I Was Reborn After My Ex and I Got a Bad Ending

🎈"A Foolish Beauty Reborn on Her Wedding Night" is ongoing: marriage first, love later, a foolish beauty and her cold, stern husband. Blurb below.🎈

Wen Qiong is incredibly lucky. The Emperor decrees her marriage to the dazzlingly elegant, peerlessly handsome heir, Yao Xuan, and she becomes the Marquess's heir's wife in one fell swoop.

Her mother-in-law looks down on her and crushes her spirit. Her sisters-in-law mistreat and ostracize her. None of the hardships she endures in the marquess's household matter, as long as Yao Xuanci treats her well.

Until their fourth year of marriage, when the new emperor ascends the throne in the depths of winter. The Wen family is seized and exiled, and a length of white silk is placed before her.

It turns out the Crown Princess's younger sister and her husband grew up together. Their families had once intended to join them in marriage. The imperial decree that had made her so happy was merely a move by the Emperor to weaken and check the Crown Prince's faction.

Wen Qiong clutches the length of white silk and laughs. In the end, the tenderness and affection were false, the sympathy he showed her while urging her to bear him an heir was false, and the words that made her heart flutter were false, too.

He had suffered four years of hardship with her. Now that the new emperor was on the throne, he meant to collect what he was owed.

On the eve of New Year's Eve, Wen Qiong dismisses everyone, leaves behind a letter ten thousand characters long, and quietly dies the night before New Year's Eve with her unborn child.

But when she wakes, she's back in her second year in the marquess's household.

A young man in white sits by her bed with his eyes lowered, wiping the dirt from her wrists as she lies unconscious.

"Reader's Guide"

1/ The story takes a little while to get going.

2/ Both leads are inexperienced and have only ever been with each other. The setting is very loosely based on reality.

3/ If you can't get into it, don't force yourself to suffer. Just move on.

[🎈"A Foolish Beauty Reborn on Her Wedding Night": Empty-headed girl * grumpy man, marriage first, love later / winning his wife back while married 🎈]

The Wen family has been distinguished for generations, and Wen Minghe has been doted on by her elders ever since she was little. People say she was spoiled into being arrogant, domineering, extravagant, and overbearing, but she simply wants what she wants, when she wants it.

For example, the eldest son of the He family, He Lingqiu.

Even though he was already the consort the princess had set her heart on, Wen Minghe found him exceptionally handsome and declared she would marry no one but him. Her softhearted elders indulged her, pressuring the He family to send betrothal gifts and make the proposal. She got her way.

But on the day of the wedding, just as her bridal sedan reached the He residence, the entire Wen family was thrown into prison on charges of forming a faction for personal gain.

Before she and He Lingqiu could drink their nuptial wine, the He family couldn't wait to throw her out as a daughter-in-law of only half a day. They coldly watched as soldiers hauled her off to a dark, freezing prison.

Wen Minghe, a pampered young lady, couldn't withstand the cruel torture used to force confessions in prison. Before long, she died in her cell.

After dying with a heart full of resentment, she vaguely sees a bridal chamber hung with red silk and realizes she has returned to her wedding night with He Lingqiu.

She doesn't want to die. She wants to live.

Fortunately, she knows all too well how much He Lingqiu loathes and ignores her. She makes preparations to take him by force, and before the bad news arrives, she successfully tricks him into drinking the drugged nuptial wine.

After their night together, Wen Minghe still doesn't dare let her guard down.

Her family is in prison, and she is alone and helpless. The He family has reluctantly accepted her as a daughter-in-law for now, but they will never tolerate her.

She refuses to bend her pride and grovel to the He family. Her only option is to get pregnant as soon as possible, so that she can make He Lingqiu, that bastard, willingly stand by her side.

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When He Lingqiu hears that the once-glorious Wen family has suddenly fallen, he is lying amid the disheveled, suggestive red bedding, with the young woman curled up obediently against him, her soft, smooth body in his arms.

Since they have already consummated the marriage, he has no choice but to swallow his anger and disgust and keep her in the residence, warning her to behave herself.

But the young woman doesn't give up her usual arrogance and domineering ways. She makes trouble everywhere and repeatedly makes shameless advances toward him, using every clingy trick in the book.

He Lingqiu is sick of her clumsy, laughable tricks. At last, unable to stand it any longer, he warns her coldly, "Didn't the distinguished Wen family teach you anything about manners, propriety, and restraint?"

The words work astonishingly fast. That very night, Wen Minghe reins herself in and becomes perfectly quiet and well-behaved. She even avoids him for several days, acting docile and calm, but He Lingqiu can't help feeling that something is off.

Only when he sees her sneaking out of the residence to meet someone does he learn that she has been secretly cheating on him and looking for a new patron.

When he gets his hands on the divorce agreement she hurriedly drafted and secretly hid, the young man's expression turns dark. The thin sheet of xuan paper crumples in his hand.

Theme: Love and marriage require mutual respect, trust, and effort from both partners.