Jade Slave’s Makeup

In her previous life, Xie Yuanhua loved Wang Ying for her entire life, but she never confessed and never spoke of her feelings. Wang Ying was the legitimate son of the Wang family. He was exquisite and beautiful, elegant and refined, and people of the time called him a jade man. Unfortunately, he had been born frail and was physically weak. Xie Yuanhua, meanwhile, was merely a concubine-born daughter with an ordinary appearance. She only dared to steal distant glances at Wang Ying, who stood at the center of the crowd during banquets. She buried this maidenly affection deep in her heart and never revealed it to anyone. Until that day. News arrived from Jiankang: Wang Ying had been "watched" to death. Xie Yuanhua fainted on the spot. What did it mean to be "watched" to death? Only after waking did she learn that when Wang Ying went out, he had been surrounded because he was too beautiful and had been trapped there until he literally died. She wept as if her heart and gall had been torn apart, then fell gravely ill. A year later, her family betrothed her to a concubine-born son of the Yu family. From then on, she followed her husband away from Jiankang and settled in Kuaiji. The couple's relationship remained tepid after marriage. When she remained childless for a long time, her husband took two concubines, and Xie Yuanhua did not care in the slightest. Her heart had died that day. Before she was forty, Xie Yuanhua died after years of depression. When she opened her eyes again, she was shocked to discover that she had returned to the midsummer of her sixteenth year, the day before Wang Ying was to be watched to death. * Wang Ying was nobly born and as beautiful as a jade tree in an orchid garden, yet his frail health confined him. He never went a day without ginseng soup or escaped the torment of illness. Day after day, Wang Ying had long since been tormented into developing a bitter and murderous nature. On the surface, he was the Wang family's embodiment of radiant grace. When alone, he was a vengeful ghost haunted by evil spirits. He of course knew that the fourth daughter of the Xie family liked him, but he had never cared. There was no one in the world who did not like him or love this beautiful exterior of his. Therefore, when Fourth Lady Xie rashly came to visit, he was annoyed but still patiently agreed to see her. Who could have known that upon meeting him, Fourth Lady Xie would open with the inexplicable question, "Young Master Wang, could you please not leave the residence tomorrow?" He said impatiently, "Why do you say that, my lady?" But Fourth Lady Xie only stammered and could not explain herself. Another dull pain flared somewhere in his body, and Wang Ying no longer had the patience to humor her. "Please return, my lady." He turned around, intending to leave. A slender hand suddenly seized the corner of his sleeve. "If you refuse to listen to me, I fear your life may be in danger!" Wang Ying did not believe her at all. He was irritated to the extreme, bringing the viciousness buried in his bones to the surface. Wang Ying slowly turned his head. His tone was intimate, but his eyes were icy. "Putting aside whether this is true, Fourth Lady and I have always been no more than casual acquaintances. Why, then, should you suddenly care about whether I live or die?" It was the season of Jiangnan's plum rains. Heavy moisture drifted beneath the corridor and spread between the hems and sleeves of their clothes. He saw the young woman before him crying as she said, word by word, "Because I have loved Young Master Wang for a long time." Wang Ying's eyes suddenly widened. [Quiet and inarticulate, withdrawn heroine x Frail, sickly, beautiful young man] Reading Guide: * Set in an alternate Wei-Jin period. * The heroine is reborn and is insecure and repressed at first. * The hero is modeled after Wei Jie. * The heroine is not untouched, but the hero is. The heroine was married in her previous life and had no children. * Romance-focused, slightly angsty, with a touch of melodrama. Premise: Save a life and walk toward the light.