Has My Husband Died Today?

[Gentle, Kind Wife vs. Paranoid, Brooding Ghost Boy Covered in Longevity Locks] When Wen Zhao first transmigrated here, a sickly scholar took her in. The scholar was as beautiful as Guanyin, poor and frail, with the scent of medicine lingering around him. He would spit blood at the slightest provocation, as if he might die at any moment. He accepted that she was different from ordinary people and praised her cleverness and courage. He gave her a longevity lock he had worn since childhood, promising they would be together for a lifetime, just the two of them. After they married, she made sweet soups and pastries while he copied books and practiced calligraphy. They were still poor, but deeply in love. Then, at the restaurant where she delivered sweet soup, she saw a man who looked exactly like her husband. The man wore splendid silk robes and radiated nobility, lofty as an immortal descended from the heavens. Yet the longevity lock around his neck and the jade lotus at his waist were exactly like hers. She followed him and heard one of his companions ask, "Your Lordship, did you really play out that storybook romance with the country girl, yearning to be mandarin ducks rather than immortals?" The man chuckled. "As you said, it was only an act. At most, she's my mistress, taken without a matchmaker's arrangement." It turned out he was Ning Siyin, the naturally sickly young heir of the Duke's estate, for whom the household had spent all its wealth and effort, praying to every god and Buddha just to keep him alive one more day. She refused to accept this and made such a public fuss about divorcing him that the whole city was talking. He used both force and persuasion, disregarded propriety, and confined her in the inner courtyard, leaving her no freedom. The Duchess gave her two choices: enter the household as a concubine, or disappear forever. She resolutely chose the latter. Three years later, he looked at her with the same obsessive intensity as before. "A Zhao, you abandoned me back then. But I've already given you a chance to pick me up again." # Both are each other's first and only; older woman-younger man romance; the male lead is an adult when they marry # The male lead is genuinely frail, as beautiful as Guanyin, and covered in longevity locks Theme: Love and peace