Spring Returns to Zhangtai

[Second Chance Romance] [My Husband Can Hear My Thoughts] is now out! A clever county princess who only wants to be a widow × a refined minister who survives by eavesdropping on her thoughts. Find it in my author page~

When Shen Mingyan stood before the palace gates for the third time, she finally understood.

The emperor she had loved for two lifetimes, for six years, had wanted to use her from the very beginning. He had never felt the slightest affection or pity for her.

So, unlike the last two times, she did not walk into the palace without hesitation.

She turned around. As the first clap of thunder split the sky, she resolved to stay far away from the palace from now on.

What she did not know was that in this life, Emperor Qi Heng had finally remembered all the help and sacrifices she had made for him in her previous two lives.

*

Qi Heng waited inside Guangning Hall, wondering how he should greet the woman who had once loved him so deeply.

Then a palace servant reported that Third Miss Shen had arrived at the palace gates, only to turn and leave shortly afterward.

Qi Heng was stunned. Then he frantically ordered a carriage prepared and gave chase.

But when he reached the palace gates, he saw Third Miss Shen climbing into a spacious carriage in the pouring rain.

Beside it stood the pillar of the court, Chief Grand Secretary Pei Qing, holding a pale blue oil-paper umbrella over her. Tall and graceful, he stood firm without a hint of hesitation.

Reader's Guide:

1. Happy ending. The heroine is reborn twice, giving her three lives in total.

2. Pei Qing is the male lead. There will be no male lead change; he is set in stone.

3. A wish-fulfillment story, and it may get melodramatic. More than one male character falls for the heroine, but she only loves one person.

4. The heroine married Qi Heng in her first two lives. They were genuinely emperor and empress, truly husband and wife. She did not marry him after being reborn the second time.

[Blurb dated 2022.9.29]

[My Husband Can Hear My Thoughts] is now out. If you like it, please add it to your collection~

Jiang Miaohan, County Princess of Leyi, was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her greatest dream was to live a carefree life of luxurious idleness.

Unfortunately, once she came of age, her family began urging her to marry. After careful consideration, she chose a sickly man, intending to marry him and enjoy the life of a carefree widow. But something went wrong, and the imperial edict named the newly graduated scholar Su Dingqin instead.

Luckily, ever since she nearly drowned as a child, she had often dreamed strange dreams that came true. On the day she accepted the edict, she dreamed that Su Dingqin had little time left to live.

So, on their wedding night, Jiang Miao followed the dream's instructions and took out the wooden dragon plaque that had been hanging around her neck ever since she was rescued after nearly drowning as a child.

"Husband, I prayed for this blessing plaque for you at a Daoist temple. You must keep it with you from now on. It will keep you safe."

Su Dingqin accepted it, and before he could feel touched, he heard another voice.

[You have to keep it with you. At tomorrow's banquet, one cup of poisoned wine and you'll die so comfortably!]

Su Dingqin: ???

*

After their marriage by imperial decree, Su Dingqin realized that something was off about his wife, and perhaps something was off about him, too.

He could hear two voices, and both belonged to his wife, Jiang Miao.

"Husband, let's eat at a restaurant today. It's been so long, I've really missed it."

[It's today! The assassination is definitely coming!]

"Husband, I want to go see the flowers on South Mountain. I hear they're beautiful!"

[Even if you fall off the cliff and are smashed to pieces, I'll have to put up with it for my own happiness.]

Looking at his wife's gentle, kind smile and hearing the murderous thoughts in her head, Su Dingqin desperately wanted to know which faction was trying to kill him.

So he relied on those voices to avoid death time and again, until peace and prosperity reigned throughout Great Ning. When someone asked the successful and famous Lord Su how he planned to deal with his troublemaking wife, Jiang Miao, he replied:

"My wife is a paragon of virtue. I love her."

Another upcoming story, [The Marquis's Wife Quits, and the Whole Household Falls Apart], is on my author page~

On their wedding day, her husband left to lead troops on a northern campaign. Song Yunwan put the needs of the country first and devoted herself to being the Marquis's wife in the Xiao household for four years.

Born into a distinguished family and raised as a model young lady, she managed the entire marquis's household with perfect order.

But after Xiao Yan won great military honors and returned to the capital to report, the reunion she had waited for never came. Instead, he brought back a frail foreign woman.

Song Yunwan had treated her with courtesy and worked hard to make plans for everyone in the household.

Only as she lay dying did she learn that Xiao Yan had long resented her for occupying the position of the Marquis's wife, the Xiao family had long resented the strict rules she imposed, and the foreign woman had taken all her efforts to protect her as acts of sabotage.

She had worked tirelessly for half her life to support the vast estate, yet in the eyes of the entire Xiao clan, she was the culprit who had kept the marquis's household from attaching itself to the founding emperor's cause.

*

Reborn on the day Xiao Yan returned to the capital, Song Yunwan finally understood.

The Xiao family didn't need her. Why should she need them?

The woman he brought back could take whatever status she wanted. If he wanted Song Yunwan to give up her position, she would simply divorce him.

The Xiao family's daughters could marry whomever they wanted. Their character and family background were for their mothers to consider.

The servants could do their jobs however they pleased. She was considerate enough not to say a word.

The once-strict lady of the marquis's household suddenly claimed to be ill, shut herself away, and stopped managing anything. It was as if she had vanished completely from the household's inner quarters.

Only then did Xiao Yan realize that the whole estate had descended into chaos.

Gold and silver were stolen, and servants deceived their superiors. Even his married sister came to him to settle disputes. Unable to deal with domestic affairs, he wanted to ask Song Yunwan to take charge again.

But she only looked at him and quietly tossed him a divorce agreement.

*

Xie Huai, Junior Preceptor to the Crown Prince, was a man of noble character, widely praised by his contemporaries as a gentleman.

Only he knew how base it was to love a married woman.

He had thought his feelings would remain a shameful secret he could never confess to her. He never expected her to get divorced...

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