“…….”
It was futile.
Despite following such different paths, why was the final farewell always the same?
“I’m struggling too.”
“…….”
“Did you feel this way as well?”
In the repeated cycles, Orbis grew weary. There were times he thought about not meeting her in this life.
But when he saw life return to Litania’s empty doll-like eyes, his feet were inevitably drawn to her.
‘Husband and wife are one flesh, inseparable.’
He had no choice but to repeat this love eternally.
It was truly like a curse.
[This is the timeline separator]“……Why?”
It felt like the rippling water had risen to her neck.
Litania asked, as if gauging the faintly wavering water shadow.
“Why did you repeat so many lives? Why…….”
“Because you made it so.”
So that when Litania left him and departed this world, he would return to the past to meet her again.
“I, I never wished for such a thing.”
“But that is how it happened.”
“That’s impossible…….”
“Because it’s the name you gave me.”
At those words, Litania recalled. His name.
“Name…….”
Orbis, Reverto, Aeternitas.
The eternally repeating world.
“……Oh my goodness.”
Why hadn’t she realized it? If her name meaning ‘origin’ made her wishes come true, then Orbis’s name must surely contain the truth of this world.
‘Orbis. My world.’
How many times had this man repeated this cycle to meet her again?
Meeting her who didn’t remember him, confessing his love, repeating farewells.
Though worn down over and over, he waited steadfastly in this place for her.
Litania thought she was the only one suffering from his love, but perhaps that was a misconception.
Perhaps it was Orbis who was writhing in agony from this terrible and painful love.
“Have you never thought about breaking it off?”
“Why would I?”
Orbis replied as if he couldn’t understand.
“Something this happy.”
Orbis was happy loving Litania. That was the absolute truth without a shred of falsehood.
Although it was a farewell with a predetermined end, the journey towards that end was always joyful.
Perhaps that’s why he couldn’t forget.
“I thought it would become perfect with repetition, but even a dragon’s memory has limits and mistakes kept increasing. I made several mistakes this time too.”
Inadvertently dropping hints like “this time” when meeting Litania.
Wearing a numb expression while overlapping her with past images.
Drawing her portrait in nightwear but getting the clothes wrong.
“It’s my fault you didn’t feel fully loved.”
If he had been utterly devoted only to the present of this life, she wouldn’t have felt anxious or afraid, at least until she realized the truth.
He wouldn’t have made her worry needlessly about stealing someone else’s happiness.
Orbis deeply regretted that.
“I’m ashamed I couldn’t create more pleasant memories for you.”
“…….”
“Even so, this time I tried not to kill anyone.”
That’s right. Though many were hurt and suffered, at least no lives were lost.
Litania couldn’t even begin to imagine how much restraint that required from a man who could end lives with just his will.
The supreme dragon endured the unpleasantness of insignificant beings trying to deceive him.
He staked everything on loving one woman.
Yes, everything.
“Orbis.”
“Yes, Litania.”
“If I cross over to another world, will you regress to bring me back?”
Orbis silently gazed at her. His blue eyes glimmered faintly.
It was the first time that man who had been so magnificent looked ephemeral.
“I remember what you said.”
He shook his head with a smile as hazy as mist.
“You told me to respect life, didn’t you?”
Orbis. The divine dragon of this world.
If he dies, this world also ends by his wish. And following his name meaning eternal return, he goes back to the past again.
“Litania.”
My love.
My little friend.
My lover.
My bride.
My everything.
“I cannot kill you.”
Orbis cannot kill Litania. Even if she leaves him, he couldn’t do that.
So he can no longer repeat dying and regressing. He doesn’t want to.
Husband and wife are one. If killing Litania is the same as him committing suicide, then taking his own life would be killing her with his own hands.
“So I will no longer die.”
Orbis spoke calmly. Like the star shining most humbly from the highest place.
“Litania, if you cross that door, you will no longer be of this world.”
“…….”
“You will no longer be one with me.”
The door of farewell.
The door of farewell to this world.
And the door of farewell to Orbis.
“You can return to being an ordinary human, Litania.”
“……Is that alright with you, Orbis?”
In front of the shining door, Litania couldn’t bring herself to take a step.
The survival instinct that had been screaming to escape this man until just now strangely faded.
Knowing she shouldn’t speak to him, knowing it could become more dangerous if she showed lingering attachment, yet she couldn’t take her eyes off him.
Why? What she loved was surely an illusion.
What this man loved wasn’t her, and what she loved wasn’t this man.
The being before her was just a pitiful dragon desperately trying to perfectly imitate human love.
‘Why.’
She couldn’t understand why she felt this heartache.
“You’re quite curious, my little friend.”
Though he was too far away to grasp, strangely his words were as clear as if he was speaking right next to her ear.
That was unbearably poignant.
“I’ve thought about it countless times while turning back time. Why won’t you love me? Why is there no happy ending for this love?”
Maybe if he changed his methods, things would be different.
Maybe if he changed himself, things would be different.
If he became closer to human, if he imitated humans more thoroughly, if he gained more of her favor, if he was kinder and gentler to her.
He thought if he cut away all the excess parts and forcibly filled in the lacking parts, surely it would become perfect with repetition.
“I tried everything to complete this love. I deluded myself into thinking I would achieve perfect happiness that way.”
“…….”
“Not seeing the end and turning back, it was bound to be incomplete.”
When Litania died, when she left his side, Orbis took his own life to turn back time. He erased the ‘future’ of the world where the time they loved existed.
In the restarted world, new time flows and new memories accumulate.
The time he and she loved is overwritten by new events, erasing the traces that remained.
The precious memories of the past became as if they never happened.
It’s like rewriting a story from the beginning without completing it.
“So nothing remains, and it’s always left incomplete.”
Orbis turned back time to meet Litania again.
He kept reversing the heart-wrenching pain of parting, waiting to meet her again.
It was time to break free from that cycle of lingering attachment and obsession. It had been foolish years.
“I will not erase the world where this time exists.”
He will no longer erase the time he met and loved her.
He will not make this world full of bittersweet pain into a non-existent world.
Even if he meets her again, what’s the point in reaching out for love that will vanish like wisping smoke?
Rather, maintaining this world without her is the surest way to hold onto even dust-like fragments of happiness.
“Even if we part, the memory of our love remains.”
Yes. If this world isn’t erased, the memories remain. The reminiscences remain.
A world that isn’t overwritten doesn’t disappear. The time they loved becomes an irreplaceable reality etched in the past, even if their love was an illusion.
There is no future for their love.
So shouldn’t at least the past be preserved?
“Litania, I have waited for you for a very long time.”
He endured those painful years waiting to meet her again.
“So now I will live remembering you who has left.”
He lived all that long time waiting, so why shouldn’t he live the remaining time in longing?
“Go, Litania.”
Orbis stood up straight. Then he bowed politely.
There stood not a ferocious and cruel divine dragon, but a man who wanted to show a beautiful final image to the woman he loved.
“I bid you farewell.”
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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