My Second Husband Is a Green Tea

[A gentle, resilient widow remarrying and a bold, free-spirited top scholar]

[Beautiful older sister and a scheming little puppy]

Shen Wan had been a widow for three years and had never imagined she would marry again.

She certainly never imagined that on her wedding day, her groom would angrily refuse to show up, then leap out the window before even lifting her veil on their wedding night, as if she were some terrible demon.

Fine. The groom was young. There was no need to hold it against him. Once she had avoided the trouble and the storm had passed, this marriage in name only would naturally be dissolved.

But her new husband kept provoking her, refusing to let the matter drop.

He blamed her for bringing about the marriage and making him suffer so many family punishments that he was injured and unable to care for himself. Feeling guilty, she had no choice but to tend to him constantly, brewing tea and grinding ink for him, burning incense and helping him dress.

She had merely exchanged a few words of comfort and encouragement with someone else. When he overheard, his eyes reddened as he confronted her. “We’re husband and wife. Why do you treat me just like you treat all the other younger brothers?”

On the anniversary of her late husband’s death, she returned from paying her respects and found him lying listlessly on the bed, his face pale with illness. He tugged at her sleeve. “I’m not asking you to have no room in your heart for him. I’m only asking you to make room for one more person: me.”

Whenever those dark eyes, misty with tears, gazed at her again and again, she found herself softening again and again.

As the crabapple blossoms fell and spring tides surged, he gently nipped at the back of her neck. “Sister, give me a kiss, and I’ll let you go.”

A bewildered haze clouded Shen Wan’s clear eyes. How had her soft-heartedness turned a puppy into a wolf?

*

Lu Ci had been forced to marry a widow several years older than him. His classmates had laughed at him for marrying a woman with “two gold bricks.”

Afterward, he entered the court and purged corrupt officials; he went to the borderlands and drove back the enemy. Still so young, he rose to become both a great general and a high-ranking minister.

Everyone said that Shen, the twice-married wife, was so lucky to have prospered through her husband. Only he knew how she had spurred him to strive, pushing him to fight for success so he would never fall short of that man.

Her late husband had been a gentleman as bright and pure as the moon, leaving her bathed in moonlight.

So he refused to be a gentleman. He would drag her down from the moonlight and bring her back to the world of the living.

Gentle older sister vs. scheming little puppy

[Reading guide]

1. A widow romance. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero has only ever loved the heroine, in both body and heart.

2. An older woman-younger man romance. She is five years older.

3. All the settings in this story are the author’s own inventions. Just enjoy the story; there’s no need to nitpick!

4. Hope you enjoy reading. If you don’t, please leave promptly. Let’s all read in peace~

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