After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Chancellor, and My Scumbag Ex Regretted It to His Core

[Historical Romance + Xianxia Romance + Mythical Fantasy + Face-Slapping + Past and Present Lives + Beloved by Everyone + Devoted to Each Other + Sweet Romance]

The mythological xianxia elements show up in Chapter Five, dear readers!

Xie Mu Wu, the legitimate daughter of the Grand Commandant’s residence, bears a phoenix golden-wing birthmark between her brows, concealing a secret of the divine realm unknown to all.

The Empress Dowager is her great-aunt, and Xie Mu Wu has been raised in luxury since childhood. Proud and noble, she has never suffered the slightest indignity.

With her wedding fast approaching, her groom, Lu Cheng Yu, secretly shelters the woman he loves, who is pregnant with his child. When he hears that she has thrown herself into a river, he abandons Xie Mu Wu, already dressed in her bridal finery, and rushes off, heedless of the guests filling the hall or the Xie family’s reputation.

The whole room erupts in an uproar, and everyone waits to see her make a fool of herself.

In front of them all, Xie Mu Wu tears up the marriage contract. “Since the heir has someone else on his mind, this engagement is over, effective immediately! I’m the one rejecting him.”

She has every bit of her lavish dowry, stretching ten miles, brought back, leaving nothing with the Lu family.

The entire Xie family fiercely stands up for their own. Her second uncle angrily flips a table, her master Mo Xuan arrives in person to take charge, and the Emperor and Empress personally back her. No one at court dares to gossip recklessly.

Lu Cheng Yu and his mother subject her to every kind of torment and humiliation,

hurling vicious insults at her without end, calling her “secondhand goods,” “a cast-off,” “unmarriageable,” and saying she will “grow old and die at the Xie residence,” among other cruel slurs.

Qi Lin Yuan, whose power holds sway over the court, arrives forcefully to rescue her. “I’ll marry her.”

She declines calmly, with no wish to discuss marriage again.

He never pressures her, quietly helping her take revenge on scoundrels and shielding her from harm, patiently waiting for her to fall for him.

She does not know that the golden-wing mark between her brows has long been carved into his soul. Their bond began fifty thousand years ago.

After his crimes are exposed, Lu Cheng Yu is thrown into death row. In the dark, damp prison, he hears the joyful news of her wedding to Qi Lin Yuan and is consumed by endless regret, but it is already too late…