The Black Lotus Ex-Husband Became the Second Male Lead

[I'll start writing once I have enough pre-orders!]

The Third Prince is a gentleman: refined, courteous, and the dream of daughters from countless distinguished families, who all long to pluck this flower from the highest peak.

Xiao Zhuxuan falls for him at first sight, but when the Emperor arranges her marriage, she ends up wed to Lu Chengchu, a powerful court official.

Lu Chengchu is cruel and cold-blooded, and everyone is afraid to go near him.

As if things weren't bad enough, Xiao Zhuxuan's parents die one after another.

Only after her death does she discover that it was all the Third Prince's doing.

Reborn, Xiao Zhuxuan returns to the year before she ever met the Third Prince. In the woodshed, she also finds a destitute young beggar named Lu Chengchu.

Looking at the boy who will one day become a vicious, corrupt official, Xiao Zhuxuan decides to train him while he's still young into an obedient dog.

But a rabid dog is still a rabid dog. Xiao Zhuxuan fails to tame him, and he knocks her to the ground, holding her down.

"Lu Chengchu, have you gone mad? Why did you bite me?" She wipes the blood from her lip, abandons the severely wounded Lu Chengchu in a dark, gloomy cave, and makes a clean getaway.

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Several months later, Xiao Zhuxuan returns to the capital and, just as in her previous life, encounters the Third Prince, who asks for her hand in marriage again.

Beneath the bright moon, she lowers her head, unwilling to look at him. "I'm honored by your favor, Your Highness, but I already have someone in my heart."

The normally mild-mannered Third Prince turns menacing. He grips her wrist tightly and asks in a low voice, "Who is it?"

Lu Chengchu suddenly appears and slaps the Third Prince's hand away. A vicious glint lurks beneath his cheerful smile. "Wife, you promised to tame me. Why did you leave first?"

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In her previous life, after they married, Lu Chengchu went to find Xiao Zhuxuan every day and asked only one thing: "Do you remember saving me?"

Xiao Zhuxuan always shook her head in confusion.

"No matter. We have a long life ahead of us. Take your time remembering," Lu Chengchu would think before turning away.

Sadly, she died in the end.

Lu Chengchu had never known joy or sorrow, yet his heart ached to its very core.

[A naturally heartless, ruthless mad dog x a cool, steadfast beauty]

*Lu Chengchu gradually regains his memories of his previous life and gets his comeuppance. The Third Prince, Li Muheng, is left to regret everything.

*This is a fictional setting, a very fictional one. The plot exists to serve the romance. 0v0

1v1, HE, SC

Theme: Perseverance is important!