Courting Death (Xianxia, Reincarnation)

Martin Zheng has always held dying hands and listened for the hush that comes after the final heartbeat. It's his gift, his burden. Until the night he gives his own life to shove a child away from speeding headlights and awakens in Death's embrace. She is Thanara: silver-haired, star-eyed, lonelier than the long darkness she guides. For one stolen moment, two caretakers share a tenderness deeper than fear, then the cosmos snatches Martin away, declaring his demise "an error" and hurling him back to existence. Reborn as Mingxuan in the Elemental Realm, a land where sword-saints carve mountains, skies burn a different colour each day, and power is measured in the lives you can end, Martin remembers only fragments: a scent of rain-drenched lilacs, a pulse in his chest, a promise to meet Death again. While rival sects chase immortality, he walks the forbidden Dao of Death, mastering the grace of endings so he can stand beside the woman no one dares to love.