The Lovesick Lady Wants a Divorce

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Pei Lujie was the man Qi Yangyang planned to cherish for the rest of her life.

Everyone in the Duke of Guo's household knew it, as did her aunt. Pei Lujie had known from the very beginning, too.

Qi Yangyang knew that if her aunt weren't Pei Lujie's stepmother, and if the Duke of Yingguo didn't feel indebted to her aunt, an orphan like her from a declining family would never have been able to marry Pei Lujie.

It didn't matter if Pei Lujie disliked her, or treated her coldly. They had a whole lifetime ahead of them, and all he had to do was accept her love.

In the five years since she married him, she had coaxed him into taking every dose of medicine.

When he was young, he'd served as the Crown Prince's stand-in and lived in a den of the dead in Qiangbei. He was afraid of the cold, the dark, and being alone. So Qi Yangyang found every excuse to stay by his side. On summer nights, she dragged him out to catch fireflies. In winter, no matter how fierce the wind and snow, a little yellow umbrella always waited for him beneath the archway when he finished work.

When the Pei army was desperate for money, she used her parents' dowry to help them.

She thought that loving someone meant asking for nothing in return, and not even caring how much they loved you back.

Everyone thought Qi Yangyang would love Pei Lujie for the rest of her life. Qi Yangyang thought so, too.

Then one day, she suddenly remembered that the young man who had risked his life to save her in Qiangbei all those years ago might not have been Pei Lujie.

And everything began to spiral out of control.

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"Pei Lujie only seems like a man of moonlit grace on the surface. Inside, he's gloomy, obsessive, jealous, and rotten to the core."

"And you're the only reason he can keep up that beautiful illusion."

"You walked away just like that, even though you used to act as if the world would end without him. How could he possibly take it?"

"Pei Lujie will die, and aren't you afraid he'll drag you down with him before he goes?"

"It's strange. When I loved him, I could love with all my heart and think of nothing else. I stood in the snow holding an umbrella over him, even though my own hands were covered in chilblains. I was afraid of the dark, too, but still forced myself to teach him how to catch fireflies. He spoke coldly and mocked me, and I was still happy to take it, still eager to keep trying. But now, I can't even stand being beside him for a moment."

#Once a love-struck fool realizes they've been in love with the wrong person, not even eight horses can drag them back. #

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Upcoming 1: I Won't Be the Heir's Wife Again

In her previous life, Jiang Funing married the heir as a penniless orphan. Everyone said she was lucky, as if a pie had fallen from the sky.

Only she knew that the entire marquis household regretted it.

The marquis and his wife treated her like their own daughter, but whenever anyone brought up the marriage, their faces filled with regret.

Lu Shian never said it outright, but anyone could see the burning look in his eyes whenever he looked at Princess Feiyan. Whenever he looked at Jiang Funing, his gaze was always annoyed, with a hint of contempt.

Reborn, Jiang Funing decided to take another path, one that would make everyone happy.

She would never be Lu Shian's wife again!

But then her former husband, Lu Shian, was reborn, too. This time, when she told him she wanted to take another path, he thought she meant she wanted to make up for the regrets of their previous life. He thought she wanted to live in Cuiwei Hall instead of Yannan Courtyard, learn to do business instead of poetry, and stop being so cautious so she could live freely.

He never imagined that she would leave him for a life that didn't involve being the heir's wife.

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Later, Lu Shian, who had always lived with unchecked arrogance, went completely mad.

Jiang Funing was his. She could forget about leaving!

Funing found the boy in red on horseback who had saved her when she was a child.

When Lu Shian learned that Jiang Funing truly didn't love him anymore, he stood on the riverbank in March, surrounded by lush grass and fluttering flowers. The spring warmth filled the Huai River, but he trembled all over, his face ashen.

Stubbornly refusing to let her go, he pleaded in a hoarse, broken voice, "What about our little Orange and little Tangerine? They'll be very, very good. Are you really not going to have them? And... what about me?"

Jiang Funing finally turned to look at him. She only sighed softly. "My lord, the last life is long over. This life still stretches before us. Let's both move on..."

Upcoming 2: My Childhood Friend's Brother Has Desired Me for Years

In her previous life, Liu Xiyi gave her heart to the wrong man and ended up broken in body and spirit. Her husband resented her so much that he burned her alive, dying with her.

Meanwhile, the First Prince Lu Yun, whom she had falsely accused of flirting with his younger brother's wife and thereby ruined, rose again, murdered his father, seized the throne, and had the tombs of Prince Rong and his consort dug up.

Just as Liu Xiyi thought he meant to whip her corpse in revenge, he ordered his men to whip Prince Rong's corpse instead.

His hands trembling, he lifted her up. His black sleeves, embroidered with gold clouds, gently wiped the soot from her face. In a hoarse voice, he said, "Xixi, you asked your big brother to help you get what you wanted, but is this really what you wanted?"

