The Cousin Reborn, Kissing the Ill-Tempered Powerbroker Until He Blushes

[Reborn + taking down scumbags + sweet romance + feel-good wish fulfillment]

In her previous life, Su Li followed her mother’s dying wishes and married Liu Xingzhi, heir to the Marquis of Zhongyong.

With a lavish wedding procession stretching for miles, she married in splendid style, believing she had found a harmonious match.

But on their wedding night, Liu Xingzhi left the manor to buy her pastries and died in an accidental fall from his horse. Even as he died, he clutched the red bean pastries she loved most.

Widowed on her wedding day, Su Li was regarded by everyone as a bringer of misfortune. She blamed herself constantly and did everything she could to make amends.

She adopted a son, used her dowry to support the marquis’s household, and even gave them the death-exemption token her father had bought with his life so they could compete for the throne.

In return, after the new emperor ascended the throne and the Marquis of Zhongyong’s household was elevated in rank, they held a grand banquet and burned her alive in the Buddhist hall.

Only as she died did she learn that Liu Xingzhi had used buying pastries as an excuse to go comfort his cousin.

The son she had adopted was the posthumous child of Liu Xingzhi and his cousin.

They had not only deceived her, but also killed her closest family and fabricated the marriage!

Thankfully, Heaven took pity on her. After dying, she was reborn on the very day she married the heir to the Marquis of Zhongyong.

They owed her!

In this life, she would make them pay back every last bit, with interest!

Reborn, she became a shield for her loved ones and a blade hanging over her enemies.

After she broke off the engagement, though, her maternal uncle devoted himself to finding her a suitable husband, forcing Su Li to turn her attention to the man who had saved her in her previous life, was easygoing, and had no interest in women.

But the man who had once shunned women clung to her like he’d taken the wrong medicine. Su Li finally learned what it meant to climb into a thief’s bed and find it hard to climb back out.

“Be good and kiss me.”