Back to My Tsundere Late Husband's Youth

[Blunt and wild vs. sharp-tongued but soft-hearted]

Zhou Yilang hated Zhu Changrong for three years because he had taken her by force. She never expected him to die in the very year she hated him most.

He died pierced by countless arrows to protect her.

A man who had always been afraid of the cold died on the coldest day of winter. With bloodstained hands, he offered her the divorce papers and gave a faint smile. "Go. Don't spend the rest of your life mourning me."

This was exactly what she had wanted. But when she saw his lifeless face, tears streamed down her cheeks.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the night she had been forced to put on her wedding dress and marry into the Zhu family. This time, she didn't run away like she had in her previous life.

The young man lifted her veil and studied her face, his expression unreadable. "Sister-in-law, I hear you went to all sorts of lengths to marry me, even threatening to kill yourself?"

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On their wedding night, his wife clutched his sleeve with tearful eyes and said that in this life, she would protect him and share life and death with him.

Zhu Changrong spotted the dagger hidden in her sleeve. Share life and death? More like take each other down together.

He spent the night in the study. She shyly came looking for him, carrying a plate of exquisite dishes.

To get rid of her as quickly as possible, he had no choice but to eat them. That night, he spent hours throwing up.

At death's door, he thought: So she really is here to kill me!

Later, when he defied his elders for her and was punished with a kneeling stint in the ancestral hall, she climbed in through the window under cover of darkness and offered him steaming-hot meat buns, her face smudged with dirt.

Zhu Changrong couldn't help reaching out to wipe it away. His wife seized his hand, looking thrilled. "I knew you loved me!"

Zhu Changrong, who couldn't stand the sight of anything dirty: ?

Later, after Zhu Changrong learned about their previous life, he ran his fingers over his wife's wrist and looked at his reflection in the mirror. In an unreadable tone, he asked, "Do you like me more, or him?"

Reader's Guide: In their previous life, the forced marriage was only seemingly so. There are plenty of misunderstandings, melodramatic mistaken-identity and replacement-bride plotlines, and a marriage-by-proxy trope. A romance, with both leads having no prior sexual partners.

The official title is With You, Falling Through Wind and Moon. Blurb written on August 5, 2026.

Theme: Take control of your destiny