Old Wounds, New Growth

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“After my wife’s death, I unexpectedly returned to the time when he secretly loved me, and I was unaware.”

Li Chishu has attempted su*cide numerous times over the years, and I have consistently been there to pull him back from the gates of hell.

However, I never anticipated his determination to leave this world would be so strong. One night, when I wasn’t keeping a close eye on him, he finally jumped from the building.

I wasn’t able to pull him back in time, so I could only sleep at his funeral.

When I woke up, the surroundings were filled with noise.

I found myself standing in the school building from ten years ago, and someone from the next class informed me that Li Chishu was having a physical education class on the sports ground.

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OWNG
旧故新长
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Beoma
New Beoma rated it
July 28, 2025
Status: Completed
First I was searching for a simple novel with not any heavy plot. Then saw this & started right away...... I thought it would be a fluffy novel with lots of love..... It was indeed full of love but which was heart wrenching.....

I never thought that such a small novel like this could be so beautifully written. I love how they loved each other. I started crying from very first chapter. Even before I got a proper hold of the plot I knew I was crying ugly. I literally cried... more>> in every line. I can say I've never suffered from the loneliness.... Even the slightest which were mentioned but what I felt by reading it was greater. While reading, I felt it's me who's suffering. The author did a perfect job with the characters. I felt the desperation of Shen Baoshan.... Felt the despair of Li Chishu... I felt the need to heal eachother from them. It's true that everyone should be the Shen Baoshan in their life.

The translation was awesome too. It felt so accurate as those were able to convey the actual emotions. I never thought that with so little chapters a novel can be so beautiful. It's almost like the feeling of spending a lifetime watching & understanding their love for eachother as I remained their fairy godmother.... I felt so content. I hope if I have a son in the future I will surely raise him like Shen Baoshan. Li Chishu, such a dear child he is. As the book was solely from the ML's pov, it showed how hard he can yearn for his beloved. He wasn't presented as obsessed but soaked in yearning and was willing to do anything for his beloved. He was desperate for Li Chishu. Which was the most lovely, that at the moment of his realising of his rebirth, he didn't panicked but ran straight to find li Chishu. That man was like a starving beast for him. He noticed everything, he was ready to give everything as he did so. They truly lived for eachother. It was the feeling of almost drowning but the very moment you got pulled ashore as the fresh wind poured in your lungs. The burning feeling of your life being saved.

I'm utterly frustrated that my favourite authors have so limited novels T - T. My dears, you can't just snatch the heaven from me after giving me the taste! I want more! No.... I want all!

I'll always hold them & their story dear to me.

Wish the author the best wishes 💙 <<less
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oceanofstardust
oceanofstardust rated it
October 28, 2023
Status: --
I was in a very depressive mood and wanted to read something fluffy to feel at ease. But look at me, I found this little treasure which is equally fluffy and full of sadness! I thank the translator for picking up this story. Even though I couldn't wait and finished it with mtl! Due to my ashen mood, my review might feel biased to some of the future reader, but it actually helped me to feel a lot better about myself. Currently I'm living a very lonely life, secretly wanting... more>> to have someone to come and take care of me but rejecting people's advances at the same time because I don't want anyone else to be involved in my mess! The last author's note gave me some sort of comfort and encouragement! Those who are fighting this mental battle, learn that you are not alone. Almost everywhere in this world many people like you are also fighting the same battle! Let's cheer for each other's well being and let's love ourselves today a bit more than yesterday! We can do it! <<less
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teagsho
teagsho rated it
November 13, 2023
Status: Completed
Honestly, after I finished reading this and seeing others review, I feel like a villain.

