Jintang Spring (Reborn)

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In her previous life, everyone said Pei Xin was lucky. Her birth mother died young, her family fell into decline, yet she still married into the illustrious Lu family, a powerful clan of great wealth and splendor, and became the Third Young Madam. Few knew that her mother-in-law disliked her, she and her sisters-in-law were at odds, and her husband neglected her. She spent half her life being a virtuous wife, only for her husband to get promoted and sent away to govern elsewhere, surrounded by new lovers and concubines, while she spent ten years alone in an empty room.

When she woke, she realized she had returned to fifteen years earlier, before she was married. In this life, she absolutely would not repeat the same mistakes...

* A rebirth story with a new pairing. No chasing-his-wife-to-the-crematorium plot from the previous life. Knowing when to cut your losses is the way to go.

Upcoming novel: "Pluck a Green Branch" (completed)

The first time Gu Qingwu met Xie Qiuchi was at her family's restaurant. Her elder sister had coaxed her into coming, asking her to help bring a poor scholar back to their home.

The son of an old friend!

She looked at the young man before her. He wore coarse clothes, yet his graceful, handsome appearance was impossible to hide. He had a pair of peach blossom eyes that ought to have looked flirtatious, but when he looked at her with an innocent, awkward expression, he even borrowed the few taels of silver she had on her.

What was this supposed to mean?

She thought he was her elder sister's lover. It was only when he gave her the wind chime he had won at a poetry gathering that she realized she had misunderstood.

Jincheng is known for its beauties, and the Gu family has two especially outstanding ones, Yiyuan and Yiyu. Both are famous for their talent and beauty. Only the Gu family's Fifth Miss, Gu Qingwu, is little known, until a poetry gathering in the city sparks a rivalry between two men over one woman, becoming the talk of the town and drawing everyone's attention.

Everyone thinks she will choose the refined young man from a wealthy family.

The Gu family thinks so too.

But Gu Qingwu sees it differently.

Rather than spend her whole life trapped in other people's schemes and shadows, she would rather make her own choice and take a chance on another path.

Male lead's perspective:

Xie Qiuchi has never thought of himself as a good person. Born into a poor family, he passed the imperial examinations and entered government service, but had no one to rely on. To get promoted and stay alive, he willingly became another person's attack dog, stained his hands with blood, and was hunted down by his enemies. He died at thirty.

As he lay dying, he thought of Jincheng in his youth, of a figure in green beneath the Gu family's peach tree. From missing her at the start to losing her later, he had never been able to let go.

Who would have thought that when he opened his eyes, he would be reborn in the year he first arrived in Jincheng? In his hand was one of the pair of mandarin duck jade pendants that served as a token. He had not yet returned it to the Gu family, and it had not fallen into anyone else's hands.

He still had a chance.

* The male lead is reborn. Their previous life had a bad ending; this life has a happy ending.

* They save each other in both lifetimes.

Upcoming novel: "Radiant Beauty (Reborn)" (ongoing)

In her previous life, Xie Mingshu, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an's household, and Gu Jinyuan, the second young master of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, were widely known as a loving couple. They had been married for three years and were deeply devoted to each other, yet they hastily divorced overnight, leaving everyone shocked and confused.

Gu Jinyuan remarried, and Xie Mingshu married someone else. But no one expected the white lotus he remarried to have a black sesame filling beneath her pure exterior. In less than two years, the splendid Duke of Zhenguo's household was falsely accused of treason and executed in its entirety, bringing a century of glory to an end. Meanwhile, Xie Mingshu married the wrong man. Her gentlemanly husband turned into a wolf, treating his wife worse than a concubine. Even though she remained chaste, he discarded her like trash, and the Marquis of Yong'an's household gradually declined as a result, until its title was revoked, its officials stripped of their positions, and the family driven out of the capital.

Only when she was divorced despite having kept her virtue intact did she understand what a joke her three years of devoted waiting had been. And Gu Jinyuan... In the end, all that was left for her was a cup of poison, its true purpose revealed only when she sought revenge.

She died from the poison, but it seemed like a dream in which years passed in a flash. When Xie Mingshu awoke, she discovered that she had returned to five years earlier, before she and Gu Jinyuan had divorced. At that time, the wolves and the black lotus had only just returned to the capital. There was still a chance to change everything...

Theme: Life cannot be lived over. Treasure the present.