This Lady Is Keeping a Lover, So What?

(My next book is Enough Pretending, Your Highness, a dual-rebirth story. Please add it to your collection. Thanks!)

[Upcoming Story Blurb]

Reborn into a new life, Qin Hao goes from a country orphan to the cherished daughter of an official family. Her parents dote on her, and everything seems to go her way.

Only two things give her a headache.

First, her husband from her previous life puts his imperial exam studies on hold and travels thousands of miles to the capital. He isn't angry that she abandoned him and left without a word. His eyes are still full of devotion, and he takes care of her in every way, tempting her to waver again and again until she falls into the warmth of his affection.

Second, the ruthless Prince Ning seems to have taken a dislike to her for some reason. He torments her in every way, using threats and temptation to force her to obey. He loves seeing her plead with him, helpless and pitiful, yet also wants to raise her to the highest station and give her endless wealth and glory.

Qin Hao is caught between the two, tossed back and forth until she's emotionally exhausted.

Until she discovers that the steadfast but impoverished scholar is Si Yan, and the Prince Ning who abducts her by force yet harbors a special affection for her is also Si Yan.

Si Yan is the one who wants her to be willful and free, and also the one who confines her, clips her wings, and won't let her take a single step away.

He gives her the gentlest, most accepting love, while making no effort to hide his possessiveness and obsession.

So Qin Hao is left with just one problem:

How can she make Si Yan experience the same indecision and heart-wrenching torment, day after day?

Through a moment's carelessness, Si Yan loses the most important person in his life. After spending half his life on it, he finally finds a way for them to begin again.

He thinks that if he gets another life, he and Qin Hao can be happy together until they grow old.

Who would have thought that after spending one perfect night together, the woman would leave without a word, leaving him only an empty courtyard and a letter:

I'm going back to the capital to live as a young lady. Focus on your studies and find yourself a kind woman to marry.

Si Yan suppresses his surging anger time and again, but in the end, he can't bring himself to throw away the letter.

Qin Hao.

He thinks of countless ways to make Qin Hao beg him to forgive her, so she won't dare refuse him or leave him again, and can only stay at his side in tearful obedience.

But when he sees the joy on Qin Hao's face, all those dark thoughts turn to dust.

He likes this sort of girl, after all.

Qin Hao likes power, so he'll give her supreme power. She loves wealth, so he'll shower her with riches.

The moon in his heart may not shine very brightly, but it can only fall into his arms.

[Story Blurb]

As the only daughter of the Grand Princess, He Ling is born noble and dearly spoiled. As she approaches her coming-of-age ceremony, her family arranges a marriage that everyone envies.

Rumor has it that her betrothed is both talented and handsome, and the man of many noble ladies' dreams.

He Ling is delighted too, and rushes to the imperial city. But when she arrives, she discovers that her betrothed is nothing but a hypocrite!

He presents himself as noble and refined, but in reality, he's a womanizer.

He keeps a delicate cousin in his residence, and has another alluring mistress living elsewhere.

But since their engagement is hard to break, He Ling can't bear the thought of it. To get back at Pei Yuanzhang, she searches around and secretly keeps a mistress of her own in a private residence.

Who would have thought that this mistress is a fraud too!

He looks gentle and obedient, but has a terrible temper and a nasty personality.

He isn't gentle and attentive like a proper kept lover. Instead, he tries to control her at every turn, argues with her, and even keeps showing up in public, intent on taking the place of the official wife.

He Ling is terrified that someone will find out and desperately tries to cover it up. But he acts as if he wants everyone to know, deliberately sticking close to her.

Mistress: "Didn't you secretly keep a mistress behind the young master's back for exactly this reason, miss? Do you like it this way?"

He Ling, thoroughly cornered, is so anxious her heart pounds. "I do. I like it so much I'm about to lose half my life."

[Short Scene]

People at the Duke of Jingguo's residence gradually notice that Miss He has been visiting less often lately.

When she does come, she always looks guilty and speaks timidly, as if she's hiding some unspeakable secret and afraid someone will discover it.

Then a guard happens to see Miss He sneaking into a private residence, looking around nervously before hurriedly dragging a man out of her carriage and trying to shove him inside.

He barely has time to get angry when the man turns around and makes a shushing gesture.

Then their heir, who should be out making his rounds, strolls into the residence, holding the hand of his future wife.

Theme: Learning to accept yourself