Trope: second chance

A Paradise Reached Through Love

愛を積む楽園 (Ai wo Tsumu Rakuen)

rasu

A couple of 25 years has to start over when one of them loses every memory of their life together.

A Romance with My Older Brother's Ex-Boyfriend

Yoko Onohara

Fujimori drifts through one-night stands from dating apps. One of his matches is Eiri, who used to date his older brother.

A Romantic Comedy Between Two Ex-Boyfriends

Kishimoto

Two restaurant coworkers who bicker constantly are exes still in love, and everyone knows it but them.

Business as Unusual

LHYEON, DG, MOSCARETO

Minjun's monotonous office life cracks open when his ex walks in as the new coworker.

Choose Wood and Dwell

Ka Bi

Eight years ago a naive rich boy chased after a brilliant tutor. Eight years later their positions have swapped.

Coming Back as a Fair-Haired Boy

XingLing Animation

Kyan Lim dies in a car accident, gets a second life, and resolves to care about nothing but his career.

Cruel Love

iCiyuan

Gentle pianist Wen Niannan gave cold CEO Gu Yansheng three years of devotion and got nothing back. Now Gu wants him back.

Dawn After Darkness

Seungyong (story), Duckhwa (art)

One night with Seo-hyun kept Hyeon-oh going through years in the yakuza; now Seo-hyun is back.

Delinquent Daddy and Tender Teacher

元ヤンパパ と ヒツジ先生 (Moto Yan Papa to Hitsuji Sensei)

Tama Mizuki

A gentle elementary teacher finds out his old high school crush is now a single dad with a kid in his school.

Escape Journey

エスケープジャーニー (Escape Journey)

Ogeretsu Tanaka

Naoto dumped Taichi after a huge fight in high school, and on the first day of college there he is again.

Falling

落池 (Luo Chi)

Yu Cheng

A spoiled rich boy pulls a poor, brilliant classmate into his life on a whim and learns too late what he had.

Farming for Love

Tarang

Dumped for a career marriage, Hyeon-woo flees to the countryside and meets a farmer who says little and notices everything.

How to Repair a Broken Cup

割れたカップを戻すには (Wareta Cup wo Modosu ni wa)

Rico Worico

Ten years into their relationship, a broken mug sends Kippei back in time to fix what he and Keita stopped saying.

Hyperventilation

과호흡

story & art: Bboungbbangkkyu (Bboong Bbang Kkyu)

Nine years after high school, two former classmates meet again at a reunion, and the feelings they never resolved come straight back.

I Have a Boyfriend

PIBI

On the university soccer team, Hyunho walks into an elective and finds his middle school first love sitting there.

Lion Hearts

ライオンハーツ (Lionhearts)

Mita Ori

Shishimaru proposed to his best friend Leo when they were small, and ten years later they meet again.

Lost and Found

TingFeng

A man struck by lightning comes back from thousands of years in the past to find someone has waited ten years for him.

Love Tattoo

愛の刺青 (Ai no Irezumi)

Akairo Mash

A salaryman dumped for being boring meets a tattoo artist who is still tied to an old love.

Miiyu Just Wanted His Dead Lover Back

Aniya Yuiji

A man from the modern day is pulled into another world by the elf who loved him in a past life.

My Sweet Secret Lover

Yamawomi

At 37, Kosuke loses the job he gave everything to, drinks himself numb, and goes home with a stranger.

Old Wounds, New Growth

旧故新长 (Jiu Gu Xin Zhang)

Shi Wu Cha

After his boyfriend's funeral, a man wakes up in the past, when that boyfriend secretly loved him and he did not know he existed.

Onose-Sensei Wants to Have SEX

Yurin Sakuraba

A high school teacher whose partners keep leaving him still thinks about his first love, and then meets him again.

Place to Be

플레이스 투 비

Yuuji (original)

Over ten years after a failed high school confession, Chiyeong sees Euigeon walk into his shop with Joonyeong, the friend Euigeon always wanted.

Play Me Softly

ドルチェな僕らの恋について (Dolce na Bokura no Koi ni Tsuite)

Kakeru Tsukino

An office worker who plays in a concert band still has not gotten over his first love when that same classmate joins the band.

Remnants of Filth: Yuwu

余污 (Yuwu)

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (Meatbun)

A highborn general faces the lowborn comrade and former lover who defected to the enemy, now returned broken and facing execution.

Restart After Coming Back Home

リスタートはただいまのあとで (Restart wa Tadaima no Ato de)

cocomi

Fired from his Tokyo job at 25, Mitsuomi slinks back to his country hometown and meets the gentle newcomer everyone there already loves.

Reunion

해후

art: DeulSum

Years after faking a dead friend's identity for a dying tycoon, Hakyung works at a bar, and the grandson who nearly caught him walks in.

Seven Sundays

일곱 번의 선데이

story: Charyeok

Firefighter Taeyang finds his first love Jiwan again, along with a little boy who shares Taeyang's name and the right age to be suspicious.

Stay By My Side After the Rain

雨上がりの僕らについて (Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite)

Shoko Rakuta

A closeted salaryman who has given up on love runs into the classmate he secretly liked in high school.

Stories from the Shopping District

Sanba Maekawa

A pasta chef comes home from Italy to run the family restaurant and finds his childhood friend very much changed.

Substitute Relationship

Kuaikan Comics

For five years He Yang treated his partner Xu Chengyan as a stand-in for someone else. Then Xu Chengyan dies.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun

二哈和他的白猫师尊 (Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun)

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

A tyrant emperor kills himself and wakes as his teenage self, back under the teacher he hated most.

The King of Home Dating

Lee hyun-joo

Dumped after ten years, Jooyeong goes on a cooking show to promote his failing academy and finds an old flame producing it.

The Loser’s Comeback

루저가 돌아왔다

Sweetshade

A trainee cheated out of his K-pop debut by a bribe wakes up five years later in the cheater's body.

The Secluded Sorcerer Wants a Peaceful Life

Tsutako Tsurusawa

Shagar was the hero whose magic ended a war. Now that magic is sealed and he just wants to be left alone.

The Second Alpha

2番目のα (2ban-me no Alpha)

Yofune Shibue

An alpha finds his fated mate on his first day at a new job, and the man is wearing a ring.

The Wife Comes First: Qi Wei Shang

妻为上 (Qi Wei Shang)

Lv Ye Qian He (绿野千鹤)

On his deathbed, Prince Cheng sees that only his neglected consort Mu Hanzhang stayed, then wakes in the past with a chance to fix it.

The World's Greatest First Love

世界一初恋 (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Shungiku Nakamura

A manga editor starts a new job and discovers his boss is the first love who broke his heart ten years ago.

Till Death Us Do Part

长相守 (Chang Xiang Shou)

Tangstory

In 1930s Tientsin, a schoolteacher and a warlord's heir meet again in a new life, in a city about to be occupied.

Turning

터닝

original novel: 쿠유 (Kuyu)

Executed on a false charge, the empire's first omega cavalry commander wakes eleven years earlier and sets out to protect the man he once killed.

Un-re-write

Yuzu Marita

A police officer and a private eye meet again, with old feelings still smouldering between them.

Unrequited Love Thresher

짝사랑 탈곡기

원해온 (publisher 피아체)

Yet Again, My Ex-Husband Wants to Remarry

Kuaikan Comics

Dominant alpha Ye Linghan turned fellow alpha Ji Ran into an omega with a single remark, married him, and then divorced him.