In her previous life, after Gu Pingze placed first in the imperial examinations, Anping Commandery Princess, the eldest daughter of the Grand Princess, took a liking to him. But bound by his promise, he rejected her and married Chu Hanyu as he had vowed. After struggling his way up the ranks and using Chu Hanyu's dowry to grease the wheels, it took him seven years to climb from a lowly sixth-rank Hanlin compiler to a fourth-rank vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review. Chu Hanyu gave everything she had to the Gu family, and died believing her husband had been wholly devoted to her.
Reborn, Gu Pingze was still resentful. On the day of the parade celebrating his top examination result, he accepted the commandery princess's purse.
Seeing this, Chu Hanyu finally understood that in her previous life, Gu Pingze had never stopped resenting having rejected the princess. He was also bitterly jealous of Fu Yanheng, whom the princess later helped rise to prominence.
On the day she broke off her engagement, Chu Hanyu turned around and married Gu Pingze's sworn enemy, Fu Yanheng.
Fu Yanheng gladly accepted.
Gu Pingze, however, claimed Fu Yanheng could never make her happy, and that she might as well become his concubine rather than live as a widow in all but name.
Chu Hanyu sneered. This time, you can climb into a powerful family's good graces. I'll just watch and see how far you get with an ambitious father-in-law who wants to seize power.
It's quite nice, several people are reborn.
Very good, very refreshing
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It's very beautiful and written very smoothly.