Liu Xiyi watched as he dressed her in an empress's ceremonial robes. Defying the ministers, he granted a burned corpse the rites of an empress and seated her on the phoenix throne. The palace servants passing outside the hall couldn't help covering their noses with their sleeves.

She remembered that when she'd forced him to withdraw his troops, she'd said her one wish in life was to try being empress once.

She knew Lu Yun had always treated her like a younger sister, doting on her and granting her every request.

Reborn, she decided to dump her faithless childhood sweetheart and repay Lu Yun for the dignity he'd given her in her previous life.

Back then, she, Prince Rong, and Lu Yun were all children living together in the Empress's palace. She and Prince Rong were the precious darlings of their maternal aunt, the Empress, while Lu Yun, born to a bandit's daughter, was treated as lowly and contemptible. He could only live in a leaky side hall that had fallen into disrepair, wearing clothes that had been patched over and over.

She saw the boy, whom she'd never treated well and had only considered a pawn, and quietly felt her eyes grow red. She carefully embroidered a cute rabbit over the hole in his knee, stitch by stitch, then invited him to eat the sweet steamed milk pudding she'd made herself.

The boy was overwhelmed by her kindness. From then on, he kept the old trousers she'd embroidered at the bottom of a trunk. On his desk, he kept a beautiful handmade wooden box that stank terribly. Inside was the enamel porcelain bowl she always used, decorated with a magpie crossing a bridge to meet an immortal. Whatever had been in it had turned green and grown mold, unrecognizable now.

A little scene:

"Big brother... Your Highness, I'm afraid Xixi really has to leave this time."

Lu Yun smiled. "Xixi, do you want big brother to help you come up with a way to win over Third Brother again?"

She shook her head. "This time, I'm really leaving. Take care, Your Highness."

The smile that had been as gentle as moonlight vanished from Lu Yun's face.

Later, he stormed into her chambers in the middle of the night, his black clothes soaked in blood and a severed head in his hand. His handsome features twisted with cruelty and helplessness.

"Xixi, your big brother has killed the female assassin who tried to seduce Third Brother. I'll help you be with him. Will you come back?"

"Xixi, why don't you call me big brother anymore?"

"Xixi, if you want it, your big brother will cut out his heart for you..."

Liu Xiyi was so frightened that she knocked over the sweet soup, spilling it all over herself. "B-because I don't want to marry Lu Sheng anymore..."

Lu Yun was suddenly anxious and at a loss. "Then who do you want to marry? I'll bring him here for you. If you don't know who you like, I'll bring all of them here."

Terrified he'd actually go kidnap someone, she hurriedly shouted, "You! I want you..."

Upcoming 3: The Black Moonlight Can't Escape

Peijin was mistakenly switched at birth as a child and grew up as the legitimate daughter of the marquis's household.

Meanwhile, Mingyu, the true and noble heir of the marquis's family, took her place and lived through a hellish existence. For all these years, even staying alive took everything he had.

At last, the two were switched back. Peijin cried and refused to return to her old home.

The Marchioness couldn't bear to part with her and wanted to keep her.

"If she stays, then what have I been through all these years?" Mingyu glared coldly. The Marchioness didn't dare keep her.

Peijin was afraid of life outside the estate and felt she owed Mingyu, so she did everything she could to please him.

"Don't you... want a little sister? I can go to school with you every day, give you all my favorite sweet cakes, and never let anyone bully you again! Please, big brother..."

"I'm not your big brother!"

Mingyu felt nothing but disgust for her.

Peijin had no choice but to leave.

Years later, Peijin knocked on the marquis's door again, desperate to avoid being sold by her birth father to an old rich man as his eighteenth concubine.

She knew that the heir Mingyu despised her most, so she didn't dare ask the main branch for help. Instead, she went to Second Madam Li.

Second Madam Li said, "Although my Zhizhi is a concubine-born son, given your situation... if you're willing, I'll have him take you as his concubine."

Peijin knew she'd never be able to return to the upper class in this life. Rather than be tormented to death by a horrible old man, she might as well stay in the marquis's household as a concubine. At least the family was strict, so she probably wouldn't be mistreated.

But on the day she was carried through the gates, she was kidnapped anyway.

And her kidnapper was none other than the heir Mingyu, the man she'd once dreamed of calling her brother.

She stared at him, hidden in the deep darkness, and almost burst into tears. "Being a concubine in the marquis's household isn't exactly a glamorous thing. Do you... really hate me that much?"

After all... she'd once sincerely protected him for a time.

"I do." The imposing man seated above her spoke coldly. "Unless... you're asking for me."

Lying on a bed covered in golden brocade, Peijin had only one thought: escape!

She had to escape! Because... Fu Mingyu was a madman!

P.S. While they are still related, the main characters have only a familial relationship. Romance begins only after that relationship ends.

Premise: Perseverance can lead you through the darkness to a brighter future.