Peach Blossoms Herald Spring

After a lifetime of toil, Shen Zhuo was reborn as a young woman and wanted nothing more than to lie flat and live like a carefree slacker. So when her father asked her to choose a husband again, she decisively dumped her ex-husband and chose her older cousin, a man of noble status but poor health and a pitiful lot in life. Running the household is too much trouble. She'd rather be a widow. In the eyes of outsiders, Mu Zhan, heir to the Prince of Zhenbei, was a pitiable figure. His father had discarded him as a useless pawn in the capital, leaving the royal family to raise him into a wastrel. Aside from Xiao Yi, no one knew that after lying low for decades, Mu Zhan would rise to power in one fell swoop, stepping over the corpses of his opponents to claim the highest throne. Scheming and meticulous, Mu Zhan had everything planned out perfectly. The only exception was Shen Zhuo. He knew the well-behaved little liar who obediently called him Cousin was approaching him with an ulterior motive, yet he was still willing to lose himself in the lies she spun. It wasn't until some wild man appeared, calling the little liar "Qingqing," that Mu Zhan realized he was only her backup choice! Mu Zhan lowered his eyes with a smile and gently asked the little liar, trembling in his arms, "Yaoyao, is there something you'd like to explain?" Shen Zhuo thought she was marrying a sickly husband, only to discover he was a possessive yandere: "..." A scheming, possessive nobleman x a beautiful young lady who weaponizes her looks Reader's Guide: 1. The heroine is a Mary Sue, unbelievably beautiful, spoiled, and willful. 2. The ex-husband wants to win his wife back, but his ex-wife sends him straight to the crematorium. 3. Readers who require chaste leads, proceed with caution. Theme: Life doesn't give you a second chance