Marrying My Ex's Great-Uncle

Wen Ji'an placed second in the imperial examinations and rose to the position of chief minister. But he nearly became a princess's husband, and that delay set him back several years. He still hadn't married.

In the year he turned thirty, his mother arranged a marriage for him.

He didn't meet his betrothed until the day of the betrothal gifts. She was dressed in especially vivid colors, her bright-red skirt cinched tightly around her slender waist. He lowered his gaze, surprised his mother had chosen someone like her.

But the marriage was already settled, and there was nothing more to say, so he let the matter rest.

After the wedding, he discovered that although his wife was young and charming, she was also gentle and well-mannered. Their daily intimacy gradually made him feel that they were newlyweds perfectly in sync, like fish in water.

Until one day, a nephew from his wife's family came to visit. When he saw her, he looked astonished and downcast, while she drank several extra cups of wine.

That night, flushed from drink, she clung to the wine jar and said bitterly, "At last, I got to this day. Becoming his aunt by marriage will drive him mad!"

Wen Ji'an's expression darkened. Only then did he realize that his wife had once been in love with his nephew, and had married him out of spite.

That night, he sat beside his drunk wife, keeping watch over her in silence until dawn.

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After months of sharing a bed while dreaming different dreams, and treating each other with polite distance, Shen Lingshu found an earring from her girlhood in the brocade pouch her husband kept close to him. She remembered searching for it for ages, while he had acted cold and unconcerned.

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Pei Xu married her using a thoroughly despicable excuse. Yet that same excuse kept him from confessing the love he'd hidden in his heart.

His beloved was the woman beside him in bed, the spring in his heart, but he didn't dare let her know.

(A little pursuit-after-the-wife arc + a husband secretly in love after marriage)

Theme: Misfortune may be the root of good fortune, and good fortune may conceal misfortune.