After Being Reborn Four Times, I Married the Capital's Number One Playboy

General Xiao Tang has already died three times on her wedding day

After a great victory on the frontier, the emperor grants her a marriage and she has to choose a husband.

The first time, she chose the commander-in-chief, a strong, broad-shouldered man with whom she had plenty to talk about. But on the way to the wedding, the gunpowder in her sedan chair blew her to pieces.

The second time, she chose the emperor's most beloved younger brother, Prince Xiang, who admired her greatly. But on the way to his fiefdom for the wedding, a volley of arrows turned her into a pincushion.

The third time, she chose a reserved, aloof Scholar of the Secretariat who was well-read in the classics. But before her sedan chair even reached home, she died from lipstick laced with poison.

Reborn for the fourth time, she picked up the album of handsome men's portraits she knew by heart and, with deep regret and no better option, selected the name Lu Xingzhi, the late Marquis Lu's son and a notorious playboy in the capital.

And this time, by some miracle, she survived her wedding night.

Still in shock, Xiao Tang gave Lu Xingzhi's breathtakingly handsome face an exasperated look. "...That works, I guess."

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Lu Xingzhi had spent half his life as a good-for-nothing playboy. He never imagined the emperor would grant him a marriage.

But of all the women he could have been married to, why did it have to be Xiao Tang, the woman of legend who killed without blinking, was fierce and brawny, and could polish off five bowls of rice in one sitting?

Lu Xingzhi cried, protested, and threatened to hang himself, but in the end, the eunuchs sent from the palace tied him up and took him to the bridal chamber.

Looking at his bride, whose beauty could make fish sink and geese fall, with her glossy hair and slender waist, Lu Xingzhi thought: "...That works, I guess."

[Lu Xingzhi at first: There's no way I'm getting married, and if I do, it definitely won't be to Xiao Tang!

Lu Xingzhi later: There's no way I'm getting a divorce. I'll never divorce Xiao Tang, not in this lifetime!]

[Lu Xingzhi: Wife! Wife! Tell me again how you fell in love with me at first sight, with 99 other men there as your background!

Xiao Tang: Um... I picked a name with eeny, meeny, miny, moe?]

*[Highlight] The heroine isn't perfect, and neither is the hero. This should be an everyday-life story, with a whole lot of goofy antics.

*Married first, in love later. The story starts with their wedding, and the hero will come around for real later. Both the hero and heroine will grow as people.

*The young couple go from disliking each other to being all lovey-dovey, from Pride and Prejudice to "My wife is the best."

*Work has been tiring lately, so I'm writing about the young couple's daily life together to unwind. There's a little bit of a career plot, too.

*Blurb posted on 2022.10.30

Theme: Women should pursue their careers. Even when you have a partner, don't give up on your ambitions! (fist pump)