After Being Forced to Marry into the Nobility

On the day Shen Youyi was reborn, she turned down Li Changping's marriage proposal.

In her previous life, she had married him.

For five years after the wedding, Li Changping refused to share her bed, claiming he suffered from a hidden ailment.

They had no children in all that time. She endured her mother-in-law's curses and even beatings, all to keep Li Changping's condition a secret and protect his reputation.

Then disaster struck the Shen family, and the Li family showed their true colors.

Li Changping even brought his beloved first love into the Li residence. Only then did Shen Youyi learn that he had never been ill at all. He had deceived her simply so he could enjoy himself with the woman he loved.

Shen Youyi took it in stride. She personally cooked dishes and simmered soup, then joined the Li family in celebrating the arrival of the woman and her daughter.

Night fell over the Li residence, and white lanterns hung high throughout the courtyard.

Dressed in red, Shen Youyi walked calmly through the Li family courtyard, stepping over the bodies of the Li family members who had collapsed and died of poisoning. Her expression was composed. Without looking back, she walked out of the residence.

By the banks of the Ma River, she buried her father and stepmother, who had been falsely accused and beheaded, then threw herself into the surging waters...

On the second day after being reborn, Shen Youyi accepted the Cui family's marriage contract and took her elder cousin Shen Youjing's place as Cui Peicheng's bride.

In her previous life, Cui Peicheng was still fighting enemy forces at the border, where he had been wounded.

Her elder cousin had held a chicken's paw during the wedding ceremony, with the chicken standing in for Cui Peicheng.

This time, Shen Youyi wanted to hold a dog's paw during the ceremony, so she could shamelessly call him a dog of a man from then on.

But she never expected things to take a sudden turn from the start: on their wedding day, Cui Peicheng actually came back.

Theme: Marriage is no game. Take things as they come, and keep striving to do better.