Fierce Devotion

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Xiao Yunxi, a concubine-born daughter bullied by her legitimate elder sister since childhood, was overjoyed to marry Zhou Yuanchen, a young and accomplished regent, handsome and charming, and talented in both letters and arms.

She'd lost count of how often she woke up smiling from a dream.

In their three years of marriage, they'd never argued or even raised their voices at each other. Zhou Yuanchen took no secondary consorts, had no bad habits, and spent every night in her Phoenix Palace.

They became the perfect couple that everyone in the capital envied.

Then her brother-in-law died unexpectedly, and Zhou Yuanchen came to stand before her with her frail elder sister, a woman so delicate a gust of wind could blow her over.

Xiao Yunxi swallowed her heartache and defied Zhou Yuanchen for the first time. "Either she stays in this manor and I leave, or I stay and she leaves. Who will you choose?"

She desperately hoped Zhou Yuanchen would choose her without hesitation, but the uncertainty in his eyes shattered her already fragile pride.

It turned out she was nothing more than her sister's substitute.

Now that the real thing had arrived, it was time for her to step aside.

Xiao Yunxi was reborn.

She was reborn on the hundredth day after marrying into the manor.

Who would want to be a regent's wife, nearly drained dry every day?

She was done!!!

But who could have guessed that the colder her attitude grew and the worse her temper became, the gentler Zhou Yuanchen acted?

He gave her the keys to the storeroom.

He let her decide everything, big or small, in the manor.

He even made a point of coming to explain himself whenever he went out or returned home.

He simply wouldn't let her leave the manor, and would fly into a rage if he didn't hear from her for a while.

Zhou Yuanchen suddenly realized that his young wife treated everyone in the manor better than she treated him.

She could even smile at a servant, but she was ice-cold toward him.

Had she fallen for someone else?

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Jiang Yuan took a fancy to a sickly, failed scholar from her village.

It was only because the sickly failed scholar was handsome as a jade carving, even if his health was poor. He couldn't lift a load or carry anything, and was out of breath every few steps.

Many people advised Jiang Yuan not to be blinded by his looks. A man like that would never amount to anything.

Jiang Yuan didn't care. She could earn money and support him.

The sickly scholar really was sickly. On their wedding night, they slept in separate beds.

Jiang Yuan opened a restaurant, then a cloth shop. She fed him reishi mushrooms one day and ginseng the next. She was about to become the richest woman in town for the sake of her darling husband, when the sickly scholar won her a triple top score in the imperial examinations and earned her a first-rank noble title.

On the night Jiang Yuan was brought to the capital, she gazed at the bright moon and asked the sickly scholar, "With your health, you probably can't have children. How about we adopt one?"

Who would have thought the sickly scholar would stride over with firm, powerful steps, bend down, and lift her into his arms?

Jiang Yuan sensed danger and turned pale with fright. "What, what are you doing?"

The sickly scholar's eyes burned as a mocking smile curled his lips. "How could an adopted child compare to one of our own?"

Jiang Yuan was stunned. "Can you even do that?"

Jiang Yuan regretted it later. Never ask a man, "Can you even do that?"

Theme: Life isn't perfect, but never give up