Reborn: I Cast Off My Husband and Married His Younger Brother

Next book: "The Scholar I Flirted With by Mistake." Blurb at the very bottom ^^

Blurb:

Cool, beautiful heroine VS proud-at-first, doting-later wolfish young man (not-quite-siblings)

1.

Song Jiayuan, the daughter of a county magistrate, married up into the family of Yu Yunxiu, heir to Yangzhou's leading embroidery business, after falling into the water. As a result, Yu Yunxiu hated her for the rest of her life, and she died without even having a child.

Everyone in Yangzhou said she had schemed at every turn, only to lose by one move in the end.

Song Jiayuan, who had died with resentment, was reborn. Knowing she was no match for the deep and calculating members of the Yu family, she kept her distance from Yu Yunxiu to avoid the fate she had met in her previous life and seek a quiet, peaceful existence.

She devoted herself to making amends to the family she had wronged in her previous life. Now reborn, she knew her younger brother's true identity: he would become the Crown Prince. So she cared for him with all her heart.

But who could have guessed that the first time her younger brother spoke, the gaze he fixed on her face would suddenly grow feverishly intense, and five red hearts would pop up above his head…

Later, the Crown Prince, ignored for many days, came to her in a rage, only to find the young woman before him perfectly calm.

"Your status may have changed, but I was once your older sister. What you're doing is overstepping your bounds."

Song Yu gave a furious laugh and pulled the beauty into his arms.

In a husky voice, he said, "Today, I mean to overstep. Who's going to stop me?"

2.

After being reborn, Yu Yunxiu devoted himself to currying favor with the powerful and changing the course of his previous life, until he rose to the highest ranks of the court.

Yet he kept thinking of the wife he had detested so much in his previous life:

When he got dressed, he thought of her hands, roughened by calluses. When he read by lamplight, he thought of the sesame rice balls she often made. Even in his dreams, he couldn't escape her image.

In her previous life, Song Jiayuan schemed to secure her marriage and deliberately fell into the water at a banquet crowded with the young masters of Yangzhou. Yu Yunxiu was unfortunate enough to take the bait, and the two were entangled for the rest of their lives.

In this life, he should have been glad to be rid of her. But on the day of the banquet, he found himself inexplicably walking to the lake. Just as he hesitated, his gaze drifted across the water, where he caught sight of a concealed hand behind his wife.

Yu Yunxiu was struck as if by a thunderbolt, frozen in place and unable to recover for a long time.

Later, when Yu Yunxiu saw the pair standing high above everyone else,

he finally understood that he had lost, defeated by the gentlemanly restraint he had maintained all his life.

[Bonus Scene]

The carriage rattled through the capital as the voices of passersby came from outside.

"I hear the Crown Prince looks terrifying. They say he can split a person in two with a single palm!"

Inside the carriage,

Song Jiayuan reclined against a blanket.

The large hand said to be as sharp as a blade gently massaged her delicate feet.

The man softly coaxed her not to run around. All five hearts still floated above his head.

Song Jiayuan sighed softly.

She should never have provoked this iron-faced younger brother.

Reader's Guide

1. The male and female leads are not related by blood. The male lead was adopted.

2. After being reborn, the heroine has a natural talent for matchmaking. She can see the affection score above a speaker's head.

3. The heroine and the second male lead are both reborn. The second male lead truly suffers the consequences of his actions, and later, unable to have the one he loves, resorts to coercive possession.

4. The male lead has little presence early on and doesn't know his own identity, in more ways than one.

5. In this life, neither lead has been with anyone else.

Preview: "The Scholar I Flirted With by Mistake"

After her family falls into ruin, Lu Yaoke plummets into the abyss. She ruthlessly abandons the poor scholar who once vowed to live and die with her, and marries into the Marquis of Anqing's household as a concubine.

For years, Lu Yaoke stays by the sick marquis's side, confined to the manor day after day.

Outsiders all say that although she is still young, her heart died long ago.

Lu Yaoke quite agrees.

Even on the day the marquis passes away, she sits quietly through the night, feeling not the slightest joy at being free again.

Then, during the mourning rites, the poor scholar she abandoned suddenly appears.

Qi Xun stands at a distance, chatting easily among the crowd. Tall and distinguished, he no longer bears any trace of the hardship he endured in the past.

People congratulate him on his promotion and praise his gentle manners.

But Lu Yaoke clearly sees the deep hatred concealed in Qi Xun's eyes when he looks at her.

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Years have passed since they last met, and Lu Yaoke has long since moved on. When they happen to meet at the funeral, she assumes it's merely a coincidence.

But before long, Qi Xun appears at the marquis's estate again.

In the enclosed room,

Qi Xun's eyes are dark as his jade-like knuckles trace Lu Yaoke's cheek. His voice is as cold as a blade: "You owe me. You won't get away with a single thing you owe."

Theme: Love is sincere.