The Phoenix Resigns from the Terrace

Wen Buyun was the eldest daughter of the Marquis’s household, unloved by her parents.

The first time she returned to the capital, at fifteen, she carefully followed every rule. Her beauty caught the eye of the Third Prince, Xiao Que.

On the day the entire Jing'an Marquis household was imprisoned,

she asked Xiao Que if he would spare her family. He told her, “They’re guilty of a capital crime. The law cannot be set aside. But Ayun will always be the only empress in my heart.”

She knew a cold-hearted man would never soften. On her way out of the palace, she took off her phoenix robe and leapt from the palace wall.

When Wen Buyun opened her eyes again, she was back in the carriage on her first trip to the capital at fifteen. Her mother had suffered a difficult labor giving birth to her, and she had been taken away as a child to live with her maternal grandmother.

She had once believed that her parents and elder brother felt no affection for her, and that even her younger cousin from the second branch of the family was more cherished at home.

Only later did she learn that, to secure her place in the imperial harem, her brother had gone to war. The young man celebrated throughout the capital returned in a coffin, with only half his body left.

In this life, she didn’t want to be caught up in the imperial harem again. All she wanted was a peaceful life with her family.

At the banquet where she met her former husband for the first time, he once again asked her father for her hand in marriage.

As a prince, he was a difficult match for both her and her father to refuse. But before he could finish his proposal, a teasing voice from behind a screen interrupted him.

She looked over and saw the young master who had lived next door to her maternal family when they were children.

In her previous life, they had barely crossed paths. He gave her a jade token only when she got married. He died not long afterward, a poor soul with a tragically short life.

But in this life, the short-lived man didn’t seem so short-lived after all. She used the jade token to open the Jiang family’s private treasury. The token he had given her in her previous life was actually the Jiang family patriarch’s seal. Why had he never told her?

Both leads are sexually inexperienced | Happy ending | Secretly in love

Theme: Death is not an ending, but a new beginning.