In her previous life, Qiu Yi married the scholar Zhou Rui, to the envy of everyone in the village.
For ten years of marriage, she pitied her mother-in-law for all her hard work and her husband for the difficulty of his studies, rising before dawn and working late into the night to take every chore off their hands.
After ten years of hardship, she finally helped Zhou Rui pass the provincial examination as a successful candidate. She thought their struggles were finally over, but after the spring examination, Zhou Rui unexpectedly married the daughter of a marquis!
To curry favor with the marquis's daughter, he and his mother even joined forces to push Qiu Yi off a cliff!
When she opened her eyes again, Qiu Yi found herself back on the day Zhou Rui broke off their engagement.
On this day in her previous life, her parents had given up everything to fulfill her wish to marry Zhou Rui.
Reborn, she signed the letter ending the engagement of her own accord.
She didn't care about marrying a scholar or keeping the engagement. In this life, she only wanted to live to a ripe old age and care for her parents until they passed away!
On the night the engagement ended, Qiu Yi spotted the man responsible for it on her family's wall.
His name was Cheng Qi'an. In her previous life, while she was being tormented by her mother-in-law, Cheng Qi'an had been sold to a male brothel out of jealousy and cruelly abused. Just two months later, his body was dumped in a mass grave.
They had both suffered similar misfortunes, so Qiu Yi felt sorry for him. She also wanted to get on his good side, so she helped him out from time to time.
But she never expected him to have other ideas.
Cheng Qi'an had been orphaned as a child and was dependent on others. His aunt was hot-tempered, while his uncle seemed mild-mannered but secretly stirred up trouble at every turn.
Everyone felt sorry for him and often helped him out, but who could have guessed that accepting a piece of flatbread from the young woman next door would cost her her engagement?
Since the young woman had lost her engagement, he'd simply give himself to her in its place.
He'd pass the scholar examinations and become a high-ranking official too, then protect her for the rest of her life!
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