The Fallen Big Shot Insists on Repaying Me

Ye Hansu is a luckless young widow in Republican-era China. After her husband dies, her desperate mother-in-law tries to protect the family fortune by forcing her to get close to her husband’s third uncle, Qi Zheng. Just as she hesitates, the young man she once saved by chance pins her in a corner and asks in a brooding, seductive voice, “Are you really going, Young Madam? Why go looking so far away when I’m right here? I still want to repay you.” Only later does she learn that his repayment has several layers of meaning... New story: After Bearing the Child of a Powerful Official Lin Xingruo transmigrates into the body of an unmarried pregnant palace candidate in ancient times. She is due to enter the palace next month, but has no idea who the father of her child is. Just as she is at her wits’ end and planning to run away, the child’s father finally appears. He is also a brilliant patron with connections, and Lin Xingruo clings to him without hesitation. From then on, he spoils her to the skies. Qin Jian is the youngest grand secretary of the Great Yong dynasty. His political enemies call him a bodhisattva on the outside and an asura within. Everyone thinks he is as emotionless and desireless as a bodhisattva enshrined in a temple, but they don’t know that he gave all his tenderness to the young woman who unexpectedly entered his life. She bore him children, so he gave her wealth and glory. She gave him a smile like a flower, so he gave her all his love. Everyone believes that the Empress Dowager, who rules from behind the curtain, and the regent, who holds the court in his hands, must be sworn enemies. Yet they don’t know that the beautiful young Empress Dowager was raised and cherished by the regent. Years later, several ministers gathered to gossip. “Don’t you think the emperor and the regent look more and more alike?” “Isn’t that because the regent looks like the late emperor?” “So, after all, are the emperor and the regent brothers, or father and son?” Theme: When the mountains and rivers seem to leave no way forward, a new village appears beyond the dark willows and bright flowers.