“Gabriella, wake up quickly!”
The cicadas chirped incessantly, and my body was violently shaken by
someone.
I endured the stabbing pain in my temple, suddenly opened my eyes, only to find myself staring fixedly at the familiar university dormitory.
There was Alicia lying on the bed, calling me to get up.
I was suddenly startled.
What’s going on? Wasn’t I dead?
Is this a hallucination before death?
Alicia stared at me in confusion and urged, “Gabriella, are you out of your mind? Didn’t you have plans to have a birthday dinner with Liam today? It’s already ten o’clock at night.”
I was stunned, looking at the time on the alarm clock –
May 19, 2014.
This was when I finally realized it wasn’t a hallucination, but that I had been reborn.
On Liam’s twentieth birthday, he returned.
At that time, I had not been diagnosed with bone cancer yet. These few years were the happiest time of my life.
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At Alicia’s urging, I got up, changed my clothes, and hurried to the restaurant where we had agreed to meet.
I was already three hours late.
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Liam sat on the bench outside the restaurant, his shadow stretched long by the moonlight. When he looked up at me, the light in his eyes shimmered like a pool of green light.
“Gabriella, you were late.”
In the year of our reunion, all I saw in his eyes was deep disgust and lingering hatred.
Facing such intense gaze once again at this moment, my breath suddenly caught.
As their eyes met, he suddenly stood up.
The nearly six–foot tall figure leaned against my shoulder like this.
“My birthday will be over in another half an hour.”
At that moment, a lump formed in my throat.
Can I be reborn once, and then go through the pain of cancer again? Can I make Liam hate me again?
“Sorry, I said in astonishment.”
He looked at her expectantly and asked, “Gabriella, where is my gift?”
I was caught off guard.
Actually, I forgot about his 20th birthday because I was too busy with my part–time job, so I didn’t have time to prepare for it.
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At that moment, my expression froze: “Would you like to eat at a street food stall?”
“I will prepare carefully for you next year.”
I had just been reborn and hadn’t fully recovered yet. I didn’t know how to face him at this moment.
20–year–old Liam was completely infatuated with me.
He had never done anything wrong. Am I supposed to vent my complaints about thirty–year–old Liam on him?
What did 30–year–old Liam do wrong again?
From his perspective, pouring out his whole heart only resulted in a cliff- like breakup in the end.
There wasn’t even an explanation.
I think, if it were me, I would probably complain too.
Even if I were to be reborn, my genes would not change. Bone cancer is hereditary.
So I was diagnosed with cancer when I was 22 years old.
I don’t understand what I did wrong.
Such a miserable life had to be repeated again.
I couldn’t be so selfish, so selfish as to drag Liam into my inevitable demise.
Whenever I think about his affectionate moments with Sandra, I feel a sharp pain in my heart.
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But my
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fate had already been determined, I couldn’t ask for too much, I could only choose to let go.
Just then, Liam’s phone suddenly vibrated.
He opened his phone without any guard, it was an MMS from Sandra.
He clicked on it and saw that it was a photo.
In the photo, Sandra was wearing a sailor suit that just covered the triangle area, posing coquettishly.
Liam was nervous, shaking so much that he couldn’t hold the phone steady.
He explained to me in a hurry and panic, “Gabriella, I have blocked numerous numbers of her.”
“Sandra was like a piece of dogged adhesive plaster that I couldn’t shake off no matter how hard I tried. I said some harsh words, and I even threw away the breakfast she brought me right in front of her.”
“I didn’t know what else to do, Gabriella…”
A sudden bitterness arose in my heart.
Liam, do you know that the band–aid you have in your mouth now will occupy your heart in the future.
I would become your wife, I would become the mother of your children, I would accompany you year after
year.
I suddenly choked in my throat.
If it was destined that we couldn’t be together, then we shouldn’t have wasted our time.
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So, I interrupted him: “Liam, let’s break up.”
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