After Marrying My Cousin in Someone Else's Place

Gu Cheng was the eldest son of the Minister of Revenue, an unwanted child raised in the countryside. When an imperial decree arranged his marriage, his family brought him back and ordered him to marry the heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, Xie Shi, in place of his younger brother.

The rage awakened memories of his past life.

In his previous life, he had been the crown prince, killed during a palace coup.

With old and new grudges piling up, he might as well rebel!

As for the imperial marriage decree...

Gu Cheng, who was just about to rebel and needed an ally: Well, I suppose I could go along with it.

He’d heard his betrothed, Xie Shi, was an arrogant, dissolute man who was impossible to get along with.

A few days later, he heard that Xie Shi had vomited blood in the street and didn’t have long to live.

On their wedding night, Gu Cheng looked at Xie Shi’s pale face on the bed. Hearing the name he’d had in his previous life, he suddenly froze.

Xie Shi was the cousin who had died taking an arrow for him in his previous life?!

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An imperial marriage decree awakened the memories of Xie Shi, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo.

He’d died miserably in his previous life, and now he had to endure this disgusting marriage to a man, arranged by a descendant of that damn emperor.

Since things had come to this, he might as well rebel and be done with it.

But there seemed to be something wrong with his head. He kept seeing his cousin, dead for many years, whenever he drifted off.

Then he learned the truth about his cousin’s tragic death and vomited blood in the street, losing half his life.

He never expected that the cousin he’d longed for would also be reborn.

On their wedding night, as Xie Shi clutched the other man’s hand, overwhelmed by pain, he forced a smile.

“Cousin, if I’d known it was you, I wouldn’t have put myself through all that.”

Reader’s guide:

1. They take turns as the top.

2. Gu Cheng and Xie Shi were cousins in their previous lives. They are unrelated in this life.

Theme: Given another chance at life, make up for some of your regrets.