In her previous life, Liu Biwu was a low-ranking maid at the Prince of Yu's residence. After an accident left her carrying Prince of Yu's child, his favorite concubine took the baby and claimed it was her own, while Liu became the young master's wet nurse.
Later, Prince of Yu ascended the throne, and the young master entered the Eastern Palace as Crown Prince.
Thirteen years later, the Crown Prince was framed by villains, and Liu Biwu was forced to drink poison and buried with him.
Reborn, Liu Biwu wanted to defy fate and change her life, only to discover, to her dismay, that she had returned to the third day after the incident with Prince of Yu.
For the sake of the child in her womb, Liu Biwu took a risk and sought out the Duke of Anguo's household.
The next day, the long-missing daughter of the Duke of Anguo returned.
Liu Biwu thought she would be safe from then on. All she needed was a chance to leave with her child and live far away from worldly affairs.
What! The Empress Dowager wants to arrange a marriage? And to that scoundrel Prince of Yu, who can't even tell who his child's mother is?
No, thank you. I'm leaving!
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Yu Huaixu was reborn as a one-year-old baby.
The first thing he wanted to do upon waking was make sure his former life's wet nurse, who was also his birth mother, got everything she deserved, and no longer had to bow and scrape or lower herself for others.
But how did this happen?
His former life's wet nurse had become the Princess of Yu in this life.
His father, who had kept his distance from women and always been dignified and self-restrained in his previous life, held his mother in his arms and gazed at her tenderly as he pointed to him. "It doesn't matter whether he's my child. As long as you're mine."
Yu Huaixu was stunned.
Wait, isn't this story going a little differently?
Also known as "The Crown Prince: How Did I Go from Nobility in My Past Life to a Bastard in This One?" and "What Do I Do When My Wife Wants to Run Away with My Child? Help!"
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, happy ending.
2. The heroine and her son are reborn; the hero is not.
3. This story takes plenty of liberties, so don't scrutinize it. Read for fun, and feel free to leave if it isn't your cup of tea. Thank you.
"The Concubine Exchange"
When Liu Qiqi was fourteen, her aunt sold her to the Shen family in a neighboring village for five taels of silver. The Shen family's only son, Shen Wenyu, was a well-known scholar in the surrounding villages.
Remembering that he had once saved her life, Liu Qiqi entered the Shen household full of hope. But what she saw was her husband's deeply furrowed brow and disgusted expression.
He thought her coarse and ugly, ignorant and uneducated, and never wanted to touch her.
Faced with her husband's coldness and her mother-in-law's constant troublemaking, Liu Qiqi endured it all. She poured tea and served soup for him, learned to read and write for him, and learned needlework for him, hoping that one day he would turn around and look her way.
But after five years of hardship, all she got was a casual remark from him after he passed the imperial examinations and rose to prominence:
"Liu Qiqi, I've given you to someone else."
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Shen Wenyu's life went smoothly. The only stain on it was the concubine his grandmother had chosen for him when he was eighteen.
The farm girl was emaciated and illiterate, and not at all the woman he wanted.
A few years later, after passing the imperial examinations, he reluctantly took her with him to the capital, for the sake of the years she had spent serving him.
As a newly appointed top candidate in the palace examination, he saw the capital's splendor in a single day and grew ever more disgusted with the lowly concubine at home.
Then, at a banquet he had been invited to attend, the Marquis of Wu'an, a man who had helped the new emperor seize power and was now enjoying a meteoric rise, proposed exchanging a beauty for that humble farm girl.
Shen Wenyu could hardly have been more pleased. He eagerly handed her over.
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Meng Songxun, the Marquis of Wu'an, was nearing thirty and still unmarried. Countless noblewomen in the capital wished to become the marquis's wife.
But no one expected the emperor to suddenly arrange his marriage to a woman from a noble family who seemed to have come from nowhere.
On New Year's Eve, the Marquis of Wu'an attended the palace banquet with his new wife. Everyone craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the beauty he had hidden away.
At the banquet, Shen Wenyu, lost in a haze of drink and sorrow, raised his eyes and was stunned.
Amid the glittering lights, the marquis's wife smiled gently, her beauty dazzling. She leaned against the marquis shyly, never sparing Shen Wenyu a glance.
Her familiar features were so much like those of the woman who had once obeyed his every word, the concubine he had sent to the marquis's residence and who had died there. Shen Wenyu was overcome with grief, and a sudden sweetness of blood surged up his throat.
He regretted it...
Reader's Guide:
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners.
2. Shen is the second male lead, and his regret comes far too late.
3. This is a story about a male lead rescuing the heroine from misery as she gradually finds herself again.
4. The theme of this story: Stay away from scumbags and reject emotional abuse.
"The Lame Man I Married Ascended the Throne"
In the twenty-fifth year of the Tiancheng era, Emperor Wen'an died and a new emperor ascended the throne.
Su Min, a brave and accomplished general, captured the enemy and was made Duke of Yi, rising to great prominence. At the same time, Su Zhier, the duke's legitimate daughter who had been lost for sixteen years, returned to her family. Suitors flocked to their door.
Half a month later, Su Zhier was betrothed to the heir of the Marquis of Zhennan. She accompanied her grandmother to meet the Grand Empress Dowager at the palace, where she unexpectedly saw a familiar face seated high above them.
The new emperor looked at her gently, but the cold glint in his eyes made her shudder.
Su Zhier's smile froze, and she nearly twisted the handkerchief in her sleeve to shreds.
Will someone tell her why the new emperor looks exactly like the lame husband she once married!
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The Sixth Prince, Ming Yu, was upright and refined, peerlessly handsome, and dearly loved by the emperor for his sharp mind and intelligence. But at the age of twenty, he was framed and ambushed, leaving his left leg crippled and sending him into exile in a remote part of the south.
Heartbroken and devoid of hope, Ming Yu met a farm girl.
To avoid being sold off by her aunt as the sixth concubine to a local elderly gentryman, she schemed to get him drunk. The next morning, she sat wrapped in the bedding, weeping like a flower in the rain.
"Now that my virtue has been compromised, you'll have to marry me and take responsibility."
Looking at the delicate, stunning beauty before him, Ming Yu's gaze darkened slightly, and, as if possessed, he nodded.
The woman always called him "Husband" in a bright, sweet voice. She sewed his clothes and shoes, and washed her hands to make him a meal.
Ming Yu's frozen heart was eventually warmed. He taught her to read and write, play chess, and compose poetry. For the first time in his life, he gave his heart to someone and learned how to treat a woman well.
But a year later, she suddenly took the family's belongings and disappeared, leaving behind a letter of divorce.
When they met again, she was smiling like a flower, transformed into the legitimate daughter of a duke, and already engaged to someone else.
Remembering her promise that they would be together for life, Ming Yu rubbed the cool rim of his cup, a mocking smile rising to his lips.
She always said he was kind, but she didn't know he never forgot a grudge!
Since she chose to get involved with him in the first place, she would never escape him, not even in death!
Also known as "My Husband Turned Evil After I Ran Away"
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, happy ending.
2. Farming in the first half, court politics in the second.
The heroine isn't scheming or cruel. She had her reasons for leaving.
Theme: No matter what adversity you face, keep your heart turned toward the light and keep moving forward. That's how you find happiness and joy.