The Heir I Once Played With Was Reborn

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Currently serializing: My Husband Acts Strange After I Ask for a Divorce. Check the author's page or the bottom of this blurb.

Blurb:

The prime minister had a daughter late in life. Her name was Luo Yao. With cheeks as fresh as lychee and skin as smooth as jade, she was a rare beauty.

Unfortunately, she fell into the water as a child and got a fever that damaged her mind. She became a simpleton.

Luo Yao was engaged to her distant cousin, a top-ranking scholar, but fate had other plans. The emperor personally arranged a marriage, betrothing her to the young lord, a man everyone in the imperial capital knew was best left alone.

Not long ago, the empress had hosted a garden party for the young lord and invited eligible daughters from the families of all the ministers, but every one of them made an excuse to stay away.

Luo Yao was among them.

On their wedding night, terrified, she timidly tugged at her husband's sleeve and lied. "I-I didn't stay away from the garden party because I didn't want to go. M-my foot was hurt, so I couldn't..."

The young lord's eyes softened, his mania hidden away. He spoke tenderly into her ear. "Yao Yao, do you have feelings for me?"

"I-I do."

After that, whenever she cried, his heart would soften. He held her and gently soothed her to sleep.

*

The young lord doted on her in every way, and Luo Yao gradually began to feel that she was truly happy.

Until one day, he found out she'd lied on their wedding night. He pinched her chin and smiled obsessively. "Yao Yao lied. She has to be punished."

Luo Yao blinked at him in confusion. A moment later, her eyes filled with tears. Clutching his robe in her small hands, she sobbed uncontrollably. "I'm sorry, Yao Yao was wrong. I won't lie again..."

He narrowed his eyes, the corners bloodshot, and curled his lips into a nearly cruel smile. "You have to say you love me."

*

In his previous life, Chi Mingqing kept someone hidden in his heart. He cherished and protected Luo Yao. If she wanted someone dead, he killed them. If she wanted to be empress, he swept away every obstacle. But in the end, all he received was an imperial edict announcing his death. He had given his heart to the wrong person.

He was reborn at fourteen and discovered that Luo Yao had become a simpleton, soft and easy to bully.

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine is not reborn. She will gradually recall some things from her past life, but because she's simple-minded, she thinks they're dreams. She won't become clever later on, either.

2. The male lead and some supporting characters are reborn.

3. One-on-one romance: a crybaby, sweetly clueless girl x a scheming, obsessive male lead.

Blurb for My Husband Acts Strange After I Ask for a Divorce:

After a great fire, Liu Zhaozhao became an orphan, and her betrothed changed from the young lord of the Pei family to Pei Jing, the Pei family's notorious eldest son born to a concubine.

After they married, Liu Zhaozhao discovered that Pei Jing was nothing like the rumors. He was quiet and indifferent, neither close to her nor distant.

She thought that was simply his nature, until she saw him speaking gently to the young Miss Xu. Only then did she understand.

The old servants in the manor said that if not for her, Pei Jing would have married Miss Xu.

*

Liu Zhaozhao was heartsick, but willing to let them be together, so she asked for a divorce.

That was the first time she saw Pei Jing act as cruel and violent as the rumors claimed. He crushed a teacup in his hand, heedless of his wound, and stared at her with dark eyes as if he might crush her next.

Liu Zhaozhao lost her nerve. "Forget I said anything..."

But Pei Jing acted as if she'd betrayed him. "You've grown tired of me."

"That's all right. I have plenty of other skills. I just haven't had the chance to show them. The young men out there might not be as good as me."

*

Pei Jing fell in love at first sight with a young woman at his younger brother's birthday banquet. For the first time in his life, he wanted someone all to himself, but she was destined to become his younger brother's wife.

So he went to war and won countless honors, thinking that even if she married someone else, he could rise high enough to use his power to make her marry him instead.

He never imagined that a great fire would make things a little simpler.

With a small bit of scheming, he won her hand. Afraid of frightening her, he carefully cherished and protected her. Just when he thought they had become a devoted couple, the young woman told him she wanted a divorce.

Don't even think about it!

Even in death, you'll be a ghost by my side.

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead has never loved anyone before.

2. They marry first and fall in love later. This isn't pure fluff, and there will be some angst.