On the Eve of Remarriage, My Late Husband Returned

# Two Souls in One Body: A Wicked, Brooding Demon Lord x a Beautiful, Dutiful Wife

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In the third year after her husband, Pei Guandu, disappeared, Wen Shuyu finally accepted that he had truly died at the hands of the demons. She signed the divorce agreement he had prepared in advance, dissolved their marriage contract, and began planning to remarry.

Wen Shuyu had always been honest and proper. Most importantly, she was exceptionally beautiful. It didn't take long for her to find a new husband.

Her wedding day was a grand affair.

Sitting in the bridal sedan, she resolved that this time she would have a child with her new husband, so she wouldn't have any regrets.

The sedan jolted along, surrounded by the sound of wind blowing fallen leaves.

Suddenly the wind fell silent, and the sedan dropped sharply to the ground. From outside, a man asked with a smile in his voice, warm as spring: "My lady, have you gotten into the wrong bridal sedan?"

She stiffened all over and shook her head. She hadn't.

His voice still held a smile, yet seemed to bring with it a gust of chilling wind. "Then I must have gone mad. Otherwise, why would I see my wife marrying someone else?"

Wen Shuyu finally realized who the ghost outside was. With trembling hands, she took out the divorce agreement to show him, only to discover that the words on it had vanished. In their place, a single line of vermilion characters appeared:

"I and my wife, Shuyu, shall never part, for all eternity."

A pair of ghostly pale hands lifted the sedan curtain. A red mole gleamed on the middle finger's knuckle, bringing back memories of countless nights of passion.

He dragged her out of the sedan by force. That night, she once again learned just how formidable that finger was.

"Pei Guandu..."

But her lips were sealed. She heard his amused voice: "Do you miss him? Are you trying to call him out? But right now, it's me holding you. You should call me Pei Guanlan, or perhaps... husband?"

Wen Shuyu had never dreamed that her returning husband would have two souls in one body. They were constantly jealous of each other, but in the end, the one who always got punished was her, their dutiful wife.

*

Pei Guandu had suffered a lifetime of misfortune. After falling from the pinnacle of the sword path and becoming a demon lord reviled by all, the only blessing in his life was meeting his wife, Wen Shuyu.

He was willing to disguise himself as an ordinary scholar and stay by her side, living a quiet life from then on.

But later, he was framed and nearly died at Drywater Cliff. Only on the brink of death did he discover that another soul lived inside him, named Pei Guanlan. Supposedly, he was the embodiment of Pei Guandu's inner demon.

Pei Guanlan said he could survive if he gave up control of his body. But he refused.

If it meant watching someone else use his body to be with Wen Shuyu, he would rather rot right there.

Pei Guanlan resented his stubbornness and uselessness, accusing him of failing his wife.

It didn't matter. He had already decided to die there.

That is, until he sensed that the divorce agreement had been signed, and heard his wife's red lips utter words about remarrying.

Suddenly, he no longer wanted to die.

Even if he had to crawl, he would crawl back to his wife and silence those infuriating lips of hers.

If returning to his wife's side meant giving up half of his control over their body, then he was willing.

*

Wen Shuyu had two secrets to keep in her lifetime.

The first was that she had been born without a thread of affection. Cold-hearted and unfeeling, she was incapable of loving anyone.

The second was that, on that night, even though she knew someone had set him up and her husband would die, she still drugged him, leaving him utterly powerless to resist so he would die at the bottom of the deep ravine and never come back.

Reader's Guide:

1. The male lead is a complete romantic fool, a wicked, brooding man who loves putting on an act. Two souls share one body.

2. The female lead isn't a dutiful wife in the purest sense. She has a dark side of her own.

3. The male lead's feelings are much stronger than the female lead's. He loves her like crazy.

Theme: Learning how to love someone the right way