Reborn, I Became the Powerful Minister's Darling

#The Reborn Guy Next Door Has His Eye on Me#

Su Qiaoqiao was born into a declining merchant family in Luoyang. She was beautiful, talented, and virtuous, and had been betrothed to a young marquis from the capital since childhood. Everyone envied her.

But when the young marquis was fifteen, he fell for another woman at the academy and declared that he was pursuing freedom in love! Su Qiaoqiao thought he was just playing around. Who knew that on the wedding day, the young marquis would elope with that young lady? And who should arrive to escort the bride but the young lady's rough-edged fiance?

From that day on, Su Qiaoqiao became the laughingstock of all Luoyang.

But before long, the people who'd laughed at her had egg on their faces.

Who could explain how that once dirt-poor hunter had made a dazzling rise to become the regent?

No one knew that in his previous life, Shen Ji had been consumed by his failures. To avenge the young marquis for stealing the woman he loved, he had forced Su Qiaoqiao to marry him.

With Su Qiaoqiao's stubborn personality, the two spent most of their lives making each other miserable.

When they were so poor they could barely afford food, Su Qiaoqiao scolded him: "Shen Ji, if you believe something is right, then keep doing it. Be brave and go for it. If you complain that the world is unfair while drinking yourself into oblivion, then you're a coward, a weakling! Shen Ji, don't make me look down on you!"

Shen Ji got dead drunk, but he remembered every word. The next day, he packed his things and enlisted without a word. Whenever he faced a setback, he remembered Su Qiaoqiao's words and fought all the harder.

But by the time he returned in glory as a great general, all that awaited him was Su Qiaoqiao's lonely grave, a thousand miles away.

Shen Ji sat by her grave, his hair turning white overnight. "To have a wife like her is the greatest blessing of my life!"

Fortunately, fate gave him a second chance when he was reborn. Shen Ji was determined to treat her right this time!

Proud young lady () x obsessive great general (who's had his eye on the female lead for a long time)

Content warnings:

* In his previous life, the male lead treated his fiancee as his idealized first love because of the influence of his elders. But he soon saw through her hypocritical, materialistic nature. After getting together with the female lead, he completely let go of his first love.

* There is heartbreak in the previous life. The female lead may fake her death or remarry; either way, she's someone the bastard can't have. This time, he has the upper hand, so expect sweetness and plenty of affection.

* One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, and each is the other's one and only, though both have unwanted admirers.

Theme: Fate decides who is meant to be