Ten Years After Marrying My Master

Volume One is complete and available to read.

Volume Two: The ex will have to suffer to win her back.

1.

Ten years after marrying my master, we treated each other with courtesy and respect.

I thought we could be the finest couple in the world,

and that I could become the virtuous, gentle wife of legend.

Until that night, when he stood beside my bed, holding his life-bound sword.

The moonlight was like a blade, his sword gleamed coldly, and his gaze was colder still.

He pointed his sword at me.

He meant to kill me.

Ten years had passed like a dream. It turned out that the entire decade of our marriage had been nothing but a trap.

Yet he was still wearing the clothes I had sewn for him,

and the shoes he once said were the prettiest pair I had ever made,

and the tassel I had crafted from blue feathers still hung from his life-bound sword.

His sword was pressed to my heart.

I looked at him and laughed until I cried.

Without my heart-protecting scales, my chest was easy to pierce.

I had already plucked away most of my most precious scales and given them to him.

2.

After a century of tribulation, I returned to godhood and forgot many things.

They said that after I died, the man who had once loved me carried on as if nothing had happened. He never shed a tear.

But the children of the gods have no hearts, so it seemed ordinary to me.

Later, I happened upon that man.

He wore white, just as he had in my memories.

He mistook me for an illusion and clutched my hand tightly, begging me not to go.

His voice was broken and hoarse.

His pupils were contracted, yet he could not shed a tear.

It turned out that he had traded the pure, distant sound of his chanting for this Mirror of Rebirth, and watched it every day.

It wasn't that he could not cry. His eyes were diseased, and he was unable to weep.

It turned out he had never moved on.

I lifted a finger, and the Mirror of Rebirth, which showed the past, shattered at once.

Suddenly, I remembered something he had once said to me. I lowered my eyes to look at him, a faint, compassionate gaze on my face.

I said, "The past is no more than a dream to me. Why must you take it seriously?"

Reader's guide:

1. Entirely first-person narration.

2. The female lead is no saint.

3. The ex has to suffer to win her back.

4. Slightly stream-of-consciousness, with plenty of flashbacks.

------Coming soon------

After the Immortal Lord Spurned Me, I Stole His Fiancée by Fei Yuan Wen Shan

Liu Rusi is the young lord of the demon realm.

One day, she suddenly realizes that she is nothing but a villainess in a book.

She has loved the male lead for years, but is destined to never win his love. In the end, she will die in a worm pit after framing the female lead.

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At this point, Liu Rusi has just heard that the male lead is engaged and, in a fit of rage, locked the female lead in a dark room.

The female lead of the book, the future female sovereign destined to rule the Twelve Golden Palaces of the immortal realm, is currently just a mortal girl too weak to hurt a fly.

She is innocent and naive, yet as beautiful as a flower, naturally delicate and shy.

With a pair of affectionate eyes, she always seems to gaze at people with deep tenderness.

Looking at the female lead before her and thinking of her own tragic fate, Liu Rusi imagines a hundred ways to torment her, then smiles.

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Liu Rusi assumes the female lead must hate her for enslaving and humiliating her.

She even suspects that the female lead is secretly plotting revenge.

So one day, she takes a piece of her own underwear, which she had lost and found in the female lead's room, and confronts her.

"Tell me, did you put some kind of curse on this?"

The female lead only lowers her eyes and says nothing.

This only convinces Liu Rusi further, and she presses her harder.

A moment later, she sees the usually dignified and composed beauty slowly blush as she stares at Liu Rusi's underwear.

...Wait, something's off with you...?

Theme: Face tomorrow with courage