Reborn and Married to the Regent

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Upcoming novels: The General’s Wife After Breaking Off the Engagement and Has the Heir Apparent Been Sent to the Crematorium Today? Please add them to your reading lists.

Blurb:

Jiang Li is the daughter of a county magistrate in Jiangnan. With a cold father, a vicious stepmother, and an overbearing stepsister, she lives every day on tenterhooks.

After marriage, she observes every rule and manages the household with grace, yet her husband treats her cruelly at every turn. He not only brings home a distant cousin and expects Jiang Li to wait on her, but even sets his sights on Jiang Li’s personal maid.

Only as she is being poisoned to death does Jiang Li learn that her stepmother orchestrated the marriage to seize the enormous dowry her mother left behind!

When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the night her stepmother locked her in the woodshed and forced her into marriage.

Remembering everything that happened in her previous life, Jiang Li’s almond-shaped eyes turn icy.

Fortunately, Heaven has taken pity on her and given her another chance at life.

Then every person who bullied, humiliated, or harmed her will pay. Not one of them will escape.

At first, to Lu Lingxiao, Jiang Li was simply a stranger who had once saved him from danger.

Since she had saved him once, Lu Lingxiao saw no harm in using his influence behind the scenes to help the young woman whenever she found herself in trouble.

But the more he helped her, the more her every smile and frown found its way into his heart.

One day, Jiang Li, now reunited with the Mo family, was publicly humiliated by the eldest daughter of the Duke’s residence. She lowered her eyes and endured it without daring to answer. Lu Lingxiao found it unbearable and was about to step in.

But the young woman turned around and set the other girl up to fall into the water, then laughed happily from the sidelines.

Lu Lingxiao pressed his thin lips together. A smile appeared on his usually inscrutable face. With a sweep of his wide sleeve, he ordered someone to deliver evidence of the Duke’s household forming a faction and selling official posts to the Court of Judicial Review.

That night, Lu Lingxiao found Jiang Li lounging on a couch and reading a storybook. He spoke to her frankly: "There are many powerful families in the capital. Even with the Mo family’s high standing, they can’t avoid being constrained in what they do."

Jiang Li looked bewildered for a moment, then asked, "What does Your Highness mean?"

Lu Lingxiao smiled. "Become the Regent Princess Consort, and all your problems will be solved."

A peerlessly clever beauty x a ruthless, powerful Regent Prince

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The General’s Wife After Breaking Off the Engagement

A clever, dignified young lady x a mad, scheming, black-hearted general

Lin Wan is the legitimate youngest daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites. With jet-black hair and snow-white skin, she is the most beautiful woman in the capital.

She has been skilled in the arts since childhood, is both talented and beautiful, and has an enviable engagement. All the noblewomen of the capital say she was born blessed with good fortune.

At the time, Lin Wan believed the same.

Until one day, she saw her fiancé walking hand in hand with a woman, their manner intimate.

That woman was the distant cousin her fiancé’s family had taken in just a few days earlier. He had even brought her to call on Lin Wan, where they’d shared tea and pastries...

How shameless!

That night, Lin Wan went to her father’s study to demand that he break off the engagement.

But to her utter shock, her loving parents suddenly changed their tune. They insisted she endure the humiliation and preserve the engagement, all because her wastrel elder brother needed this marriage alliance to pave his way.

They said:

"The Gu family is a century-old clan. You’re lucky to marry into such a prestigious family. How can you expect your future husband to love only you?"

"You should think about your elder brother’s prospects, not just your own future. We raised you, so don’t be so selfish."

"Little sister, what’s wrong with a man having a little fun? No matter how pitiful that woman seems, she can’t take your place as his principal wife."

Lin Wan was dumbfounded by their filthy words.

By a twist of fate, she learned that she was an orphan her parents had picked up by the roadside. All these years, they had taught her poetry, etiquette, music, and painting only so they could use her as a stepping-stone to climb into high society.

But Lin Wan wasn’t about to sit back and accept her fate.

After enduring insult after insult, as well as threats and coercion, she turned the Vice Minister Lin’s household upside down, then left with a letter severing all ties.

