Marrying the Chief Minister (Reborn)

Yu Xuelian used to be the pampered young lady who lived the most carefree life in Jinling. But just as she was about to marry, her father was sentenced to death, and the Yu family, which had enjoyed decades of glory, fell into ruin overnight.

Before she died, she tasted every kind of suffering the world had to offer. Her enemies oppressed her, and her betrothed humiliated her. Only when she closed her eyes did she finally feel at ease.

If only there were no next life.

Yet Heaven still showed her mercy.

Yu Xuelian was reborn into the bloom of her youth. Her mother was still alive, and her father was still the mighty General Who Guards the Nation.

The Yu family could still be saved.

Having learned too many lessons in her previous life, Yu Xuelian abandoned every young man she had attracted and shut herself away to study military treatises. She was going to catch the culprit who had framed her family.

The enemy was hidden; she was out in the open.

Yu Xuelian decided to find Lu Jun, the Grand Secretary who had handled her father's rebellion case. She searched all over Jinling, only to discover that the powerful minister who held sway over the court was... studying hard in a little mountain village.

As she pored over The Art of War, Yu Xuelian suddenly came up with a plan.

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Hua Wu Village had been unusually lively lately. Lu Jun, the unlucky scholar of the Lu family, was going to become a wealthy son-in-law.

Lu Jun himself found the whole thing baffling and utterly absurd.

That mysterious, well-to-do young woman brought him books and food every day, and always said confusing things before she left:

"Lu Jun, study hard. I know you'll place first in the imperial exams!"

"Lu Jun, it's freezing today. Don't go wash dishes at the inn. Teach me poetry and painting, and I'll pay you. How about it?"

"Lu Jun, Lu Jun..."

Yu Xuelian thought she had been helping Lu Jun tirelessly. But she never imagined that after he passed the imperial exams and rose to prominence, just as he had in her previous life...

His betrothal gifts would fill the main hall of the Yu residence.

This was how Lu Jun proposed: "Miss Yu, I have no way to repay your faith in me. I can only offer myself to you."

In his barren nights, where no light could reach, Yu Xuelian had let him taste sweetness.

Lu Jun had always warned himself that a poor scholar must not hope for too much or grow too greedy.

But as he looked at his lovely bride beneath the wedding candles, he scoffed at himself. "What's wrong with being a little greedy?"

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Coming soon in my author page: After Trading Husbands with My Twin Sister

The Lan clan of Luoyang was a distinguished family. Its men rose steadily through the ranks at court, while its women had produced titled ladies and a First-Rank Imperial Noble Consort.

Lan Yunjin and her twin sister came of age and married. One married Pei Ye, the young heir of a duke's estate; the other married Wei Xiao, a general known on the battlefield as the Grim Reaper.

Both were arranged marriages, and neither bride had ever met her groom. Lan Yunjin married into the duke's household, followed her family's teachings, and became Pei Ye's virtuous wife and a refined, well-mannered duchess.

But before her sister Yunying could marry into the general's household, disaster struck, and she died a violent death.

The Grim Reaper, too, perished on the battlefield, leaving no body behind.

Lan Yunjin spent her whole life trapped in the duke's household. She outlived her mother-in-law and husband. Before he died, her husband told her that the person he had always loved was her sister, Yunying.

After a life that felt like a cruel joke came to an end, Lan Yunjin returned to the night before her wedding as a young woman.

After a lifetime of being a good wife and mother, she did something outrageous this time: she urged her sister to take her place in the bridal sedan.

And Lan Yunjin took her sister's sedan instead. No disaster befell her, and she safely married Wei Xiao.

On their wedding night, her mother-in-law carefully warned her that Wei Xiao had a hidden ailment and asked her to be patient with him.

Lan Yunjin had been a mother herself, so she understood what her mother-in-law meant.

That night, Lan Yunjin gently reassured him, "Husband, don't worry. Your condition will get better little by little."

As a result, she didn't go to serve tea until noon the next day.

Lan Yunjin was mortified. Wei Xiao had no hidden ailment at all. He was perfectly healthy.

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Wei Xiao really did have a hidden ailment. His wife said she would help him get better, but before two days had passed, she ran away from the task and kept making excuses to put him off.

A good remedy was hard to find. How could Wei Xiao let Lan Yunjin go so easily?

His broad frame was enough to block every place Lan Yunjin wanted to go.

"Does my wife want to watch me grow gravely ill and die young, then find herself another match?"

Lan Yunjin hurriedly covered Wei Xiao's mouth. "It's broad daylight. Don't talk nonsense!"

Wei Xiao asked, "Will you save me or not?"

Lan Yunjin closed her eyes in resignation. "I will. I'll save you!"

Theme: Anything is possible in life.