Honkai: Star Rail : After My Death, Their Madness Begins
First Life: Qi Zhimu was Ruan Mei's student.
"You have completed your training. Leave. Before my research is finished, I will not see you again."
"Yes... Teacher..."
Qi Zhimu left alone but did not go far, choosing to live in seclusion nearby. From then on, he only sent plum blossom wine every year and never disturbed her. He grew old and died without ever waiting for Ruan Mei to end her forbidden research.
Long after, when Ruan Mei finally walked out of her lab and learned of Qi Zhimu's death, she suddenly realized—
His shadow was everywhere in her world...
Only by uncovering the past did she discover that she had built it all with her own hands, only to bury it all as well.
Second Life: Qi Zhimu was Jingliu's master.
"Master, why have you never been willing to give me a single glance?"
"Master, why is there no place for me in the softest part of your heart?"
She grew closer day by day, and also grew more desperate, gradually blackening.
Only when she witnessed Qi Zhimu's death did she understand—
The softest part of her master's heart had always been her.
"Hehehe... Master, you have deceived your disciple so cruelly..."
Third Life...
Qi Zhimu respected the laws of reincarnation and faced each death with equanimity.
Born upright, dying peacefully—carrying no obsessions, stained by no worldly sorrow.
Only... those women, burning with regret and lifelong remorse, did not see it that way.
[Multiple female leads, do not read if you dislike this trope]
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