‖Picking Up Men Fiction‖ Forced Marriage + Regret and Redemption‖ Misunderstandings‖ Fate‖
Why? Why, after getting a second chance, does he still mean to drag her into the same fate as before and push her into the abyss?
In her previous life, Meng Ying was able to marry Cui Zhi after saving him. She thought that since a man who was head of a powerful family was willing to marry her, he couldn’t dislike her. So when he installed her in an outer residence as his legal wife and treated her coldly, she never complained.
Until one day, wracked with unbearable stomach pain, she went to the main residence to find him. There, she heard him say to someone, “I only married her to win the people over. She’s a mere farm girl. Why would I ever care about her...”
His voice was contemptuous and icy. Meng Ying felt a chill run down her spine.
She vomited blood onto the steps and died that night.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day she met Cui Zhi.
Just as in her previous life, she took him home. But this time, she kept her heart guarded and her manner cool and distant. All she wanted was to send this powerful official safely on his way and preserve the peace of her little town.
She deftly brushed aside his pointed overtures.
Whenever he tried to get close, she avoided him if she could.
At last, his family came looking for him. When they asked what she wanted in return, she glanced at Cui Zhi, who looked certain she would choose him, and picked money without hesitation.
With a second chance at life, of course she wouldn’t choose him again, much less walk into the cage he’d built for her.
The farm girl’s choice surprised everyone. What surprised Cui Zhi even more was that the woman who had fussed over him and taken such good care of him already had someone she loved, and planned to use the money he’d given her to marry that person.
He wouldn’t allow it. He absolutely wouldn’t.
Her status might be low, she might not be fit to appear in respectable company, and she might be illiterate and beneath him, but so what? Even if he had to keep her by his side as a plaything, she could only ever belong to him.
But later, all his attempts to keep her by force only drove her to flee, regardless of the danger to her life.
The male lead doesn’t regain his memories of his previous life + both leads have only ever been with each other + one-on-one romance
Theme: Always believe in love, but don’t do so blindly.
