Zhong Wan (Reborn Twice)

Apart from her gentle, alluring face, what Zhong Yunguan was envied for most was her remarkable fiance.

Her fiance, Xie Ji'an, was handsome and refined. He passed the provincial civil service exam at a young age and only had to wait until the following year to take the capital's imperial exam and leap to success.

He lived up to everyone's expectations, coming first in the imperial examinations and becoming the top scholar of the dynasty.

But Zhong Yunguan died before she could marry into the Xie family and enjoy her good fortune.

She died in April, when spring made the mountains smile, on her way home after buying her trousseau. Someone slit her throat with a single stroke.

In her final moments, Zhong Yunguan couldn't understand it. She rarely quarreled with anyone, so who could hate her so much?

Only after her death did she learn the truth. At a Qionglin Banquet, her fiance caught the eye of Princess Mingzhu, who was born to luxury and privilege. She insisted on marrying him, but Xie Ji'an rejected her, saying he already had a fiancee.

Humiliated and enraged, Princess Mingzhu came to hate Zhong Yunguan and sent someone to kill her.

With her out of the way, Xie Ji'an married Princess Mingzhu and rose rapidly through the ranks, eventually becoming the powerful Chancellor Xie.

As for Zhong Yunguan, she was nothing but a stain on the tale of the devoted couple's love.

After being reborn, Zhong Yunguan refused to repeat her past mistakes and resolved to break off the engagement. But just as she was about to tell her mother, she learned from her that her wedding to Xie Ji'an was the very next day.

In his previous life, Xie Ji'an had had enough of Mingzhu and her madness. So on the first day after being reborn, he asked his mother to propose to the Zhong family.

He wasn't very familiar with Zhong Yunguan, his fiancee, but she was gentle and sensible, and his mother liked her. There was no harm in marrying her.

Besides, it would let him avoid the death that had awaited her in her previous life.

Their married life was as uneventful as he had expected. Yet Xie Ji'an came home more and more often, and his gaze lingered on his wife for longer each time.

He had a lovely wife in his arms, his career was going better than in his previous life, and that madwoman Mingzhu had left him alone. Xie Ji'an was entirely satisfied.

Until one day, he came across his wife standing with a man. The man asked, "A'guan, when are you going to divorce him?"

His gentle, obedient wife replied softly, "Tomorrow."

The next day, she really did hand him a divorce agreement.

Xie Ji'an smiled as he tore it up, gently playing with the tassel in his wife's hair. "I'll pretend I never saw this today. I don't want to know what your relationship with that man is either. Guan'er, remember, you are my lawful wife, whom I married with full ceremony."

"We shared a bed in life, and we'll share a grave in death. That will never change."

So don't even think about leaving me.

[Gentle, strong, stunning beauty x cold, ruthless, obsessive reborn powerbroker]

Reader's Guide:

In his previous life, the male lead and the princess were married in name only. He remained chaste for his entire life.

Theme: Face your true feelings