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Blurb:
When Gu Ningxi asked for Tao Xinhe's hand in marriage, he praised her as “resolute and dependable.” On their wedding day, he swore before everyone, “One heart, one lifetime.”
Tao Xinhe believed him without question and devoted herself to being a good partner to her face-blind husband.
Knowing that Gu Ningxi saw everyone as having a face like a roof tile, she never changed her clothes or perfume, until he felt comfortable holding her in his arms.
She accompanied Gu Ningxi to banquets and gatherings, reminding him of guests' names and backgrounds so he could shed his reputation for arrogance.
She kept him company as he mourned his mother, endured his grandmother's coldness, and dealt with his uncle and aunt's entanglements, leaving him free of worries.
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But none of it could outweigh the fact that Gu Ningxi could see Mo Qiqi's face. To him, only Mo Qiqi was vivid and charming. Everyone else was a blur.
He gazed at Mo Qiqi with focused attention, coaxed her with soft words, and let her touch him. For her, he deceived and neglected his wife, and couldn't even recognize Tao Xinhe when she changed her clothes.
Later, Tao Xinhe's heart died. Resolute as ever, she asked to leave, leaving behind a divorce agreement. Her father and younger brother treasured her like a jewel. She regained her spirit, and when she heard that her former husband had brought Mo Qiqi into his home, she merely laughed it off.
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Gu Ningxi suddenly came to her door, humbly begging her to change her mind.
Tao Xinhe gave a cold laugh. “Lord Gu, you're skilled at painting. Paint a portrait of me, and then we'll talk.”
He coughed up a mouthful of blood from the depths of his heart. “I will.”
A face-blind man painting a portrait? Tao Xinhe didn't believe he could do it, and waved him away.
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Tao Xinhe chatted happily with a dashing man, thinking she might as well give love another chance.
Gu Ningxi arrived after a long journey, clutching a portrait, his eyes red and his clothes disheveled. “I don't know if I got it right. They all said it looks like you.”
Important warnings: The male lead will not be replaced. He will eventually win his wife back, and they will have a happy ending. Neither lead will have a sexual relationship with anyone but the other.
The male lead is a scoundrel in the early part of the story, without realizing it, and lacks empathy. He gradually improves himself during the later groveling arc. If you need a perfectly virtuous male lead, please don't read this. Let's part ways in peace and each find a story we like.
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Blurb:
“Save the mother or the baby?”
“The baby!”
A man's voice, hoarse and frantic.
The young wife is dying in a difficult childbirth. Hearing her husband Jiang Mo make his decisive choice through the window, she is forever scarred by it. However, after leaving behind twins, a boy and a girl, she dies and is reborn in the modern world as Xing Qingchan, where she enjoys a completely different, smooth-sailing life.
Reborn into her life before that one, just as she is about to die in childbirth, Xing Qingchan can't help feeling angry. Her immediate priority, of course, is to stay alive and safely deliver the babies.
She can't stand Jiang Mo, a true man of the old era. He clearly loves his wife, yet abandons her to go to the capital and enjoys the company of his concubines. He knows his mother is overbearing and muddleheaded, yet lets her make all the arrangements for his wife's labor. He spends his whole life a widower, and deserves it.
But with disaster looming, Xing Qingchan has no choice but to rely on him.
Holding her nose and making outrageous demands, Xing Qingchan asks Jiang Mo to stay in the delivery room and oversee things. She never expected him to agree. An old-fashioned scholar actually agrees to a request everyone else thinks is absurd?
Holding her newborn twins, Xing Qingchan says reluctantly, “I owe you one.”
Once her life is out of danger, Xing Qingchan has to think about the future. Her plans don't include Jiang Mo, and she's undecided about the children, too. After hitting a wall, she realizes that becoming self-sufficient is practically impossible.
As a liberal arts student, she can't change the world. Instead, she gradually earns a reputation as an excellent mother, finally settling into the role of an official's wife and putting down roots in this era, making a life of her own within the limited world available to her.
But what is she supposed to do about Jiang Mo, who is becoming more and more to her taste, and has learned to be considerate and faithful to his wife? Wouldn't it be better to keep their distance and remain merely the children's parents? Why is her heart fluttering against her will?
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Jiang Mo becomes a model civil official. He reflects that he has done right by his ruler above and the people below, but has wronged his wife, who died young in childbirth, and their children. He failed to raise them properly, and when he died, no descendants of the Jiang family were there to see him off.
Suddenly reborn just before his wife is due to give birth, Jiang Mo resolves to start over and devote more time to his wife and children, creating an exemplary family with a virtuous husband, capable wife, filial sons, and well-mannered daughters.
However, his young wife is very different from the one he remembers from long ago. She has a strong mind of her own, which surprises Jiang Mo and gradually wins his heart. He gives in to her and pampers her, even defying his mother for her, until he truly sees her, respects her, and understands her. “If you held office, you'd far surpass me.”
She is not only the children's legitimate mother and guide in life, but also his own guiding light. For the first time, Jiang Mo rashly gives her his whole heart and soul, asking only that they share a bed in life and a grave in death, and spend their lives understanding and relying on each other...
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More than 90 chapters have not yet started at the crematorium, and the heroine, well, how should I put it, is rushing to be the first person to commit a crime. It can be said that she is both pretentious and independent, making her divorce like a joke. After the divorce, she thought about her ex-husband day and night, and she couldn't bear to continue being a housekeeper, so she remarried. It's weird to see how pretentious she is every day. I don't know how to make all the characters in it look pretentious, and the male protagonist is even more of a soft-boiled man, a lunatic.
I'll silently give you a negative comment. I haven't done so many times after reading a novel for so long. This novel is really weird, weird, super weird.
I used to hate that the male protagonist sympathized with the female protagonist, but now I feel that the two of them are a perfect match, plus Mo Qiqi, brother, sister-in-law and step-sister, this family of three is also perfect, which is pretty good
Oh my god, the heroine is more pretentious than the hero. She is a real hypocrite... I want to go back to her big son immediately. How can I make the heroine look so disgusting? She is a scumbag and a bitch. These pictures of the heroine make me want to vomit. It's a waste of my money. If you don't want to write about the crematorium, don't engage in copywriting fraud.
Mo Qiqi's so-called "innocence and ignorance of the world" should not be an excuse for her to interfere in other people's relationships and should not be forgiven.
I used to sympathize with the heroine, but now I think she deserves it, and she is a good match for the hero.
It's chapter 75. I feel like I don't need to torture anymore and just make up. The heroine has never let go. The hero hasn't done anything yet. The heroine is worried about her all the time. I don't know why everyone is written in such a pretentious way. The male and female protagonists are a perfect match.
It's a weird family. The younger brother-in-law only cares about money, the younger sister wants to be the third child, and the husband is unreliable, which makes the heroine miserable.
Chapter 77 is over. The female protagonist is being mean to the male protagonist from time to time, like a psycho. The male protagonist has not made any progress. I will probably give up after reading it for a day or two, but it is really boring.
Everyone around the heroine doesn't take her seriously. The girls served by her younger siblings don't listen to her. The heroine is really a failure in life. They treat her words as farts. That Qingfang still sympathizes with Mo Qiqi.