A Thousand Rebirths: I Await My Husband's Death
Despair twisted his face as he shouted at me, "Zoey! I don't ask for your forgiveness, but please, wait for me, won't you? Don't fall in love with someone else…"
I looked at him with the calm detachment of a stranger. "Gary, I don't hate you anymore."
Gary's eyes lit up, even as he was pressed down to the floor. He still stared at me with desperate hope. "Then… will you still give me a fair chance? Can we start over?"
I shook my head. My voice was steady. "But I don't love you anymore. No one will stay in the same place waiting forever, Gary. The man I loved—the one whose heart held only me—died long ago, buried across 999 lifetimes.