Courting Qingqing (Both Reborn)

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Before being reborn, Cui Yunci swore she'd never again cross paths with the short-lived husband who had caused her tragic death.

Who knew that when she opened her eyes again, not only would she meet her short-lived ex-husband, Xu Yanxing, but she would soon be marrying him.

To prevent the tragedy of her past life from happening again, she flirted with the young lords of various noble families, doing her best to ruin her reputation in the hope that Xu Yanxing would call off the engagement.

But not only did he refuse to do as she wished, he ordered that she be formally brought into his household with all the rites and gifts of a proper marriage.

After they married, Xu Yanxing watched his wife meet other men in secret every day. She was calculating and full of lies, utterly unlike the sweet, innocent woman he remembered from his past life.

In the end, he shook his head helplessly, said, “You aren't her after all,” and agreed to divorce her.

One day after their divorce, Xu Yanxing happened to pass a tavern in town. There he saw his ex-wife, whom he had just divorced, drunk and sprawled in a man's arms. They were acting intimately, and she even mentioned his name.

“I told you Xu Yanxing was an idiot. He actually thought he could marry me. I only had to put on a few little acts to get rid of him!”

“Being married to him in my past life was bad enough. Now that I've finally been given another life, I'm not going to repeat the past!”

“...”

Xu Yanxing's face darkened as he listened. He clenched his fists and rushed in, scooped her up around the waist, and tossed her into a sedan chair.

Cui Yunci, utterly confused, stared at the man closing in on her and paled with fright. “W-what are you doing?”

The man didn't answer. He reached out, gripped her chin, and glared at her. “Aci, so after being reborn, you never once planned to spend your life with your husband?”

Cui Yunci: “...”

-Reader's Guide-

1. Both leads are reborn. One-on-one romance, both chaste, happy ending.

2. There was a misunderstanding surrounding the female lead's death in her past life. It wasn't caused by the male lead.

3. The leads aren't biological siblings. The male lead was adopted by the female lead's parents.

◎Coming next: After I Dragged the Aloof Buddhist Monk from His Altar

(I)

To outsiders, Princess Yongjia is peerless in status and beauty, adored by the emperor and empress, and loved by Chancellor Xie.

But only Chu Ningyu knows how low and wretched she is at night, and how Xie Rongyu torments her until she wishes she were dead.

She has been looking for a chance to break free of Xie Rongyu once and for all, ascend the throne as empress, and finally get her revenge.

Then the old emperor falls gravely ill, and a revered monk from Qinghe Temple arrives to chant prayers for his recovery. In the crowd, Chu Ningyu catches sight of a remarkable, aloof Buddhist monk who practices with his hair unshorn.

The monk is Xuanling, born Li Zhi. He commands a powerful army and is the only person in all of Great Chu capable of standing against Xie Rongyu.

Chu Ningyu narrows her phoenix eyes, planning how to drag him from his altar and make him willingly walk through fire and over blades for her.

On the night the old emperor dies, Xie Rongyu's men surround her and the young emperor in the Golden Throne Hall. Their lives hang by a thread.

In her despair, Li Zhi arrives in full armor with his troops to save her.

As she watches the men fall one by one before her, their blood staining her snow-white skirts, Chu Ningyu is overjoyed. But just as the man is about to leave, she grabs him.

Her slender hand hooks onto the armor around his arm, and her bright eyes fix on him. “I'm frightened, High Monk. Would you stay with me for the night?”

(II)

At first, Chu Ningyu thinks Li Zhi is every bit the enlightened monk he should be after years of cultivation: compassionate, devoted to saving all living beings, and like an immortal too lofty to reach.

Later, she accidentally catches a glimpse of his darker side.

In a dim room, the man holds a long sword and draws one bloody gash after another across the body of the eunuch before him.

“Tell me, between Chancellor Xie and me, who is a better match for Her Highness?”

“Y-you, of course!” the eunuch answers at once, trembling all over with fear.

But the man has no intention of letting him off so easily. In the blink of an eye, a streak of blood appears across the window lattice.

Chu Ningyu instinctively takes a step back.

The commotion alerts the man nearby. Sword in hand and blood covering his face, he walks toward her.

He has none of the aloof bearing of a Buddhist monk now. Instead, he is like a bloodthirsty, murderous sinner cast down from heaven.

He smiles and traps her in his arms, his bloodstained fingers lingering on her cheek. “Are you afraid, Your Highness?”

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