Reclaiming Happiness

The Yin family's rebellious son has returned. He seizes the position of family head and wipes out the old estate with a wave of his hand.

Miaoyi, whose life had always gone smoothly, now keeps her head down in the back courtyard, quietly waiting for her fiancé to marry her and take her away from this gloomy residence.

But on their wedding day, her husband-to-be is implicated and arrested. Panic-stricken, Miaoyi kneels in the courtyard in her bright red wedding dress, begging Yin Zheng to show mercy.

Her numb body lies prostrate on the cold stone bricks. After a long while, the hem of an elegant, ornate robe appears before her. She raises her pale face. "O... Older Brother, can you let him go?"

The young family head looks down at the trembling woman, concealing the madness in his eyes. In a low voice, he says, "All right, if you stay."

Miaoyi is so terrified she forgets to cry. Her icy hands are enveloped in his.

She once helped Yin Zheng, and thought he would remember her kindness. She never imagined he would repay her kindness with betrayal...

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Time passes. The warm spring breeze returns, and blossoms fall like snow.

Leaning softly against a chaise, the woman gazes out the window, just as she did all those years ago when she helped him.

Yin Zheng winds a lock of the beauty's dark hair around his fingers, his gaze full of adoration. "Having Mia'er is wonderful..."

Warning: Over-the-top melodrama. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and they are not related by blood.

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In the second month after marrying into the Qin family, Meng Yuanyuan found herself alone in an empty bridal chamber. It wasn't because her husband had died or gone away. His birth parents had claimed him back.

Before leaving, He Kan asked if she would come with him. She shook her head. He turned and left without looking back. He left the Qin family a generous estate in gratitude, settling his debt to them.

Meng Yuanyuan wasn't surprised. Everyone knew she had used underhanded means to ruin He Kan's reputation, and that he had married her to protect his good name. Now that he was no longer the Qin family's second son, their marriage was naturally null and void.

She settled down and lived a quiet life.

Unexpectedly, a year later, the Qin family's eldest uncle gambled away the family fortune and even signed a contract, putting Meng Yuanyuan up as collateral.

With nowhere else to turn, she fled a thousand li to the prefectural city with her not-yet-adult sister-in-law and knocked on the He family's door.

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The He family was an eminent household, and its eldest legitimate son, He Kan, was a man of exceptional looks and talent, the pride and hope of his clan. Naturally, his family would never accept the crude village woman he had once married.

He Kan himself was clear-headed. In gratitude for the family's kindness in raising him, he gave her a corner of the estate where she could stay, but never paid her any attention.

Then one day, a woman asked around the estate for the young master's study. She had a graceful figure and a radiant beauty, and everyone finally saw what the village woman living in the back courtyard really looked like.

Meng Yuanyuan thought her sister-in-law had settled in and went to discuss matters with He Kan. "Thank you, Young Master, for looking after us. I'll leave in a few days."

Seeing that she had been well-behaved these past few days, He Kan gave her a casual glance. "You can stay at the estate if you like."

When she withdrew demurely, he assumed she had agreed.

The next day, He Kan ran into Meng Yuanyuan in the back alley. She was meeting her childhood friend and cousin, who had come from her hometown, to discuss returning home.

For the first time, He Kan felt that he ought to personally teach his wife a lesson.

Didn't she know that even after death, a wife must share her husband's grave?

Theme: Optimistic people can find opportunity in every crisis and keep striving forward