After They Were Both Reborn, the Heir's Ex Faced a Fiery Reckoning

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Li Li, the adopted son of Prince Chen's household, is delicate and beautiful. Because he is frail and often sick, he was pampered at home from childhood and grew up alongside Xiao Muheng, the heir to the title.

As a result, he spent many years in love with his older brother, Xiao Muheng.

Even though Xiao Muheng saw him as a burden and detested him, never once deigning to look him in the eye,

Li Li never held a grudge. He still clung to Xiao Muheng day after day, playing chess and practicing calligraphy with him, following him around like a little shadow.

He thought that one day Xiao Muheng would be moved by his sincerity.

Until the day of a royal gathering, when the old Grand Secretary praised his looks. Xiao Muheng cruelly sent him to the Grand Secretary's residence, casting him aside like trash.

That night, the aged Grand Secretary leered at him. Li Li fought back with all his strength and escaped to Prince Chen's residence, barely alive.

But before he could cry, "Elder Brother, help!" a bucket of cold water was dumped over his head.

Xiao Muheng stood coldly on the steps and said just one word: "Filthy."

The water was icy, but Li Li's heart was colder still. Despairing, he fainted in a narrow alley.

When he woke again, he had been reborn two years earlier.

Li Li thought that this time, he would never go near his cold-hearted older brother again.

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Strange things were happening in the capital.

Li Li, the young master of Prince Chen's household, had died, but his body had not been buried. Instead, it was kept frozen in the estate's ice cellar.

The heir guarded it day after day like a madman, allowing no one near.

Every night, people heard him whispering to the corpse again and again: "It's good that you're dead. Now it's finally quiet."

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On what must have been the umpteenth day he fell asleep beside the corpse, Xiao Muheng awoke in the ice cellar.

The body was gone.

He searched for it like a madman, only to see Li Li alive and well in the courtyard, playfully tussling with a servant.

His hands trembled with excitement as he tried to approach, but Li Li glanced at him from afar, then disappeared around the corner.

As though it had all been a dream.

That night, he blocked Li Li's way again and pulled him into his arms. Overwhelmed to have him back, he wept as he said, "You're alive. Thank goodness."

Li Li pushed him away coldly. "Your Highness, our stations are different. Please behave with propriety."

Xiao Muheng froze.

Reborn in another life, he had still lost Li Li.

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*Both leads are reborn. Before being reborn, the shou suffers; afterward, the gong suffers.

*The plot serves the romance. There is no political intrigue, and the fictional ancient setting isn't explored in depth.

*One-on-one romance, happy ending.

Coming next: "After an O Pretends to Be an A, He Gets His Nemesis Pregnant." Blurb:

Luo Ye is a top researcher at an interstellar research institute. He always wears a white lab coat and gold-rimmed glasses, his cool, ascetic air making him seem unapproachable.

Everyone thinks he is a top Alpha, just like Wei Zheyu, the Empire's great general.

Only Luo Ye knows that, to help his mentor complete a secret experiment, he has carefully concealed his Omega identity all along.

One day, an accident causes Luo Ye to run into his nemesis Wei Zheyu, whose pheromones are in chaos and whose heat has come early.

The powerful Alpha pheromones trigger the Omega genes in Luo Ye's body. His legs instantly go weak, and under Wei Zheyu's relentless advance, his mind completely falls apart.

Afterward, Luo Ye wakes up aching all over, while Wei Zheyu is still unconscious.

He takes a deep breath, fights the urge to kill him, and injects Wei Zheyu with a hallucinogen, hoping to pretend nothing happened.

But before long, his belly begins to grow, and the pregnancy symptoms that follow are intensely agonizing...

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As the Emperor's own grandson and a celebrated general with countless military achievements, Wei Zheyu leads a carefree life. The only thing he can't stand is Luo Ye, who never gives him the time of day.

Especially lately. He has no idea how he managed to annoy that tyrant again, but Luo Ye always looks at him with six parts resentment, three parts tenderness, and one part murderous intent.

Until Wei Zheyu accidentally enters Luo Ye's private residence and is stopped in his tracks by the thick, sweet scent of Omega pheromones.

The bedroom door is half open. Luo Ye lies in disarray on a nest made of several military uniforms, restlessly drawing in the faint Alpha pheromones clinging to them. His skin is smooth as jade, and his lower belly is slightly swollen...

So the aloof, high-and-mighty Professor Luo is actually an Omega, and a pregnant Omega abandoned by some other man at that!

Wei Zheyu has just uncovered his nemesis's astonishing secret and hasn't even had time to celebrate when he spots his own name clearly printed on the tag of the uniform in Luo Ye's arms.

Wei Zheyu, the "other man," freezes on the spot.

After a long moment, he swallows and pushes open the door, walking in dazedly. His voice trembles. "Luo Ye, what the hell are you doing with my clothes? And don't even think about pinning this on me..."

"Get out!" A pillow flies at him. Luo Ye lifts his face, two bright, pitiful tears streaming down it. "Jerk."

Later...

Remembering his beastly behavior, Wei Zheyu asks cautiously, "How about having the baby?"

Luo Ye: "Not a chance."

Wei Zheyu argues earnestly, "I could die in battle any day! Do me a favor and leave me an heir, will you?"

Luo Ye glares at him. "A child whose father is dead is the most..."

Wei Zheyu hurriedly covers his mouth with a hand, his voice turning serious. "Then I promise I'll come back alive every time."

[I'll come back alive to love you.]

[Reader's Guide]

1. An attempt at a romance-focused story with some plot.

Theme: Don't wait until the flowers have withered to regret it.