He Knelt After the Divorce

[Complete] [The Wife-Chasing Crematorium] Pre-release: Wrong Marriage

Jiang Li had loved someone since she was young. From then on, everyone else was just a passerby in her eyes.

For Xie Yunzhou, she put aside her cooking utensils and learned to prepare meals, taking care of the household and personally handling every chore. Her mother-in-law made things difficult for her, and her sisters-in-law looked down on her. She suffered one indignity after another without ever speaking up.

She told herself that as long as she treated him sincerely, even if Xie Yunzhou was a block of ice, one day she would melt his heart.

But no matter how well she treated him, she could never win his sincerity. He always greeted her with a cold face and found fault with her at every turn.

She kept telling herself to wait a little longer. One year passed, then another. In the third year of their marriage, he got drunk one night and, in the dim candlelight, called her Ruan Ruan.

Ruan Ruan was his elder sister's childhood nickname.

Only then did she realize that he had loved her elder sister all along. But her sister was already married, so he had settled for the younger one instead.

Jiang Li's heart died. The day she signed the divorce agreement, Xie Yunzhou asked her, "Are you really going to divorce me?"

Jiang Li gazed at him steadily. "Yes."

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Xie Yunzhou was born into a military family. He was both scholarly and skilled in martial arts, handsome, and pleasant to everyone. Jiang Li was the only one he treated with cold indifference.

He watched her grow thinner and thinner, watched the smile disappear from her face. When he passed her room and heard her sobbing, he only found it irritating.

After signing the divorce agreement, he watched her leave without a trace of emotion or the slightest attempt to stop her.

In his heart, if someone wasn't the right person, what use was anyone else?

He thought he would be happy after the divorce. Then one day, they happened to meet on the street. He saw Jiang Li smiling brightly and fussing over the man beside her, and only then did he realize what he had lost.

The wave of loss that swept over him left him unable to eat or sleep, as if he had fallen into an abyss.

That night, in a torrential downpour, he braved the rain and knocked on the Jiang family's gate. In the courtyard, he shivered as he begged her to take him back.

"I would drain every drop of blood in my body to atone for how coldly I treated you."

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Pre-release 1: Wrong Marriage

[The Wife-Chasing Crematorium]

Their parents arranged their marriage, and with a single marriage contract, Jiang Yi married herself off. She thought they would live in harmony, with brothers treating one another well, but only after marrying into the Prime Minister's household did she discover that her husband was cold, her elder sister-in-law made things difficult for her, and her younger sister-in-law was mean.

For four years of marriage, she kept the family rules in mind, treated everyone sincerely, and devoted herself to caring for the whole household. She rose at three in the morning and couldn't sleep until midnight. Even when ill, she had to manage every affair of the Prime Minister's household.

Years of toil had ruined her health. She had thought she might receive a moment of tenderness from Zhou Luoyun, but his heart was harder than stone, and he ignored her completely. Even when she was ill, he forced her to do things she did not want to do.

When she cried and begged him to stop, he pretended not to see, cold to the extreme.

Jiang Yi had thought he was simply a cold-hearted man, until he brought a woman back from beyond the frontier. Only then did she understand: he wasn't heartless, he was only heartless toward her.

Worse still, while her cold had not yet passed, he brought the woman before her and told her to call Jiang Yi "Elder Sister."

Zhou Luoyun wanted to take the woman as a concubine, and he wanted Jiang Yi to give up the main bedroom.

Four years of devotion had earned her not a trace of tenderness. Jiang Yi's heart died, and she threw the divorce agreement in front of Zhou Luoyun. "Sign it. From now on, your life and death have nothing to do with me."

Zhou Luoyun's eyes turned sinister as he said in a low voice, "Once you leave the Prime Minister's residence, don't even think about coming back for the rest of your life."

Jiang Yi replied, "Good. That's exactly what I want."

-

Zhou Luoyun, the Right Chancellor of Yun Cang, was a rare beauty, graceful as an orchid and as elegant as jade. They said he was gentle and refined, and cherished his wife. He was known throughout the capital as a devoted husband.

That was a lie.

On a rainy day, Zhou Luoyun coldly watched Jiang Yi walk out of the Prime Minister's residence, step by step. Not a ripple stirred in his eyes.

In Zhou Luoyun's eyes, a wife was only there to bear heirs. She wasn't worth the effort of paying attention to.

But one day at a palace banquet, he saw a woman dancing gracefully in the hall, and his heart gave an inexplicable twinge. From then on, he was lost.

Zhou Luoyun thought he would never fall for anyone in this life. It took his heartache worsening day after day for him to understand: he had fallen in love, and fallen beyond saving. He would risk his life if that's what it took to beg her to come back.

Pre-release 2: The Obsessive Prince Begs for Reconciliation

[The Wife-Chasing Crematorium]

The Obsessive Prince x The Sweet, Gentle Beauty

In their two years of marriage, Xue Shen's favorite thing was to personally shape Jiang Fu's eyebrows. Everyone said Prince Rui cherished his princess consort and loved her deeply. Surely there was no one in the world as devoted as Prince Rui, and the two were a match made in heaven.

At first, Jiang Fu thought so too. Then one day she accidentally entered Xue Shen's study and happened to see a portrait of a beauty hanging on the wall. The woman in the painting had the same eyebrows as her. Only then did Jiang Fu understand: so...

He had never loved her.

No wonder. No wonder he always covered her eyes with his hand whenever he was intimate with her. It had never been her he wanted.

Jiang Fu wept as she took the portrait to Xue Shen and asked, "Did you never love me?"

Xue Shen snatched the portrait from her in anger. The gentle expression in his eyes was gone. He seemed like a different person, cold-hearted and bloodthirsty.

"How dare you touch what belongs to this prince?"

Later, Jiang Fu was sick for half a year. Xue Shen not only failed to enter her room even once, but also brought back a woman from outside. That woman had the same eyebrows as the one in the portrait, and resembled her even more than Jiang Fu did.

Jiang Fu endured that woman's abuse day after day. Heartbroken and disillusioned, on the day she left the prince's residence, she asked Xue Shen one last time, "Do you want her or me?"

A cold smile played at the corner of Xue Shen's mouth, but his words pierced Jiang Fu's heart like a knife. "Her."

Jiang Fu left the prince's residence without hesitation.

-

At first, when Jiang Fu left the prince's residence, Xue Shen felt nothing. He simply thought that a bird that had flown from its nest would eventually return. He wasn't in a hurry. He would wait for her to come beg him.

He had even planned what he would do when she begged. He would clip her wings so she could never fly away again.

Without her wings, she could only be a bird in a cage.

But Xue Shen waited a long time and never got the reconciliation he expected. Instead, he heard that Jiang Fu was going to marry again.

Xue Shen panicked. He knocked on the Jiang family's gate in the middle of the night. In the bitter wind, wearing only his underclothes and a bundle of thorny branches on his head, he begged her to take him back.

You can hit or scold me, just come back.

Content warnings:

1. The wife-chasing crematorium, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. The male lead has no relationship with the woman he brought back.

Theme: Women should be strong and self-reliant.