Crossing the Spring Breeze

[Synopsis for my next book, After Marrying the Second Male Lead to Bring Him Good Luck, at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection~]

Lu Yunchao died in battle in her previous life.

After her, the Duke of Zhenguo's family had no descendants left. The whole household was loyal to the death.

She had thought her life complete, but only after she became a wandering ghost did she learn the truth: her family's deaths had not been an accident.

The Lu ancestors had served their country loyally, but that counted for nothing against the charge of being "too powerful for the throne to tolerate."

Lu Yunchao's eyes burned with fury, but there was nothing she could do. She watched coldly as the emperor gloated and treacherous officials ran amok.

Her frail fiancé, whom she had once disliked in every way, entered the officialdom and rose step by step to become a powerful minister. He seized control from the emperor, assisted the new ruler, and avenged her.

Everyone said Pei Yinghuai was a treacherous schemer. Even Lu Yunchao, watching it all unfold, thought so, and secretly admitted she had underestimated him.

Then, after the new emperor ascended the throne, Pei Yinghuai killed himself at home, clutching the marriage contract between him and Lu Yunchao.

*

The legitimate son of the Earl of Loyalty and Righteousness, he was born frail despite being the son of a military man, and could barely walk three steps without panting.

Though Lu Yunchao had been engaged to him for years, she disliked this fiancé and had never acknowledged the betrothal.

She didn't understand why Pei Yinghuai had taken out their marriage contract before killing himself, or why he had worn that expression.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back six years in the past. Her father and brothers were still alive, and Lu Yunchao was still a nobody.

Living a second life, for reasons she couldn't explain, she didn't refuse when the Pei family came to discuss the engagement.

From then on, Pei Yinghuai, who had never appeared before, often showed up in front of her, his eyes full of meaning she couldn't understand, as if he were both happy and sad.

*

In Pei Yinghuai's dark and dull life, Lu Yunchao was his only light. Too bad she didn't remember.

In his previous life, after avenging Lu Yunchao, he killed himself at home. Even in death, he hadn't dared visit her grave, afraid she would be disgusted with him.

He thought he would finally be free, but when he opened his eyes again, he was alive. And this time, he truly had a lifetime of marriage with Lu Yunchao...

-- Coming Soon: After Marrying the Second Male Lead to Bring Him Good Luck --

On the day she transmigrated into a book, Yang Yulu became Yue Lin's bride, brought in to bring him good luck.

The girl had willow-leaf brows and apricot cheeks, and was slender and delicate. On their wedding day, Yue Lin kicked her out.

"Get out! I'd rather die than marry some bride brought in to bring me good luck!"

The Yue family was powerful, with connections in the capital, they said. No one in the county dared cross them. As the family's only young master, Yue Lin was arrogant and unruly, spending his days chasing chickens and tormenting dogs. If he hadn't fallen into the water this time, a lonely orphan like Yang Yulu would never have been chosen for him.

People outside said Yang Yulu was lucky, since the half-blind man in the east of town had named her and Yue Lin a match made in Heaven.

Yang Yulu's face was expressionless: Whoever wants this so-called luck can have it!

If Yue Lin were the male lead, she might have accepted it. But he was the second male lead, vicious and difficult, and when his family fell into decline later on, he would become thoroughly villainous. He would rise on his own to become the new ruler's most trusted Marquis of Zhenbei, and a major obstacle for the protagonists.

As a cannon-fodder first wife, she obviously needed to get as far away as possible.

Still, before leaving, she ought to collect some interest...

*

Yue Lin had recently realized Yang Yulu liked him. The evidence was as follows:

He knocked over his medicine bowl, and she immediately made him another.

He coughed in the middle of the night, and the next day she made him a sweet soup to soothe his lungs and stop the coughing.

He called her a blockhead to her face, but she didn't get mad. She even smiled.

Yue Lin lounged on a beauty couch, one leg crossed over the other, smugness plain on his pale face. You fuss over me like this because you're lusting after my good looks, aren't you?

With her back to him, Yang Yulu wrote an item in the ledger: Ten taels for emotional distress.

[Reader's Guide]

1. Fictional setting, many original details. Please don't nitpick the history!

2. To be added.

Theme: The bottom is not the end, but the starting point of transformation