After Our Divorce, My Ex-Husband Regretted It

[The wife-chasing crematorium trope / second male lead takes the heroine / no getting back together]

Chu Yunluo has always carried a white moonlight in her heart: Qi Yu, the second son of the Marquis of Changping.

When she was young, someone plotted against her and pushed her into the water. He saved her, and she was lucky to survive.

After that, the young girl's heart belonged to the dashing boy who rode in fine clothes.

Qi Yu liked riding and archery, so Chu Yunluo secretly learned them. Qi Yu liked strategy games, so Chu Yunluo studied game manuals day and night.

She kept her feelings buried deep in her heart until one day, she secretly overheard her father say that Qi Yu had come to ask for her hand in marriage, but her father had rejected him because he considered his status beneath them.

For the first time, the usually shy young woman rebelled for the man she loved. She went without food for three days until her father agreed to the match.

She was carried into the Marquis of Changping's residence in an eight-carriage bridal procession, with a wedding dowry stretching ten miles.

But what awaited her was not a loving marriage, nor a harmonious life together. It was Qi Yu's cold face.

Chu Yunluo thought perhaps her father's earlier rejection had wounded his pride. So even after three years of marriage, with him never once entering her room, she still dutifully managed the household for him.

Until the day Qi Yu was officially named heir...

He brought her pregnant younger sister, Chu Yinong, back to the marquis's residence and treated the sister who had once caused her to fall into the water with tender care and attention.

At that moment, Chu Yunluo suddenly understood that the boy in her heart had long since "died."

Later, she knelt before her aunt, the Empress Dowager, for an entire day, simply to obtain a divorce decree.

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As the second son of the Marquis of Changping, Qi Yu had known from childhood that the title of heir would never be his, but he refused to accept it.

So when he accidentally learned that Chu Yunluo, the eldest legitimate daughter of Grand Tutor Chu, loved him, and that her status could help him claim the position of heir, he went straight to the Chu residence to ask for her hand.

Grand Tutor Chu looked down on him and rejected his request outright, leaving Qi Yu barely able to hold his head up in the marquis's residence.

So even though Chu Yunluo later went without food for three days and forced Grand Tutor Chu to agree to their marriage, and even though Qi Yu knew the rejection had nothing to do with her, he still took his anger out on Chu Yunluo.

He ignored her and humiliated her with his words, all to avenge the humiliation he had suffered years earlier.

Qi Yu knew Chu Yunluo loved him. He thought she would never leave him, no matter how terribly he treated her.

But after he brought Chu Yinong, who had always been at odds with Chu Yunluo, back to the marquis's residence, he received a divorce decree from Chu Yunluo the very next day.

The young woman whose every thought and glance had once been for him had "died" for good that day.

Qi Yu regretted it. He frantically searched for Chu Yunluo, but he could never find the young woman whose eyes had once held nothing but him.

Reader's guide:

1. Qi Yu is the male lead. He is not the female lead's love interest.

2. The female lead is a yandere, black-lotus type, and incredibly strong!

3. The second male lead is beautiful, strong, and tragic. He is the female lead's love interest.

Theme: No matter what your circumstances are, learn to treat yourself well first.