The Tenth Year After My Wife's Death

Ten years ago, Chen Yu’s lover, Ji Xitong, died in a car accident.

The funeral was arranged entirely by Ji Xitong’s parents. Chen Yu could only attend as a close friend.

She didn’t shed a single tear—just stood there, holding a bouquet of chrysanthemums, staring numbly at Ji Xitong’s memorial portrait.

Friends and relatives urged her not to live in the past forever.

Each time, Chen Yu would nod and tell them she just needed a little more time.

But over the past ten years, a fresh bouquet of chrysanthemums always appeared at Ji Xitong’s grave every week, rain or shine.

Until the anniversary of Ji Xitong’s death in the tenth year.

Chen Yu gently brushed her fingers over the smiling dimple in the portrait and whispered, “This is the last time I’ll come see you.”

The fallen petals swayed gently in front of the black granite tombstone, carried far by the wind.

That day, as Chen Yu passed the intersection where the fatal accident had occurred, her car sped straight toward the wide river.

The death she had waited so long for did not come. When she awoke, she saw a figure she hadn’t seen in years—

Dim, blurred, cold... like a ghostly shadow under the moonlight.

Her knuckles curled slightly as she hoarsely murmured the name she had longed for day and night:

“…Ji Xitong.”

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The flower language of chrysanthemums is: “I have forever lost my love.”

In the ten years since becoming a spirit, Ji Xitong had received countless chrysanthemums.

If death was an unchangeable fact, then she would be content to stay quietly by Chen Yu’s side from afar.

In those countless midnight dreams, she would gently clasp her fingers with hands as ethereal as air.

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HE (Happy Ending), includes rebirth/reincarnation content, with one-human-one-ghost dynamic in early stages

Main POV: Chen Yu

Interactive POV: Ji Xitong

Supporting roles: Various unnamed characters

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One-sentence summary: Ten years after her wife’s death, a ghostly reunion brings back a long-lost love.

Theme: Cherish life.