Qingqing (Reborn)

[Complete. Please add my next book, Seducing the Lord, to your reading list! The blurb is below.] Blurb: The daughter of the richest man, peerlessly beautiful, adored by her father and admired by the heir to the throne. But she had terrible luck. She was kidnapped, her virtue was ruined, and she hanged herself. Reborn, Lin Qingqing listened to the story being told in a teahouse, her gaze icy. "A father kills his daughter, then slanders her virtue. How ridiculous!" As the master of the Sancheng Palace, Lu Anzhi made his living taking lives. He was born under the fate of a lone star cursed by the heavens. Until one day, he kidnapped a woman. She showed no sign of realizing she was a prisoner, and kept coming closer. She tended his wounds, fed him when he was hungry, and warmed his bed when he was drunk. Lu Anzhi gave a cold snort. "Just a beauty trap!" But when a hidden arrow came flying, she nearly died saving him. Lu Anzhi's fingers trembled, his eyes bloodshot. "Why save me? It was only a beauty trap! You were willing to risk your life!" The woman's face was as pale as paper, but her gaze was gentle and resolute. "Because I like you!" Lu Anzhi didn't know that she had lived through another life. He didn't know that, after she died, he had gone mad and slaughtered her entire family to vent his rage... Reader's Guide: Mutual salvation, one couple, happy ending. The first half takes place in the martial world; the second half involves the imperial court. Next book, Seducing the Lord, available for advance collection! An Ruo was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Dingguo, and the crown princess chosen by the emperor. Unfortunately, her parents died young, leaving her with no one to rely on. Her younger cousin stole her marriage, and six months later, when the crown prince died, she was made to take her place in the funeral sacrifice. Reborn in a single night, An Ruo immediately asked to break off the engagement. Then she knocked on the door of the Third Prince, Chu Yuanyi. This down-and-out prince had just been demoted to commoner, and his residence was desolate. She smiled warmly. "Is your residence perhaps in need of a wife, sir?" The noble ladies waited for a laugh as the emperor's favorite daughter married a commoner. They waited and waited, until the Third Prince ascended the throne, and still doted on his wife as if she were his life. * At first. On their wedding night, Chu Yuanyi looked at her gentle, lovely face in the candlelight, his expression indifferent. This wife had offered herself to him. She'd asked to break off her engagement, angered the emperor, yet gotten away unscathed. Then she'd arrived in all her finery to conspire with him. She was clearly shrewd and not someone who could give her heart easily. "If that's the case, then as Miss An says, we'll be courteous to each other and keep our distance." Later. He held her locked in his arms, rubbing his chin against the side of her neck as he asked plaintively, "Could you let me avoid sleeping in the study tonight, Madam?" ○ Marriage first, love later. ○ The heroine seeks revenge and makes her enemies suffer; the hero gets his comeuppance and falls hard. ○ A beautiful woman who seems innocent but is secretly calculating x a ruthless schemer. Theme: No matter how difficult life gets, never give up