Reborn as My Love Rival, I Divorced Him

[Upcoming novel "Seizing Spring's Beauty" is seeking follows. Blurb below]

Yao Niang is the envy of everyone, a village girl who married into a marquis's household as the young heir's wife.

Her husband, Gu Lin, is a paragon of his generation, famed from a young age and devoted to keeping himself virtuous.

Everyone says she is unworthy of being the young heir's wife, but no one knows that she nearly ruined her eyesight and crippled her legs trying to save him.

To repay her kindness, Gu Lin married her, and their life together was fairly loving and happy.

Who could have guessed that once they arrived in the capital, she would see the dazzling Princess Mingxi fling herself into his arms and pour out her tender affections?

Only then did she learn that Gu Lin and Princess Mingxi had been childhood sweethearts. Even though he had married her, Princess Mingxi still refused to give up her desire to marry him.

Gu Lin told her, "Yao Niang, Mingxi may be spoiled and willful, but she isn't a bad person. You don't need to be afraid of her."

But the Princess Mingxi he saw as harmless pushed Yao Niang into the icy river, causing her to lose their unborn child.

When she awoke, Gu Lin was still wholeheartedly defending Princess Mingxi. "You slipped and fell into the pond. Mingxi had nothing to do with it."

From that moment on, Yao Niang's heart turned to ash. She asked for a divorce, but in the end, she perished in a sea of flames.

They say that on the day she died, the scrupulous Gu Lin went mad, digging through the burned-out courtyard for three days and nights.

When he learned she had returned, he tried to clutch her to his chest like a rabid dog. With bloodshot eyes, he pleaded, "Yao Niang, this time, will you let me wait for you?"

Everyone knows that the current Grand Secretary, Yong Xin, holds power over the court, is ruthless and unscrupulous, and keeps his distance from women.

But no one knows that every night he dreams of a woman beneath him, her voice soft with pleasure. He has never been able to make out her face.

Until he saw the former wife of Young Lord Gu. From then on, the woman in his dreams had a face.

He has longed for her through two lifetimes. This time, even if it destroys his reputation, he will never let her go.

[Content warnings]

1. The young heir is the second male lead. He pursues his wife after losing her, but even chasing her ashes won't get her back.

2. The heroine changes her secret identity quickly, and reveals it just as quickly.

3. The hero has loved the heroine for two lifetimes.

[Upcoming novel blurb: "Seizing Spring's Beauty" is seeking follows]

The Xie Marquis household is the most prominent clan in the capital. The second legitimate son, Xie Huai, is as elegant and radiant as an immortal.

Having grown up in a Buddhist temple, he keeps his distance from women and is cold-hearted and aloof.

Who would have expected that after he was gravely wounded, a young woman from the mountains would save him? Her peerless beauty and intoxicating allure stirred his passion, unleashing the poison of desire within him.

That night, he broke into her bedroom, and the wind chime by her bed rang without pause until dawn.

Afterward, he kissed the cinnabar mole at the corner of her eye and promised, "A-Zheng, when I return, I will marry you."

Once Xie Huai had finished dealing with his affairs, he hurried back to the mountain estate, only to find it deserted.

He picked up the jade ring he had given her, a ruthless obsession rising in his eyes.

"A-Zheng, you just never learn."

"You think you can run away from me?"

*

Xie Huai searched for months. When he finally found her, it was while his nephew's new bride was serving tea to the family.

The young woman looked at him in shock, her frail voice trembling. "Uncle, please have some tea."

Seeing the springtime allure between her brows, he forced down his anger and accepted the tea.

After she left, he crushed the teacup in his hand.

*

Su Zheng, abandoned by her birth father and stepmother at a remote estate, unexpectedly saved a gravely wounded man.

It began as a simple act of kindness, but she never expected him to drag her into an endless abyss.

Red-eyed, she lay across the soft couch and begged him, "Please let me go..."

"A-Zheng, be good." Ignoring her tearful pleas, the man drew her into desire once more.

After he left, Su Zheng was terrified he would return. She hurriedly packed her things and fled in a panic.

But her birth father and stepmother caught up with her and forced her to take her stepsister's place as the bride of the lame young heir of a marquis's household.

On the night they reunited, he broke into her bridal chamber again and pinned her roughly to the bed, his scorching lips falling against her neck.

Su Zheng's face flushed, and she cried out in panic, "Uncle... you mustn't."

His long fingers brushed her lower lip. His dark eyes were full of possessiveness. "A-Zheng..."

[Content warnings]

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced and emotionally faithful.

2. The heroine and the young heir have a sham marriage. The young heir is only pretending to be disabled, and loves someone else!

3. The heroine is beautiful, the most beautiful woman in the book. The hero is ruthless and overwhelmingly possessive of her!

Theme: Be kind to yourself and become independent and strong to find happiness.