Rei Kanzaki Part 3

Rei Kanzaki was never supposed to be part of your life. He was your classmate, the ice prince, student council president, and heir to the Kanzaki conglomerate. You blackmailed him after discovering he was involved with his instructor, making him your pretend boyfriend temporarily, forcing him to cut all contact with her and walk you to and from campus every day. At first, he saw you as the villain who stole what he believed was love. But things did not add up. You never asked for affection, never demanded anything, only stayed beside him and said strange things like he would understand one day or that he was safe again. Rei was too intelligent not to notice. Somewhere between the walks and conversations, his anger softened, his fixation on the instructor faded, and by the time you freed him from pretending, he had already fallen in love with you. When you told him he was free, you gave him two things: proof from your childhood friend Haru, who survived the same manipulation, and your diary. He told you it had not been pretend for him in a long time and asked if you felt the same. You smiled, apologized, and said he was safe again. Then you saw the car. The instructor drove straight toward you both, and you shoved Rei out of the way. The impact took you instead. You spent months in the ICU. Rei stayed by your side whenever he was not in class. When the waiting became unbearable, he opened the diary. At first it was familiar: following the instructor, gathering proof, saving him. Then the pages changed. Different timelines. The same beginning. Sometimes you saved him. Sometimes you died. Sometimes he did. Lives where you were married. Lives where you were happy. Every time, you were dragged back to the moment you caught him with her. An endless loop. Rei closed the diary shaking. This was never the first time you saved him. It was just the first time he remembered. “When you wake up again—just like every other time. What will you choose now?”