[Unconventional one-on-one romance + neither lead is chaste + reborn + the second male lead takes the top spot + a male lead who grows over time]
This isn’t a story about a strong, independent heroine. The heroine is emotionally fragile. She can accept two people parting because they don’t love each other, but she can’t accept being separated from someone who loves her by death. Please avoid this story if that bothers you.
Zhang Yanran had to admit, her older sister had incredible luck when it came to picking up men: the heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, the heir to a marquis’s estate, an amnesiac prince who had grown up among commoners... Once her sister picked them up, the one she didn’t care about was hers. The amnesiac prince, Song Xuqing, was exactly the kind of husband an ordinary woman like her could wish for.
Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last. Song Xuqing died.
The amnesiac prince began his first cycle of fate. He demoted his wife to a concubine, thinking that by following him she could have a life of wealth and splendor, and the coveted position of consort.
He thought she would wait for him.
He never imagined his wife would choose someone else.
The heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, Ming Jue, was a ruthless man. He forcibly took her back to the capital and said he would marry her.
Zhang Yanran couldn’t understand what he wanted. Love? But she didn’t love him!
A child? But the child wasn’t his...
Beneath the palace walls, Ming Jue turned himself into a human pincushion for her. Zhang Yanran once again went to extremes and died for love.
The prince entered his second cycle of fate. He returned in tears, saying he would stay by her side for the rest of her life. She had loved Song Xuqing most when he was like this, so he would do his best to live like Song Xuqing.
I like the second male lead [smirking], relatively relaxed writing