This was a writing exercise, but I’ve dropped it. Don’t read.
[Both Reborn, Slow-Burn: A stubborn, soft-hearted, romance-obsessed prince × a heroine who plays the pig to eat the tiger but is clueless about love. One couple, both chaste.]
Jiang Shiyue, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household, is reborn.
In her previous life, she was a princess consort, but before she could even sleep with the prince, she was implicated and died a miserable death on the road to exile.
Now that she has another chance at life, she runs into that short-lived prince again.
When they meet once more, his expression is cold and stern, as though he’s looking at a dead person.
Jiang Shiyue asks, “Can’t you just treat me like a fart and let me go?”
Later, when she is about to marry, the young prince races a thousand miles through the night, travel-worn, to stand before her and ask,
“Could you not marry him? Marry me instead.”
Only then does she realize how fervently this man looks at her.
Gu Yungui often dreams that he fought for Da Feng against Western Xia, only to be burned alive on the battlefield beneath Mount Quehua.
The tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, the brothers who once marched with him across the land, were reduced to charred bones.
Later,
He travels a thousand miles to reach her, only to hear her say, “In our previous life, there was no love between us. There’s no need for us to be involved in this one either.”
It looks great, I really like it.