Joyful Rain on a Spring Night

Shen Qingyi had a difficult life in her previous one.

Born into a noble family, she was the eldest daughter and had lost her mother. Her father didn't love her, and neither did her stepmother.

At fifteen, she married Prince Ke, the most low-key among the emperor's sons. She thought she would live a peaceful, happy life, but Prince Ke had someone else in his heart and treated her with coldness and weariness.

When Prince Ke ascended the throne, she was made empress according to custom, yet had to make way for his favorite concubine.

Even when she became pregnant, she was forced to lose the child, and eventually died of illness in the palace.

She couldn't say she hated him, but she did have regrets.

She remembered that year beyond the frontier: the sky was vast, desolate, and dark; frost lay on the ground like snow. She stood on the dead grass, coaxing the spirited horse she had just received from her maternal grandfather. It was bitterly cold beyond the frontier. As she breathed out clouds of vapor and looked up, stars swirled across the sky, as if they were about to fall into her eyes.

She had not seen days like those since she was thirteen.

Perhaps she would never see them again in this life.

Ten years ago, her maternal grandfather died in battle.

Five years ago, her uncle and cousin held Changshui to the death. The deputy general defending the city colluded with the enemy and opened the gates to let them in.

The barbarian invaders slaughtered all one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in the city.

She had no family left.

She closed her eyes.

She did not see the emperor, eyes bloodshot, galloping unsteadily from outside the city and collapsing to his knees before the palace hall, a heart-rending sob rising from his throat.

When Shen Qingyi opened her eyes, she was reborn, back before she had married Prince Ke.

Pei Yu was the biggest playboy in all of Chang'an, good for nothing but his handsome face. As it happened, his mother was the emperor's full-blooded younger sister and was deeply favored by the current emperor.

The Princess Royal worried herself sick over his marriage.

The reason was that the brat had laid down two conditions:

One, his wife had to be better-looking than him.

Two, she had to be able to fight better than him.

Pei Yu was completely unapologetic.

"Otherwise, why would I get married? Isn't it better to look at myself in the mirror every day?"

He drove his entire family to exasperation.

Until one day, in a grove of pear trees at a temple, he met a young woman.

She stood on a blue stone, a slender wrist exposed as she rose onto her toes to pluck a pear blossom, delicate as a jade branch strewn with broken gems.

Her pale blue skirt fluttered in the wind. She was like a flower reflected in water, graceful, delicate, and otherworldly.

At that moment, Pei Yu heard his own face being slapped over and over.

He tactfully hinted to his mother that perhaps they could drop the second condition.

Later, he realized:

It turned out they didn't have to drop it after all. _(:з"∠)_

I often lament that the flowering crabapples have nowhere to go, so I leave them for the spring breeze to carry home with the snow.

A handsome-face-loving playboy x a cool beauty

The male lead has changed. The second male lead gets a crematorium-style redemption arc, and recovers his memories later than the female lead.

Theme: Someone who truly loves you will never let you get hurt.