My Cousin Is So Cunning

The story is complete.

Coming soon: She Took a Lover After the Divorce. See the end for the synopsis.

Ruo Wei's family falls into ruin, and after her parents die, she has no choice but to seek refuge with her maternal aunt.

Her aunt is a marquis's concubine and has little influence.

Seeing that Ruo Wei is a beauty, her aunt offers her some advice, counting off the young masters in the household:

“Win one of them over, and you'll never have to worry about the rest of your life.”

After careful consideration, Ruo Wei decides that the easygoing, handsome Third Young Master is her best bet.

Unfortunately, Ruo Wei has poor eyesight and mistakes the heir for the Third Young Master.

She hears that the Third Young Master likes painting, so she practices diligently every day.

She hears that he likes poetry and song, so she runs up to him and recites poems.

Later, she makes plum wine with her own hands and brings it to the heir.

The heir coldly rebukes her. “Leave.”

Everyone mocks her: “A lowly pheasant dreaming of flying up to a high branch?!”

Trembling, Ruo Wei begins trying to win over the Third Young Master instead.

One day, she arranges to meet him.

But when she turns around, she sees the heir standing beneath a tree, his voice cool and distant:

“Wei'er, how dare you try to seduce my younger brother?”

Ruo Wei trembles again. She won't do it, she won't do it, she won't ever do it again.

Later, Ruo Wei runs off with a young scholar.

The heir: ...

The heir grabs his sword, mounts his horse, and races after her.

[Note: Neither lead has had any previous romantic partners.]

[The story involves rebirth. In her previous life, the heroine and the heir met a tragic end.]

[The events described in the synopsis occur relatively late in the story.]

She Took a Lover After the Divorce

Note: The male lead is chaste, but the female lead is not. The lover becomes the official partner.

Su Yingying is the daughter of a merchant, but she is beautiful and alluring, a renowned beauty in Rong County.

Through a twist of fate, she marries up into the family of Shen Hao, the son of a Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. She thinks Heaven has been kind to her, but three years later, she is cruelly cast aside for failing to bear a child.

Too ashamed to return to her hometown, Yingying goes to stay at a country estate.

She enjoys life in the countryside and meets Li Yidao, a soldier who has retired from the army.

Li Yidao is sturdy and strong. He helps her drive away wild animals, dig a well, and pick wild fruit.

Yingying watches him without looking away.

One day, Yingying hears that her former husband, Shen Gao, is about to marry a new wife. She grits her teeth, seething with resentment: You can marry someone new, so why can't I?

So that day, she invites Li Yidao for a drink and says sweetly, “Be with me, and I'll give you ten taels of silver a month. How does that sound?”

Li Yidao: ...

Theme: What you can't forget will eventually answer you; hard work and ambition will be rewarded