The Lover I Picked Up After Breaking Off My Engagement Is My One True Love

[Icy, Reserved Heroine vs. Warm, Sweet-Talking Hero] [Historical Romance + Feel-Good Revenge, Happy Ending]

In her past life, the first time they met, she accepted a scented letter from him. The next time, she accepted his ashes.

Born with a heart condition, Yun Jichu never got to enjoy the peaceful life in Chang'an he had wished for her. She died from exhaustion and worry.

When she opened her eyes again, she had become a princess of the imperial house. In a daze, she passed her days until the age of five. On her first day at the Imperial Academy, she saw the shadow of that man.

His mother had died, and he was bullied mercilessly. Yun Jichu pulled him from the water, and they grew together from children into teenagers.

When he returned victorious, it would be time for their wedding. But he brought back a cousin who had been exiled for years.

Yun Jichu decided she was done with him.

While breaking off the engagement, she found a sickly young man who looked about seventy percent like him, and carefully raised him by her side.

Her former fiancé came to confront her. "Why did you reject me, only to keep my double by your side?"

Yun Jichu replied, "I knew him before I knew you."

[Bonus Scene]

Rong Jian often dreamed of a figure. Whenever he tried to approach, she would disappear. He had no idea who she was.

On the way to the capital, he was ambushed. As he lay wounded and unconscious, he saw her wearing a fox-fur cloak. He recognized it at once: the one he had gone hunting for especially for her last year.

He deliberately let his injuries linger, just so he could stay by her side. But why were there so many people around her?

His young guard said, "Young master, even if you're marrying into her family, you still need to bring a dowry. But we've come to the capital alone, with nothing."

He immediately wrote a letter: "Send everything we own, except for Father."

The young guard said, "That vixen is using her little sister as an excuse to chat with the princess again. Too bad you don't have a little sister, Young Master."

He immediately took out paper and brush: "Have a daughter at once. Urgent!"

[An alternate-history setting, half-baked court intrigue, half-comedic feel-good revenge, both leads are virgins]

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In her previous life, Wen Buyun asked the emperor if he would spare her family. He told her, "They are guilty of a capital crime. The law cannot be set aside. But, Ah Yun, you will always be the only empress in my heart."

She knew a cold-hearted man would never change his mind. On her way out of the palace, she took off her phoenix robes and leaped from the palace wall.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back ten years earlier, in the carriage returning to the capital from her maternal grandparents' home. Her mother had nearly died giving birth to her, so her maternal grandmother had raised her from childhood.

She had once believed that her parents and elder brother were not close to her, and that even her cousin from the second branch of the family was more beloved at home.

That is, until her brother led an army to war to secure her position in the imperial harem. When he returned in a coffin, the celebrated young man of the capital was left with only half a body.

In this life, she wants no more of the palace's endless power struggles. She only wants to live a safe and peaceful life with her family. At the banquet where she first meets her former husband, he once again asks her father for her hand in marriage.

He is a prince, and both her father and she oppose the match. Unexpectedly, a teasing voice from behind a screen interrupts his proposal. She turns her head. It is the young gentleman who lived next door to her maternal grandparents when she was a child.

In her previous life, they barely crossed paths. When she married, he gave her a jade token. Not long afterward, he died, a poor soul with a tragically short life.

But in this life, the short-lived man seems to have a longer life after all. She uses the jade token to open the Jiang family's private treasury, only to discover that what he gave her in her previous life was the Jiang family patriarch's token. Why didn't he tell her?

Both leads are virgins, happy ending, secret crush

Theme: A clear river and calm seas, peace and prosperity