Shanmei?" her husband, Adong, asked as he hurried over. Through tears, she shook her head. "Why...? Why would Heaven arrange things this way...?"

Unable to bear the flood of memories, Shanmei fainted. Her family assumed she had been overwhelmed by the grief of her father-in-law's passing. "Sir, it's time to go," Ajiu said softly as he patted the old man's shoulder. At once, the old man's soul separated from his body. "My lord... what about my mother?" Xiaojin asked anxiously, looking at Shanmei, who had once been Meihao in her previous life. Ajiu hardened his heart and clenched his jaw. "Her lifespan has not yet come to an end. She'll wake up soon."

The return of her memories left Shanmei in constant torment. She still loved Ajiu just as deeply as she always had. Nothing had changed. Yet the Death God's rejection, combined with the fact that she was now a married woman, filled her with unbearable anguish. Why couldn't she have remembered sooner? If she had remembered before her marriage, she would have loved him without hesitation. But why... why did she remember only now?