I do not like how MC (gong) sometimes repeating his guilt for being "too late to know and understand" ML's condition. Based on the story, MC is not wrong at all. In the first place, normally, you will not realize ML there if you are MC. That is why, I know he is saying that because he loves ML and hope he can meet him earlier to stop his overbearing loneliness and depressing thought, but still,... more>> I still stand on my stance that MC did nothing wrong. So overly blame yourself and dedicated your whole being just to save ML, but ignoring yourself, is too cruel for me (tbh is not that serious, this is my own opinion)

Spoiler

Honestly, from MC's POV, he feels like he is not paying attention to ML enough. For example, when ML feel sick and all, MC only ask, and when ML said he doesnt want to go to hospital, or just brushing it off by typical "It's alright", he just give up, and only try his best to make ML comfortable and cure him at home. Sometimes, he also forgot what ML wants to do, because when they talked about that, MC is in the middle of doing something. So MC forget, and thought ML just talking, not really wanting. But in reality, MC thinks that ML actually want to. But IN MY OPINION (once again, as a reader), ML is simply talking.

Then I got my answer, I am right at some point, that is just ML's personality. He is timid and have low expectation. So when he talks about something, and MC makes mistake for not remembering it, he just let it go and not pursuing it again.

Talking about MC not paying enough attention, it is just guilt tripping himself honestly. The ML was so damn stubborn that he will never told MC what he thinks. He will hide his pain thoroughly and huddled up in the darkness. MC always try to reach him, but he always got rejected, only seeing his lonely back in the night.

So, imo again, that is not MC fault. Simply put, ML already too depressed and MC just want to make ML comfortable, makes him healthy, makes him happy. In my view as a reader, what MC do is enough. ML already decide that, no matter what. MC just.... can not retain him anymore.

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Of course, ML also did not wrong. He become depressed and keep attempting su*cide because he can not take it anymore. But maybe, because I can not relate to his situation, you know MC reaally loves ML after they got together in the 1st life, he try his best to gain ML's will, no matter how it is. For example, he would buy a dog for ML just because he hopes that ML will be reluctant to die, but it is useless, ML reject it because it feels too much if he have to deal with the whining of the dog when he want to die.

At this time, MC asked in his heart, "So, won't you even stay alive, just for me? How about me?"

I feel like, "So, that is how it is, when you have a lover, who do not have any will to live." I realized that it is really hurts. Imagine, you tried to make your lover healthy, stay with him, care for him, love him, but he rejects all of that and prefer to shut down his world. Not even you, as lover, the closest person in the world, can get in.

What make me feel like a cold blooded villain:

Spoiler

When the scene ML STILL want to leave MC, I was so angry and annoyed honestly. When you die, how about MC? When people are being left in the world by their loved ones, how does ones feel? Doesn't ML know that feeling best? Why.... he also doing that, to the who he loves?

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That is 8/10 for me.

NOTES (my hope and imagination, not within the actual plot)
Spoiler

I really hope ML can regain his 1st life memories and become so guilty to MC, but MC already so tired trying to keep ML's having a good mental health, so now, he choose to die by himself, thinking, so this is how ML feel when he fell from the building? Freedom?

I VERY MUCH want to let ML feel how does it feels, to try so hard, to make your lovers, stay with you. Then failed, and watch him, throw his body off into the abyss,

Smiling.

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By the way, it is not bittersweet, it is pretty heartwarming and sweet in my opinion. Even the scenes in the first life when author describe how desperate MC to stop ML, and explain how hard ML's life is, it is ordinary for me. Everything is expressed in a normal, bland, way. Typical slice of life, not to dramatic, but not too flat either. Just like how life are. <<less
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wasthequeen
wasthequeen rated it
October 18, 2023
Status: Completed
Thanks for the translator for introducing me to this novel. I MTL'ed the rest, which is very readable. I love the MC, he is a very understanding and loving person, towards the ML. Please add tragedy tag. Although the ML started loving first, the MC fell for the ML harder. The author has a very beautiful writing style, like those of a water color painting. The author had also done research on mental illness, and it is portrayed accurately. Each and every chapter was bitter sweet. I also like how... more>> the ML becomes progressively outspoken, realistically. Overall it's a good read. <<less
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LiterallyNobody
LiterallyNobody
May 31, 2024
Status: c31
I didn't realize I would be able to finished reading this despite being so short, I expected to drop it halfway since it was so heart-wrenching for me to finished it.

