After Keeping the Child and Sending the Father Away, the Debauched Heir Catches the Pox

[Complete, short story, fast-paced]

✓ Truly clearheaded ✗ Fake playboy ✓ Carefully planned rebirth, mutual devotion, exclusive and deeply devoted love

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On her wedding day, Lin Suwan goes along with it and marries into the fallen Princess’s residence.

Her cousin Cui Ruyue is secretly delighted. In her previous life, she married a playboy heir and lived as a widow in all but name. This time, she’ll marry the legitimate son of the Minister of Revenue and become the prime minister’s wife.

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On their wedding night, Lin Suwan spikes the nuptial wine and wins over the young heir.

Half a month later, she returns to her family alone and outsmarts her aunt.

A month later, she’s pregnant with the Princess’s first grandson. She helps her mother-in-law divorce her father-in-law, then joins forces with her mother-in-law to keep the child and send the father packing, leaving the young heir horrified.

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To secure his position, the young heir works the fields and studies by day, then climbs the wall to stand guard at night.

Later...

Cui Ruyue is so furious she nearly spits blood. “Why does Cousin’s life keep getting better? Why hasn’t the Princess set herself on fire? How is the heir getting more handsome and even passing the imperial examination as the top scholar?”

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Eventually, she finally gets her wish: the young heir takes a second wife. But then the Princess and her cousin throw her out, and she contracts a venereal disease.

Cui Ruyue finally understands: No matter how many times she’s reborn, men can’t be relied on. She has to stand on her own two feet.

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Lin Suwan never expected that, having lived a short life in her previous existence, she’d never even gotten to open the script of her own life.

As the truth is revealed layer by layer, she finally turns back and sees the man who carved a path to freedom for her, sword in hand...