Regretting Casting Away a Precious Pearl

Yu Jingshuang was rejected three times. Back then, she had felt deeply humiliated, but by now she had gradually come to terms with it.

But one day, she woke up to discover that stories of her past had been turned into three tragic romance novels circulating around the capital:

"Even Childhood Sweethearts Cannot Rival a Fated Love"

"After Being Exposed for Stealing a Nobleman's Life-Saving Deed, the Scheming Young Lady Is Coldly Rejected"

"When the White Moonlight Is Imprisoned, the Substitute Is Kicked to the Curb"

The childhood sweetheart, the young lady, the substitute: all of them were her.

Looking back, Yu Jingshuang could only lament that she had met the wrong men.

Her first fiance was a bodyguard she had taken in as a child. Silent and loyal, he had grown up by her side, but for power and status, he broke off their engagement and left without a word.

Her second fiance was a nobleman she had found injured in the woods. The gentle, indulgent favor of a man in power made her fall for him.

But one careless remark left them both stunned. Only then did she learn that all his affection had been for someone else. He had mistaken her for the woman who had truly saved his life. When the truth came out, he abandoned their engagement for the sake of his real savior's happiness and sent Yu Jingshuang thousands of miles away to marry into another family.

Her third fiance was her benefactor, older-brother figure, and close friend in a foreign land. He had promised to protect her through every storm, but when he learned that his white moonlight was in danger, he left without hesitation, leaving her to face the treacherous situation alone.

Three past relationships, three affections, all ending in misery.

With a bitter smile, Yu Jingshuang could only sigh that her romantic fate was short-lived. She might as well let go of everything and live freely, following her own heart.

But ten years later, when she had let go of her lingering resentment, put aside her girlish temper, and found peace and contentment in her life...

Those three men all sent her letters, each saying he regretted what he had done.

The three men who came to rekindle their relationships all found each other unbearable.

The nobleman said unhurriedly, "I was with her throughout her youth. The care and consideration you enjoyed from her were things I taught her."

Her close friend smiled faintly. "During the days when she was most vulnerable and in the greatest danger, without my protection, how would you ever have had the chance to meet her?"

The two men turned their gazes on the childhood friend, who had remained silent, eyeing him like predators.

Only then did he look up. He pressed his lips together and said softly:

"A mistake is a mistake. Why make excuses?"

If he could, he would become that ignorant little puppy he once was. Even without a name or a place by her side, simply seeing her happy would be the greatest joy in the world to him.

Yu Jingshuang: "..."

Could you at least let her have some peace and quiet?

"I Regret Throwing Away the Pearl"

See how the three unfaithful men cling to her in remorse and fight among themselves.

One-on-one romance, happy ending.

A sunny, carefree heroine with a pile of one-sided admirers x a taciturn puppy-like man.

[Content warning: Rekindling an old romance after a breakup! If this is not for you, please stop reading now.]

[The hero is described as a silent little puppy because later the childhood friend chooses to shatter his personality and erase his memories, deliberately turning himself back into a foolish little puppy. Please keep this in mind if you dislike this plot point.]

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Dark, obsessive, untouchable beauty x slow-witted, carefree, laid-back beauty

[The main story is told from the heroine's point of view!]

My Empress, Jiang Mu, is finally dead.

Since we were young, she clung to me relentlessly, refusing to let go, and tore me and my white moonlight apart.

After I ascended the throne, I issued an edict sending her to the cold palace. She argued and made a scene, and her grief soon made her gravely ill and brought about her death.

That wicked woman would not behave even on her deathbed. She sent a bowl of poison to kill my beloved consort and son, and left me bedridden as well. I struggled in pain for less than two years before dying alongside Jiang Mu.

I closed my eyes, then opened them again, and I had returned thirteen years into the past.

At the time, I was still a disgraced Crown Prince, miserable and unfulfilled in the cold palace. Jiang Mu was the youngest daughter of the Duke's family, recently found after spending more than ten years living in the wilderness. Her speech was crude.

She had not married me yet, had not worn herself out for my sake, had not died inside because I fell in love with someone else, and had not gone mad with jealousy and dragged me down with her.

None of it had happened yet. Perfect!

The moment I was reborn, I decided I would not let the tragedy of our deaths in my previous life happen again. I would smother every tie between me and that wicked woman in its cradle!

So I stuffed a rope into my clothes, sneaked into the Duke's estate in the middle of the night, and planned to strangle Jiang Mu in the woodshed then and there, so she could never cause trouble again.

But when I opened the door, moonlight spilled across the floor. Jiang Mu, who should have been shut inside and looking miserable just as she had in my previous life, was nowhere to be seen.

I was a little at a loss.

Jiang Mu, Jiang Mu, you and I are meant to be entangled, generation after generation, loving and hating each other until death do us part.

So why have you once again turned away and left first?

Jiang Mu had spent her whole life wearing herself out.

After she was found, she fought her biased parents in the Duke's family, the fake young lady who had taken her place, the aristocratic families around the capital, and her husband, who did not love her...

She fought for half her life, only for her husband, the father of her child, that damned emperor, to use her as a shield for his beloved consort. Her old illness never healed, and a year later she breathed her last.

She closed her eyes and opened them again, and she had returned to thirteen years earlier, when her adoptive parents were coaxing her into an engagement with the disgraced Crown Prince.

In her previous life, she had been deceived by his noble, handsome appearance. Even though she knew he found her crude and ill-mannered, she had still shamelessly thrown herself at him, using every means at her disposal to break down and defile that untouchable beauty.

She even had his child and stayed by his side as he ascended the throne, only to be cast aside by that bastard as casually as a flick of mud.

After living again, Jiang Mu decided to lie flat. She swore to be nothing but a lazy fish and never again get involved in any of the conflicts from her previous life.

She escaped the woodshed, rode north under cover of darkness to Qingzhou, and left every bit of that damned fate behind.

She left without a backward glance, forgetting that the night was supposed to be the day she and that damned emperor had fallen in love in her previous life.

So she would never know that he had sat waiting all night and searched desperately for her for three years, only to see her tenderly intimate with someone else and turn red-eyed, losing control in his pain.

One-on-one romance, happy ending. In both his previous life and this one, the hero is faithful in body and heart. He loves only the heroine and has had a child only with her. The blurb uses a single-character point of view and a stubborn refusal to admit his feelings; that is not how the actual story unfolds.

Theme: No matter what setbacks you encounter, never give up on loving life.