Everyone thought she couldn’t survive without the Lin family. But just a few months later...

Her adoptive parents, her wastrel elder brother, her fiancé, and his distant cousin were all driven into desperate straits. They no longer even had the right to look up to her.

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In his sixties, Grand Tutor Xie lost his legitimate son and daughter-in-law. His only remaining wish was to find his legitimate granddaughter, who had been missing for many years.

After finding Lin Wan, Grand Tutor Xie treasured her like nothing else. He not only had the entire Xie household dote on her, but also asked his prized student, General Lu Cheng, to protect her like an older brother.

At first, Lu Cheng kept his mentor’s instructions close to heart, looking after Lin Wan carefully while maintaining his distance out of respect for propriety between men and women.

But the more he protected her, the more her every smile and frown took up residence in his heart.

Lu Cheng had always been a cool, self-possessed man who planned everything in advance. But when faced with that clever, charming young woman, he forgot all rules and restraint. All he could say was, "What are you afraid of? Even if you bring the heavens crashing down, I’ll be there."

[Short Scene]

Since reuniting with the Xie family, Lin Wan’s life has grown more and more comfortable.

One day, her aunt brought over portraits of eligible young men from the capital’s great families, hoping to find her a husband.

Lin Wan was about to shyly accept when Lu Cheng suddenly blocked her way.

The man’s tall figure overshadowed her. His phoenix eyes narrowed as his gaze fell on the young woman’s fair neck. "Little girl, you seem to have plenty of free time these days. How about taking on the job of General’s wife?"

Lin Wan was shocked. "But you... you’re my older brother!"

Lu Cheng fell silent for a moment, then leaned down to look into her misty almond-shaped eyes with an amused smile. "Oh? Then tell me, what makes me your brother?"

Has the Heir Apparent Been Sent to the Crematorium Today?

Jiang Yao is the adopted daughter of a treacherous minister. She has blossomed into a beauty, and many sons of powerful families with excellent reputations have come to ask for her hand.

But her treacherous father, hoping to curry favor with the powerful, forces her into a scheme to spend a night with Gu Yuan, heir to the Duke of Dingguo, who wields great power at court.

To save the lives of her birth mother and younger sister, she swallows her humiliation and agrees.

This shameful scheme leads to Jiang Yao marrying into the Duke of Dingguo’s household as the heir’s wife.

Knowing she has used underhanded means and wronged Gu Yuan, Jiang Yao always remembers her place and never dares to make a mistake in the Duke’s mansion.

She obeys him in everything, and even when he takes her fiercely in bed, leaving her unable to bear it, Jiang Yao never resists.

Six years pass in this uneasy peace, and she still has not conceived. When she visits a doctor, she learns that the nourishing tonic she has been drinking all these years was actually birth control medicine, prepared at Gu Yuan’s order.

On further inquiry, she discovers that her mother-in-law recently brought a niece from her own family into the mansion, intending to marry her to Gu Yuan as his secondary wife.

Jiang Yao is already frail, and the shock makes her cough up blood. From then on, she is bedridden and on the verge of death. Before long, she dies.

When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the year she was about to turn fifteen.

She sees her father’s blustering, cowardly face as he threatens her birth mother and younger sister’s lives to force her to drug Gu Yuan. She pretends to obey, but then tells Gu Yuan everything.

In this life, she will not marry Gu Yuan again.

She will use his power to bring down the entire Jiang family and find a way forward for herself and the people she cares about.

At some point, Gu Yuan, the haughty and aloof heir to the Duke of Dingguo, a man as noble as the moon and breeze, suddenly began attending banquets more and more often.

Whenever he went, he would ask the page beside him, "Has the Jiang family’s Fifth Young Lady arrived?"

One day, Jiang Yao asked to see him, and Gu Yuan hurried to invite her in.

He didn’t receive the drugged wine that the trembling girl had offered him in his previous life. Instead, she said, "My adoptive father intends to drug Your Lordship and frame you. If you don’t mind, I’m willing to serve you."

But having lived again, Gu Yuan had no interest in the evidence against that man from the Jiang family. What he wanted was Jiang Yao.

Theme: Even when life is hard, be brave and strong, and face a brighter future.