The Chancellor Regrets Our Divorce

When Jiang Zhiyi wrote her divorce letter, she thought back on these past few years with Shen Fu. She had been wrong at every turn. She knew he loved her elder sister, yet she married him anyway. She knew he was cold-hearted, yet she still threw herself into the flames. Over the years, because he disliked them, she cut ties with her old friends and rarely even returned to her parents' home. Because he disliked it, she drank bowl after bowl of medicine to prevent pregnancy. When she unexpectedly conceived, she cautiously tried to sound him out, only to hear him say: "Get rid of it." In that instant, every last flame of love in Jiang Zhiyi's heart went out. She threw away the handkerchief she had kept hidden for years and left without ever looking back. ◆ Shen Fu became a chancellor while still young. He was as handsome as an immortal, yet his heart was harder than iron toward his own wife. He personally fed her the medicine that would end her pregnancy. When she left her divorce letter behind and walked away, Shen Fu remained calm and unmoved. But later, seeing her laughing and chatting with another man, he found it harder and harder to suppress the strange feelings in his heart. Until one sleepless night, he could no longer resist entering the room where she had lived, lingering over the scent left behind on her bedding and pillow. The handkerchief she had thrown away stood out painfully. It was the one he had given to the woman he loved when he was young. In that moment, Shen Fu regretted everything. From then on, he fell into an endless hell. ◆ At a banquet in the imperial gardens, the haggard young chancellor walked toward his divorced wife, step by step, under everyone's gaze. She leaned against a painted screen, speaking softly with the handsome man beside her. Shen Fu stopped in front of her and called out in a hoarse voice: "Yiyi, come back." Silence fell all around them. She glanced at him from the corner of her eye, utterly unconcerned. "No." Content warnings: 1. Old-school melodrama, the heroine comes to her senses from the start. 2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and there is no change of male lead. The author's next serial, How to Humiliate a Cold and Powerful Minister, is now updating: Pei Shu would never marry her. Wang Shiliu had known that from the very beginning. He came from a distinguished family and was a man of refinement and noble standing. She had an obscure background and was spoiled and shallow. He was also determined to destroy her father and brothers. Yet the moment Wang Shiliu first saw him, she fell for him head over heels. She betrayed her father and brothers for him, and risked her life for him. He rejected her in public, leaving her to endure mockery and contempt. Still, she followed him without a name or title, asking only to see him a little more often. Wang Shiliu had always believed that as long as he still had that almost identical face, she could overlook anything. But later, Pei Shu said he wanted to marry her. At last, Wang Shiliu realized that no one could replace the person in her heart. Not even Pei Shu. She didn't want him anymore. ◆ That frivolous, cunning woman who kept pestering him. Pei Shu had doubted her motives and despised her unscrupulous methods. But he had never imagined that after she leapt from a cliff and vanished without a trace, he would be so consumed by grief. Nor did he imagine that when he finally found her at the ends of the earth, her eyes would be fixed on another man, a man who looked so much like him. ◆ The newly appointed chancellor, Pei Shu, has few desires and keeps his distance from women. But no one knows that there is a woman locked away in his private residence. Night falls. Moonlight spills through the window lattice, washing the floor in silver. Chains rattle. White gauze covers her eyes. Pei Shu bends over her, her ankle gripped in his hand. "Now that you can't see, can you tell whether it's me or him?" The author's completed novels: The Wife of an Old Friend: A friend's wife is not to be coveted. Scheming for a Wife: The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is; coercive possession. The Beloved in His Palm: Entanglements across three lifetimes, a regret-and-redemption arc, love and hate. How Can She Be So Alluring: A scheming beauty, love and hate. Tales from the Eastern Capital: A cool, aloof female Daoist priestess and a free-spirited, dissolute young nobleman. After Losing My Memory, I Saved the Person Who Tried to Assassinate Me: A couple with secret identities, mutual healing. The Beloved in His Palm: A sweet and gentle beauty in an old-school romance. Theme: Cherish the person by your side.