The Year After Our Engagement Was Broken, She Married Someone Else

[The Second Male Lead Takes the Lead] [A Latecomer Rises to the Top in a Romantic Rivalry Showdown]

[The second male lead secretly tries to steal her away, only to discover the heroine is helping him do it]

Yu Jin had a perfect fiancé from the time she was little: the renowned heir of the Jiang family, a prestigious military clan. He was accomplished in both letters and arms, and treated her wonderfully. Then she had a dream. When she awoke, she promptly broke off her engagement to the Jiang family...

Lately, the teahouses in the capital had been abuzz with one question: Why had Miss Yu broken off her engagement to Young Master Jiang?

The Yu family was a minor household, while the Jiang family was a prominent clan at the height of its power. No one could make sense of the reason.

Lin Fei, son of the Grand Princess, sat in a teahouse with a group of scholars, enjoying the gossip as a distant relative of the Jiang family. He relished the drama and said, "If the girl suddenly changed her mind, what else could explain it? Someone must have stolen Young Master Jiang's girl."

Everyone agreed and began speculating about who the culprit might be.

Just as their argument grew heated, the person at the center of the story arrived.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the young lady walked up to Lin Fei and greeted him with a bright smile. "Young Master Lin."

Surrounded by strange looks, Lin Fei: ...

"I swear I don't know her. Let me explain."

"Cousin Jiang, let me explain..."

"Mother, let me explain..."

Not a single person was willing to hear him out.

Miss Yu: "Young Master Lin, spring is in full bloom. Would you care to enjoy the flowers with me?"

Lin Fei looked at the culprit before him. A spring breeze stirred the hem of his robe beneath the wall, and the struggle in his heart gradually scattered on the wind.

He thought: Is stealing someone's girl really such a big deal?

A little scene:

Lin Fei liked living a carefree life, but one day, a woman he couldn't ignore suddenly barged into it.

She was his cousin's fiancée, and he'd originally come back to attend their wedding.

But gradually, he realized they weren't suited for each other.

To repay a life debt, his cousin from the Jiang family took a courtesan as a concubine. Not long afterward, for reasons no one could understand, he went mad, obsessively investigating the courtesan's identity as a spy and insisting he wanted to prove that Miss Yu was the only woman he loved.

Lin Fei pulled a few strings to make sure his cousin never found out.

Lin Fei didn't know that, in the dream Miss Yu had, she and he had spent their lives together. But he walked the path of his previous life all over again.

#The face-slapping side couple from The Crown Prince Gets His Comeuppance, filling in the missing story~

#This blurb is from four years ago, so the writing style is very old-fashioned!

Coming soon: My Wife Changed Her Heart in Our Third Year of Wealth. If you like it, please add it to your collection~

Gusu

As Madam Wang of the Wang family lay dying, she called her only daughter to her bedside and left her these final words: "Take your marriage contract and go to Min Mountain at once to find the head of the Fu family. His tongue may be sharp, but he's a decent man. He has a son about your age. When you marry into that family, you may have to put up with some noise, but you'll have a peaceful life."

Min Mountain

The head of the Fu family also called his son to his side to give him his final instructions: "The Wang girl may not be very good at judging men, but she's quite capable. Her daughter is as beautiful as a fairy. Marry into her family, and even if you never amount to much, at least you'll live to a ripe old age in peace."

The day Mu Wushuang arrived at the Fu home after traveling over mountains and rivers, white mourning banners hung for miles across Min Mountain. Her fiancé, dressed in mourning clothes much like her own, was being driven away by his clan.

They looked equally wretched, like reflections in a mirror.

Mu Wushuang: ...

Fu Lincang: ...

No plan can outwit fate. That day, the heavens above them both collapsed. The golden children of their families became two stray dogs with nowhere to turn.

Without anyone to rely on, they couldn't lift a shoulder's load or hold a thing in their hands, and were as useless as could be. To survive, they spent their days trailing after their relatives, picking through whatever those people didn't want.

They lived that way for three years.

Mu Wushuang had had enough.

When the hard times finally ended, all she wanted was to treat herself.

Fu Lincang had suffered through enough hardship. He devoted himself to making money without end, because money was his whole life. One day, he got into a fight with a newly appointed top scholar from a prominent aristocratic family and demanded, "Where did you get that earring?"

"I found it."

Did he think Fu Lincang was blind? It was the very earring Mu Wushuang had worn the day before.

Members of the two great families crowded around the palace gates. Mu Wushuang, the key figure in the whole affair, was summoned to the heart of the storm.

After hearing her say, "I gave it to him," Fu Lincang didn't notice that he was grinning like a ghost. He composed himself and straightened his clothes before reminding her, word by word: "Family Head Mu, we built our lives from nothing together. You said that from then on, we'd share both glory and hardship. Now, even if you give a single needle or thread to some stray cat or dog, a share of it belongs to me, your husband."

He had every right to make them give it back.

Theme: Leave behind what makes you unhappy, and live toward the light.