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---This story has no getting back together after a breakup, and the second male lead takes the lead. Here's the blurb---
Princess Yong'an, Xiao Wuyou.
From her name and title, she seemed a beloved girl, joyful and carefree.
For the first thirteen years, that was true.
After that, the words "Yong'an" became a hope she could never attain, even if she spent her whole life trying.
Because in the year she turned fourteen, she offended someone.
The Imperial Tutor, Wengu Yi.
She told him, "Teacher, I, Seventh, like you."
She wanted him to marry the princess.
Wengu Yi refused.
The following year, the Turks invaded, and the nation was in crisis.
The lands of the Daye dynasty were battered by storms. Unable to fight back, the court sent a princess to marry for peace.
Wengu Yi submitted the memorial recommending the marriage, and sent her off.
Seven years later, on the battlefield between the two armies, the Turks held the princess hostage, hoping to force Daye to retreat. The Imperial Tutor, who commanded the three armies, drew his bow to a full moon and shot her through the heart.
The princess fell backward. A jade pendant slipped from her sleeve and shattered.
She thought, Wengu Yi really is a bastard, and I'm an idiot.
How could I have believed that the marriage was a temporary expedient, or that he had come to take me home?
*
When Xiao Wuyou opened her eyes again, she had become Lu Lan, daughter of the Duke Who Assists the State.
Looking at the state of things now, she could only conclude that her judgment before dying in her previous life had been right.
Wengu Yi really was a dog.
After driving out the Turks, he turned around and seized the Daye dynasty, giving the realm a new imperial surname: Wengu.
It was now the third year of Zhengde. The former Imperial Tutor had become the emperor of a new dynasty.
The emperor was selecting his consorts. Lu Lan was already engaged and wasn't among those chosen.
But a month ago, she had fallen into the water while out on a spring excursion at Qinyuan. The emperor had caught one glimpse of her and thought her a goddess.
Back in the imperial city of Daye, the palace had been filled with beautiful women, including Princess Yong'an, whose beauty outshone them all.
Yet he had never once looked at her for more than a moment.
What kind of beauty could make a man who always wore the mask of propriety and morality fall so deeply in love that he would risk public condemnation and forcibly take another man's wife?
Xiao Wuyou studied her face in the mirror.
...Well, would you look at that. The seventh young lady of the Lu family had exactly the same face as Princess Yong'an.
Note:
1. The second male lead takes the lead. The man in the blurb is only here to move the plot along and get put through the wringer.
2. This is an unconventional rebirth story. As the blurb says, the timeline continues after the female lead's death in her previous life.
3. No one is a virgin except the second male lead. Readers who care about this, proceed with caution.
4. Old-school melodrama, with equal parts sweetness and angst. The couple is the princess, Xiao Wuyou, and the top scholar, Pei Zhan. Happy ending.
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Pre-release: The Snow Is Coming Soon
Xie Qiongju has no regrets about divorcing He Ze and kicking him out of the Xie estate, though she does feel some sorrow.
She is a daughter of the Xie clan. Once she learned that He Ze was the orphaned son of the deposed crown prince, severing their relationship to ensure her family's safety was the wisest choice.
So when they met again later, faced with He Ze's taunts and provocations, Xie Qiongju looked at the man whose hand tendons she had severed and thought he wasn't being unreasonable at all.
Over the past four years, He Ze had learned a little about Xie Qiongju. He hadn't gone out of his way to send people to investigate; the Xie clan was a century-old family, and its daughter was simply too dazzling not to hear about.
He heard that barely two months after their divorce, she had become Prince Jin's consort, and that she bore him a child the following year.
He heard that when Princes Jin and Chu fought, Prince Jin lost and the Xie clan fell from power, leaving her to escape with her child.
He even heard that, to make a living, the Xie clan's daughter was offering her hands for sale in this northwestern frontier town, and that someone had paid a fortune to buy the rights to her extraordinary painting skills.
At the Mingle House, the bids rose from ten taels to a hundred, then finally sold for a thousand.
*
That night, pale fingers held a vermilion brush, rouge served as ink, and skin as paper.
But the hand holding the brush belonged to He Ze, and the person beneath it trembled.
He snapped, "Don't move."
Xie Qiongju's eyes grew red and hot as she clutched the quilt beneath her.
She didn't know what he was painting. She only knew that in the end, he spilled rouge all over her and threw her into the hot spring to bathe with him.
A dressing mirror stood in the bathing room. Amid the surging waves, she happened to look back and saw her shoulder and half her back reflected in the steamy mirror, with half a red plum blossom remaining on her skin.
Snow blanketed the ground, and the red plum had just begun to bloom.
That was how they had looked when they first met.
*
He Ze said that the thousand taels he'd paid weren't for her extraordinary painting skills, but for her.
So the rumors were true after all. She'd married someone else in the blink of an eye, had a child soon after, and was willing to have herself put up for sale at the pleasure house for the sake of that child.
Grinding his teeth, he said, "Xie Qiongju, I bought you."
Xie Qiongju nodded, making no objection.
There was so much she wanted to say when they met again.
But then she thought: in another month, the daughter of the northwestern military governor would return with medicine that could mend his tendons; in three months, they would marry; in six months, she would reach the end of the lifespan the doctor had given her.
When the heavy snow came, she wouldn't survive the winter.
Premise: Strength, lonely courage, and devotion
What can I say, even in the end I did not forgive Wen... During the period of time when he found the heroine and confirmed that the heroine was the princess who was killed by him, he still violated Zheng and had a relationship with her. If you really love someone, you should protect her like the heroine's third brother. The so-called finding a substitute or taking revenge are just excuses and unwarranted moaning. It's so sanctimonious, it's disgusting.
The author's writing style is quite good, but it would have been better if there wasn't a paragraph about Wen and Zheng. It doesn't mean that he can't sleep with other women. The key point is that from the beginning to the last word, at least from the author's presentation, Wen has always been deeply in love with the heroine, and has no feelings for Zheng Yidiu, so what's the point of having to add a paragraph about him sleeping with Zheng besides being disgusting and disgusting? . . This section is very fascinating about his character. . . Without this paragraph, even if there is a previous article about sending the princess to get married, it can be said that he was so obsessed with fame that he couldn't see his own heart. It feels quite sad. With this paragraph, I really feel uncomfortable thinking about him. . Fortunately, Zheng was written off in the end. I have never hated the second female lead so much. .
No wonder there is a saying that if good people don't live long, they will cause trouble for thousands of years. Wen Guyi turned out to be a real dog until the finale.
I think whoever is with the heroine is the hero.
I didn't expect that Wen Gu could survive until the finale.
It's so beautiful~ The feeling Wen gave me reminds me of Xie from Shuangque. Do you love the heroine or not? I can only say that from the reader's point of view, it makes people want to love her, but it's a pity.
Pei Zhan should be a gentleman, and love should be what he does: let her be free. Thank you to the author for this article, it is very interesting.
I finished reading another book on 25.1.15. The ending is very satisfying but I feel empty. I hope Nugoose and Xiao Pei will always be happy in another world 🥺
Woohoo, it's really beautiful!!!!
Why aren't many people reading this article if it's so good? I was so excited that I saw it was almost seven o'clock in the morning... The two male protagonists were portrayed super well!!! Pei Yanxi is really worth it!!! The character Wen Guyi is so tragic and I feel so sorry for him. He is not a bad person, but he made a decision that changed his and the princess's lives at the beginning. If he had insisted on not letting the princess get married, would the ending have been different?