The Reborn Wife of a Poor Scholar

Please add my upcoming novels to your reading list: "Step Aside, the Supporting Actress Is Taking the Throne" and "After My Cunning Cousin Ran Away from Her Wedding."

A pampered noblewoman * a rough country bumpkin

One-on-one romance, single-couple ending, a slow-burn sweet slice-of-life in an old-fashioned style. Now complete. Thank you, everyone, for your support!

Sui Yuan's father had once been saved by someone, and the two men had made a verbal betrothal for their children. As a result, she married into a poor family. Her sisters not only mocked her for marrying beneath her station, but also made fun of her husband for being a brute.

She had heard that the man was burly and uncouth, fierce and strong. Her father had even seen him carry a wild boar on his shoulders. He was truly strong enough to move mountains.

At the news, Sui Yuan promptly fainted.

The husband of her dreams was a refined young gentleman, a learned and courteous scholar with whom she could live in perfect harmony. But she couldn't disobey her father's wishes, and in the end she married the man. Their very first night together went badly.

A pampered noblewoman and a rough country bumpkin, separated by countless obstacles, could never seem to find peace together.

After fifteen years of marriage, Sui Yuan had gone from the wife of a poor man to the Marchioness of Ning'an alongside Gu Zhiheng. Every day, she felt miserable. The couple had nothing to say to each other, and if things went on like this, she would go mad.

She wanted a divorce.

Just then, her husband brought home a delicate, sweet-voiced woman. Sui Yuan paid her no mind, determined to divorce him.

The man was silent for a long time, then nodded. "All right."

Sui Yuan: ?

As she seethed and agonized over what to do, she was reborn on the night of her wedding.

P.S.:

1. The woman mentioned in the blurb has already appeared in the story. She is unrelated to the main couple, and the male lead has his reasons for not explaining.

2. The main potential triggers are all mentioned in the blurb. This is a story about a couple who reunite after a breakup.

3. Neither lead is perfect. They both have strengths and flaws. Please don't project real-life situations onto the comments. This is fiction.

4. Please read the content warnings before starting. This really is a story about a couple who reunite after a breakup.

5. No personal attacks. They will be met with the same energy.

6. The male lead's name was chosen by the female lead's father.

7. The repayment-of-a-debt trope is clearly laid out in the blurb. If it bothers you, please don't read. Comments that project onto the story or derail the discussion will be deleted.

Upcoming novel 1: "Step Aside, the Supporting Actress Is Taking the Throne"

A slow-burn farming and daily-life story, surviving in a chaotic age, with a woman becoming emperor. Updated daily, so feel free to start reading!

Please add my upcoming novels "The Top Scholar's Little Dimwit Maid" and "After My Cunning Cousin Ran Away from Her Wedding" to your reading list!

Su Ziyu transmigrated into an old-fashioned melodramatic novel titled "My Lord, Don't Be Wild! The Divine Doctor Princess Is Pregnant" as the divine doctor's half-sister.

As the villainous supporting character, she was born into a poor family. Her grandparents didn't dote on her, her father didn't love her, and there was no way for her to run away. Still a little girl, she could only suffer under her mother's slaps and try to win over her divine-doctor sister, hoping to secure a future for herself.

In this barbaric era, she needed abundant resources and had to grow stronger than her family just to wrest control of her fate. She had thought her life would amount to nothing, but luck brought her a teacher.

Su Ziyu didn't want fate to push her around. She wanted to become strong.

Her teacher asked her, "What makes someone strong?"

Su Ziyu looked lost. "A strong person must have something worthy of admiration. I can't think of anything to be proud of. I only feel that being a woman is a miserable thing. Even when I grow up, I'll be forced to marry in haste and have children, then live out a meaningless life. How could I ever become strong?"

Later, war engulfed the land. Armies rose up, and the people suffered terribly. Su Ziyu had never imagined that she would rise up amid the chaos.

Behind her stood the family who wholeheartedly supported her, friends who shared her ideals, countless people battered by war, and the pitiful women oppressed by the powerful, by fate, and by the feudal age.

Someone asked her again, "What makes someone strong?"

Su Ziyu smiled faintly. "My strength now is my resolve: I will not die, and I will not yield."

As a woman, she forcefully carved a brilliant path through this age.

"I have the ability to govern, and that is enough to qualify me to rule. If you disagree, then come and fight me."

Upcoming novel 2: "After My Cunning Cousin Ran Away from Her Wedding"

A sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside heroine * a high-and-mighty gentleman

When Tan Zhiyi learned that the cousin who had come to his residence to await her wedding had run away, his heart, frozen like ice, grew restless.

He hadn't expected her to really run. He knew better than anyone that she'd done it for him.

On those hot, unspeakable nights, she was fragrant with lotus and kept asking him in a low voice:

"Do you really love me?"

"Will you help me break off my engagement?"

"Will you marry me?"

He occasionally gave her a halfhearted answer, all the while turning her smooth, slender waist in his hands, then left at dawn.

Tan Zhiyi couldn't help but laugh at the thought. Perhaps she'd forgotten how she'd seduced him. She was about to marry someone else, so why was she asking these questions? Besides, he was the eldest legitimate son of the Tan family, the most dazzling and proper gentleman in Yujing. How could he give up everything for her?

Before her wedding, he resolved to sever their doomed affair. But the warmth of her lips stirred something new in him, and suddenly he didn't want her to marry someone else.

He told her, half in jest and half in earnest, "If you run away from this wedding, I might marry you."

When she really did run, his heart surged. Besides thinking her foolish, he even felt relieved that he could escape their doomed affair and return to the proper path.

Everything went smoothly, and he returned to his usual self-discipline and propriety. But then, one day, the cousin who was truly meant to be married arrived.

Who, then, was the woman he'd been with?

Just like that, Tan Zhiyi slowly went mad...

Theme: Live earnestly. It's never too late.