Reborn + marriage swap + seemingly frail power-hungry official + sweet, gentle concubine-born lady + marriage first, love later + older man doting on younger woman
In her previous life, Bai Huanyan was packed off by her adoptive mother to marry Xiao Jingyan, heir to the Duke of Anguo, solely to help her elder sister Bai Lingwei, who had married into the ducal family.
A year later, the Duke of Anguo died. Xiao Jingyan inherited his title and became the new emperor’s favored minister, rising to the highest post in the government.
Her elder sister regretted her choice.
She set out to seduce Xiao Jingyan and framed Bai Huanyan, ruining her reputation.
In a ruined temple in the depths of winter,
Bai Huanyan learned, amid Bai Lingwei’s triumphant mockery, that everyone she cared about had died at her hands.
Summoning the last of her strength, she bit through Bai Lingwei’s throat, then was stabbed to death by the guards.
When she awoke, she was back on her wedding day.
Bai Lingwei demanded that they swap husbands, and Bai Huanyan happily agreed.
The man she married didn’t matter. Her loved ones and power did.
She held on to her wealth, power, and family.
Bai Huanyan waited contentedly to become a widow.
But her husband, who was supposed to be frail and die young, proved insatiable night after night.
“A Yan, do you like it like this?”
“N-no more...”
The male and female protagonists, the scumbag man and the scumbag girl, are all reborn, but the whole story is so frustrating to read. It is all about the male and female protagonists' inner self-exploration. Neither of them is talkative, and there are not many love lines. The pace becomes faster from the moment the scumbag father divorces his wife, as if he is in a hurry to finish it. Major events in the past life are all brushed off, such as the male protagonist's injury. .
Not bad, a pretty good novel, but the ending is too quick 👍
Yes, it's pretty.