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,