After Marrying My Black Lotus Husband

[Complete, currently revising] Wen Xueyao is the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor, breathtakingly beautiful and of noble birth, cherished by everyone around her. She also has a refined and elegant fiance, the heir to the Marquis of Ning. She is the darling of all. One day, Wen Xueyao had a dream. In the dream, she, a woman of such noble standing, fell for a lowly stablehand who was bullied by everyone at the hunting grounds and treated like an insect. He had risked his life to save her, and she fell for him deeply, unable to stop herself. Wen Xueyao did whatever it took to buy the stablehand's freedom and remove his status as a servant. She brought him into her household, cared for him, and raised him. She broke off her engagement for him and helped him reclaim his identity. But instead of receiving the joyous news that he would come to marry her, she heard that her father had been brutally killed and her elder brother thrown in prison. Only then did she realize it had all been his scheme. On the day her family was arrested and their home confiscated, he married the half-sister he hated most, with a lavish wedding procession stretching for miles. She awoke from the dream. This time, at the racetrack, Wen Xueyao watched coldly as the stablehand took an arrow for her, covered in blood and at death's door. Trembling, she turned and threw herself into the arms of her fiance, the heir to the Marquis of Ning. A little scene: Wen Xueyao and Ning Heng live together with mutual respect after marriage. There is no love between them, but she is content. What does it matter if her husband seems detached from worldly affairs? With a husband like him, she is, after all, the only and most honored Madam Ning. Until one day, Wen Xueyao stepped into the hidden chamber behind the study. The walls, floor, and bookshelves were covered with portraits of her. Every expression and smile had been captured, some of them faded with age. The portrait in the center still had wet ink. The person before the painting wore his robes half-open, his watery eyes clouded with desire. He was dressed in a gauzy skirt identical to the one he had personally helped Wen Xueyao change into that morning. When he met her startled gaze, the hand holding his brush trembled, and ink splattered onto his bare feet as he hurried toward her. Cool and ethereal, his voice almost demonic: "You've found me out, Xueyao." Everyone praised Ning Heng as an immortal in the clouds, untouched by worldly concerns and immune to love. But no one knew that through countless days and nights, he had hidden away in that chamber, drawing her with every stroke, longing for her, mad with desire. A secret crush come true Noblewoman X the dark-hearted heir who fell from his heavenly pedestal for her alone Reader notes: 1. The male lead's pursuit of his wife after the breakup ends in failure. The second male lead, Ning Heng, wins her over. One-on-one, happy ending. 2. Ning Heng is not what he seems. He appears gentle, but is actually a little crazy. 3. Before being reborn, the heroine was a beautiful but foolish love-struck girl. 4. Seven-year age gap. The heroine is 17 at the beginning. 5. Alternate setting, everything serves the plot. It's just a sweet everyday story about falling in love after marriage. 6. The cover is a limited-time CG by Ant Laoshi. Next book: I Was Reborn in the Tenth Year of My Marriage Jiang Suiyin and Zhou Linfeng were childhood sweethearts from equally matched families. They had been married for ten years, had a son, and lived a happy, fulfilling life. Then one day, while out in a garden, she accidentally fell into a lake. When she woke up, she had returned to a day not long after her wedding, ten years earlier. Lying on the bed, Jiang Suiyin recalled the sweet, harmonious life she had shared with her husband in her previous life. She thought that even if she had another chance at life, following the same path as before and taking things one step at a time would be a joy in itself. She happily turned and nestled into her husband's arms. He kissed the top of her head, still as tender and affectionate as he had been in the early days of their marriage. Perhaps because they had not been so intimate for a while in her previous life, she even felt that her newlywed husband was more passionate than before. But when she looked up, she met a pair of eyes that were both unfamiliar and familiar. The man sharing her bed was not her husband, Zhou Linfeng! He was her husband's elder brother, the stern and formidable man known for his ruthless methods, who held the high office of Chancellor: her eldest brother-in-law, Zhou Fuyan! Remembering how the two of them had occasionally crossed paths in the family residence in their previous life, exchanging no more than three polite words, Jiang Suiyin felt as if the sky had fallen. 1. Female lead is a virgin, male lead is experienced. One-on-one, happy ending. 2. Romance after marriage, reborn. Theme: Stay true to your original intentions and keep moving forward