Translator: Foxaholic
Chapters: 41
Tags: rebirth, arranged marriage, self-cest (yup, you read that right), dogblood
Synopsis:
Born again back to five years ago, Qi Yueran accidentally became the notorious Third Young Master of He family, He Jian.
He decides to return to his previous city to find his younger "self" and protect "himself" from repeating the same mistakes.
Unexpectedly, a series of misunderstandings caused the promotion of a commercial marriage between the two people...
shou is Qi Yueran (past self), gong is He Jian (future/rebirth)
Impressions: I found this on a Forgotten Title thread on NU forum. The title was Danmei novel and being the good person I am, I went in to see if I could help, as a result I discovered a whole new world~~ Self-cest ah! I didn't know something like this exists!! So anyway, I decided to give it a try.
MC is reborn five years in the past but in a different body. Good thing, there's a precedent in The Seeing Eye Dog with the MC existing as two different individuals in the same timeline so I wasn't entirely new to this~~ MC's new body is a notorious playboy in the capital, he went back to his old city to find his younger self. Younger MC at this time was still inlove with his big brother (yup! just plain incest) but MC knows that they have no future. Rather, he knows that his big brother would betray him and side with the rival of their company. So he takes care of his younger self, and for some reason, this caused his younger self to be engaged to his rival (that is the jerk that got together with his big brother in the last life) so he absolutely flipped, how could he let "himself" be engaged to his enemy. So he nominates himself as a candidate.
MC's new body is a capital boy, way more richer and influential than his rival so younger MC got engaged to him. There are some conflicts, big bro shows his true colors and harms younger MC and MC protects him again and again so of course, it is inevitable to have some feelings~ After lots of drama, MC agreed to have a relationship with his younger self. More drama and it is revealed that big bro is also a reincarnator, (and also they are not blood-related) and he noticed that he and MC knows the same things, and accurately guessed MC's identity. MC confesses the truth to younger MC, and he accepts it. Laters, they got married.
So although MC framed it that because of their difference in experience, they can be seen as two different individuals, but for me, that's still self-love you know? Overall, this is a typical CN novel except for the weird premise. It was pretty short (41 chaps) and I liked it enough to binge read it so I'm giving it a 3/5~~