The Beauty's Scheme (Funeral Pyre)

[Love and hate, melodramatic groveling for forgiveness, the leads' names may change, but the core premise will stay the same]

In the fifteenth year of Yuanping, Crown Prince Xie Zhen marries Chu Ling, daughter of the Marquis of Chongan.

Everyone says Miss Chu has struck it lucky. The Crown Prince, usually aloof and indifferent to women, has fallen for her against all expectation. She'll have a life of luxury from now on.

But no one knows that Xie Zhen has been reborn.

In his previous life, he married Chu Ling for political gain and felt not the slightest affection for her. Unexpectedly, her thoughtfulness, kindness, and gentle devotion gradually won his heart. But just as he was ready to turn their playacting into a real marriage, she mercilessly took his life with the dagger he had given her.

Reborn, he intends to give her a taste of her own medicine. He'll make her suffer the pain of loving someone who doesn't love her back, and the humiliation of being toyed with. Once she has fallen deeply in love with him, he'll cast her down into the depths of despair himself.

But in the end, he falls for her despite himself and gives up on revenge. Unfortunately, by the time he regrets everything, she has already lost hope after years of his cruel taunts and lies. She drives the dagger into her own chest, leaving him with nothing but her bloodstained, lifeless body.

Holding her in a daze, he finally understands that he has lost to her completely in both lifetimes.

When Xie Zhen opens his eyes again, he is back on the eve of their wedding. He swears to leave the past behind and start anew with Chu Ling.

He climbs over the wall into her courtyard. Before him, a beauty sits by the window, smiling as she sends her maids away, her face full of anticipation and shy delight.

His heart floods with the joy of having her back, and he is about to go to her

when he sees her take out a dagger and slowly polish it. A cold glint passes through her eyes. "That bastard Xie Zhen deceived me twice. This time, I'll make sure he dies a horrible death."

Later, with the blade at his chest, he ignores everything and pulls her into his arms, tightening his embrace as blood soaks through his clothes.

"A Ling, please, don't leave me again."

- Black-hearted beneath a gentle facade x black-hearted beneath a gentle facade, love and hate, melodramatic groveling for forgiveness, rekindled love, 1v1, HE

- Three lifetimes in total. The story opens in the second lifetime, and only the male lead remembers the past. In the third lifetime, both leads remember.

- I started this story to try to build my emotional resilience, but please only insult the characters, not the author personally.

[Archived 2021-09-26]

Theme: Only by treating others sincerely can you receive the same sincerity in return