There's one phrase that I remember reading, I think months or years ago (I'm not sure), from another novel where it says, "Lucky people have been cure by their childhood all their lives, and unfortunate people have to cure their childhood all their lives." At that time I really can't grasp the deeper meaning it has but reading this story... more>> made me realize the literal meaning of it.

The MC and ML's dynamics just resonates this phrase both being the subject of it yet having the different standing. There were various part that just makes me sad, I think I cry every other chapter because it's just so heartbreaking for me.

Imagine having an untouchable disease for an enemy.

It's just so sad remembering every details of ML's suffering. It was no one's fault yet it seems that the world had curse him. Also, MC's sadness😭 I couldn't explain it.

There was a part where MC's monologue in the earlier chapter mentioned about how 'They still haven't adopted a dog.' If you think about it, it was meaningless as it doesn't have any context but knowing the story behind it just made me go 😭, they both deserves happiness yet fate seems to be so against it.

The way MC retell their past lives especially about ML. Especially the part where ML just randomly buys luxury goods just shows how ML is feeling inferior of himself. It wasn't just an action of buying but a defense mechanism of hiding the suppressed inferior self of his. I felt so sad for him cause what happened to him is the compilation of setbacks that made him feel inferior and overtime ingulf him whole, leaving nothing but the depressed and scarred him.

It really made me teary eyed with how different ML's diary entries were after MC's rebirth.

Idk but no matter how MC make up for his past. I couldn't forget how the past ML used to be so lifeless because of the hardship he had face alone. Even the way he confess his feelings was so full of inferiority. It's just so sad that even his love for MC in the past isn't enough for him to continue living his life.

@9:26 PM <<less
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byteme28.z
byteme28.z rated it
June 6, 2025
Status: Completed
5/5 – What a beautiful read.

Some might say stories like this are boring—where mistakes are mended, and everything is made right. But I don't see it that way. To go back in time, to be better, to love more deeply, to save the one person you hold dearest—there's something achingly beautiful in that. The sheer abundance of love, the ache of it overflowing within your heart, it moved me.

The portrayal of mental health in this story is deeply realistic. You can truly feel how Li Chishu was slowly withering away.... more>> It's tender, raw, and handled with care.

And ofc I have to mention our MC Shen Baoshan! What a lad! Thank you for the amazing rizz crash course, you have effortlessly charmed Li Chishu and me.

Though the premise may seem steeped in sadness, don't let it fool you! This is a story filled more with warmth than with pain. In fact, I'd say it leans much more toward fluff than angst. There's just so much love here.

This is the kind of story that gently reminds you that loving someone actively, whether it's yourself or someone else— it takes effort, and that effort matters. The message of loving yourself, as clichéd as it may sound, is far from meaningless. Even if you already understand this, the story will deepen that understanding.

It's a completely worthwhile read. I'd recommend it to everyone. It will definitely make you smile and maybe even help you learn to be a little kinder to yourself. <<less
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HatsukoIzuna
HatsukoIzuna rated it
June 3, 2025
Status: Completed
One of the most beautiful depiction of love and dedication I've seen. The author portrayed li chishu's depression so well, it actually brought me to tears. Taking one's own life is indeed very selfish but when you look at it from the perspective of that person, you'll understand that, that is the only selfish thing that they have freedom over.

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Spoiler

Shen baoshan loved him more than his own life, which is true but li chishu's had already become a broken vessel at that point. No matter how much love was poured, he couldn't contain it. That's how depression is. When you realize, it's too late.

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Like I mentioned Shen Baoshan's whole life was Lli Chishu, so as long as chishu was happy, he was happy. He wanted to complete what he couldn't in his life, The way he loves chishu in both timelines is just so SO beautiful. He loved him with his very being without expecting it to be reciprocrated. Excellent writing. May this kind of love find everyone. <<less
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