The Emperor Was Reborn After Mistaking Someone for His White Moonlight

(This is a top's perspective story. The perspective label was wrong.) In his previous life, he was deceived by a treacherous woman, mistaking arsenic for candied fruit. He indulged her arrogance and bluster until he was stabbed in the back, imprisoned, and his dynasty fell. The empress he had married seven years earlier fell to her death with him. Reborn, Xiao Wuling turns over a new leaf, determined to make amends to the empress he had neglected and wronged, and give him the respect and affection he deserves. # Only after getting a second chance does he realize just how much suffering the person he'd treated coldly had endured while he was blind to the truth. Punished by being forced to kneel in the dead of winter, he lost the prince he had carried for three months. After four years alone in the cold, he was assaulted in the middle of the night and lost all faith in him. When Xiao Wuling is reborn, there's still time to make things right. He holds his empress close and whispers: "Mo'er, once you've recovered, bear me a crown prince." Content warnings: One top and one bottom, physically and emotionally (for real!) The top dotes on the bottom. Includes melodrama and a Mary Sue. A vulnerable bottom, beautiful and wealthy but insecure. New story recommendation: "The Little Shrewish Husband" Synopsis: A top's perspective story. Zhang Yuming is unhappy with the husband his family arranged for him. His male spouse is a widower who fled a disaster and has a child in tow. Though he's beautiful as fresh snow, he's also sharp-tongued and quarrelsome, picking fights with Zhang Yuming's stepmother every day and throwing the household into chaos. So, a year after the wedding, Zhang Yuming leaves. Using a business trip as an excuse, Zhang Yuming rescues a nobleman on the road and helps him accomplish his goals, a task that takes more than a decade. By then, Zhang Yuming has become a powerful duke. When the emperor offers to arrange a marriage for him, he remembers that he still has a husband back home, so he returns to visit. What he finds is astonishing. During the twenty years he was away, his husband was driven from the family home by his stepmother and left with nothing. He lived in a leaky thatched hut, scraping a living from the land and raising two children alone. He even put his eldest son through the examinations, and the boy became a successful candidate. Zhang Yuming can hardly imagine how much hardship this tiny, frail person, who only comes up to his chest, must have endured over the years. He approaches his husband again. At first, the man briskly welcomes him in, rubbing his faded clothes and telling the children to put water on for tea. But the moment he recognizes Zhang Yuming, he goes mad. Jiang Yu is thin, half his hair has turned white, and his eyes are the only thing about him that shines, staring fixedly at Zhang Yuming. For the first time, Zhang Yuming understands Jiang Yu's lip movements. He says: Zhang Yuming, I hate you. Then he dies in Zhang Yuming's arms, giving him no chance to make amends. & Given another chance, Zhang Yuming gets to know his husband anew and clears up their misunderstanding early. He spoils his husband until he becomes the notorious little shrew of the neighborhood. Back in the village, whenever Zhang Yuming sneaks out for a drink, Jiang Yu grabs him by the ear and drags him all the way home. Later on, the usually dignified and proper residents of the capital are left dumbfounded by the newly arrived duke and his husband. The duke's husband, plump and rosy from being doted on, hikes up his skirt and chases the duke, a former military man, for two whole streets with a feather duster in hand. Zhang Yuming is grateful that he's tall and long-legged, so Jiang Yu can't catch him. But one day, Jiang Yu learns the five-word incantation that makes any man break out in a cold sweat. Panting, hands on his hips, Jiang Yu grits his teeth and says: "I'll count to three!" Zhang Yuming shudders and immediately behaves. After years of bickering and playful fights, one day Jiang Yu lies on Zhang Yuming's back, his lips close to Zhang Yuming's ear, as they head home in the sunset. For the first time, Zhang Yuming hears his usually sharp-tongued husband speak with shy tenderness. He says: Zhang Yuming, I love you. Content warnings: 1. Childbirth. 2. One-on-one, physically and emotionally. Theme: Nothing warms the heart like light