Second Marriage

[Currently updating The Marquis's Daily Courtship of His Wife. Scroll down for the blurb.]

Blurb:

Everyone said Xiao Youning was blessed. Her father and brothers commanded powerful armies, and the man she was to marry, Li Qingzhi, had a maternal uncle with influence throughout the court.

But on her wedding day, just after Xiao Youning was brought to the bridal chamber, she received the devastating news that her father and brothers had been defeated in battle and were missing.

Afraid of being implicated, the Li family heartlessly handed her a divorce decree.

Xiao Youning became a divorced woman right after her wedding ceremony, and the Li family promptly ingratiated themselves with a commandery princess, turning Xiao Youning into a laughingstock.

Just as everyone was watching Xiao Youning's misfortune, Li Qingzhi's immensely powerful maternal uncle cornered her in a rock garden, leaned close to her ear, and said, "When are you going to marry me?"

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What's it like to become your ex-husband's aunt by marriage?

Xiao Youning: Fantastic!

But the surprises her wonderful husband has in store are just getting started...

A sweet, satisfying story about getting revenge on scoundrels.

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The Jiang family were minor merchants who exploited a past favor, using a token from the old Marquis of Weiyuan's household to loudly proclaim that the current Marquis of Weiyuan should marry their daughter, Jiang Hanyin.

Song Mingyue, the young and promising Marquis of Weiyuan, was famously uninterested in women, and rumor had it that his heart already belonged to someone. So the elders of the marquis's household proposed a compromise: they would adopt Jiang Hanyin as their goddaughter and promise to find her a good husband.

From then on, Jiang Hanyin remained in the marquis's household as its Fourth Young Lady.

To avoid any impropriety, she deliberately kept her distance from her adoptive brother, doing her best not to be alone with him.

Fortunately, the elders of the Marquis of Weiyuan's household were kind and treated her as their own. They sincerely set out to find her a good match.

Later, Jiang Hanyin happened to meet a young man with handsome features and a fine character.

When the young man came to propose, all the elders of the marquis's household agreed it was a good match.

Only her adoptive brother set his teacup down heavily, his face cold. "They're not well matched in status."

The members of the Marquis of Weiyuan's household exchanged glances, and the engagement was called off.

From then on, Jiang Hanyin believed her adoptive brother despised her. She avoided him like a mouse avoiding a cat, wishing she could burrow into the ground.

But the sprawling Marquis of Weiyuan's residence seemed to shrink to a tiny space. No matter where she hid, her adoptive brother was always there.

Jiang Hanyin gritted her teeth and used praying for the old madam as an excuse to spend a year or so at a temple.

Who could have guessed that as soon as she reached the Buddhist hall, her adoptive brother would trap her inside?

Just as she was growing frightened and helpless, she saw the helpless look on his face as he asked plaintively, "When will you finally look at me properly?"

[Reader's Guide]

1. They are each other's one and only.

2. People are complex. There are villains of both genders, as needed by the plot.

3. Everything in the plot serves the main couple.

4. A fictional setting.

Theme: Self-reliance and independence