The Heir Regrets It Too Late

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Both leads are reborn x a regretful pursuit of his wife

Wan Ning grew up in the countryside, innocent and carefree.

Wei Linhuai was born into a distinguished duke's family. He was an unparalleled beauty, renowned throughout the capital.

Wei Linhuai was badly wounded and lost his memory. Wan Ning saved his life.

Later, when Wan Ning's father was gravely ill and beyond treatment, he used the debt Wei Linhuai owed him to demand that Wei Linhuai marry Wan Ning.

Wei Linhuai agreed.

After Wan Ning's father died, Wei Linhuai recovered his memory and took her back to the Duke's residence.

The Duke's family was influential and distinguished, while Wan Ning remained innocent, still calling him “husband” at every turn.

Everyone privately said Wan Ning was deluding herself.

Wan Ning was stubborn and refused to believe them.

Until the day she learned she was pregnant, when Wei Linhuai brought her a bowl of abortion medicine.

The bitter medicine and the twisting pain in her belly, as if her flesh were being torn apart, left Wan Ning unable to speak.

She looked at Wei Linhuai and smiled, tears filling her eyes.

She thought, So those people were right. He was never truly her husband.

On the day Wan Ning lost the child, war broke out at the border, and Wei Linhuai left the capital to lead his troops.

At the time, he thought, What could one woman possibly matter?

But later, with his life hanging by a thread on the battlefield, all he could think of was Wan Ning's tearful eyes.

Wei Linhuai survived against all odds and returned victorious. By the time he came back to the capital, Wan Ning had disappeared.

He searched for her year after year, but never found a trace of her.

Many years later, she came to the capital seeking a doctor for her child.

That day, rain poured down in sheets. She held her child while the man beside her held an umbrella over them both.

Through the curtain of rain, he heard her call the man “husband,” exactly as she used to call him.

Notes:

[1] There is more to the male lead giving her the medicine, and she does not lose the child.

[2] The male lead is devoted to the female lead alone. There is more to his previous “marriage and children.”

[Blurb captured on November 30, 2022]

[Upcoming novel] Reborn as the Tragic Emperor and Empress

Xie Wanyi married Zhao Huaijin at fourteen. They were childhood sweethearts who vowed to grow old together. Later, Zhao Huaijin ascended the throne, and she was made empress as his first wife.

The edict appointing her empress was accompanied by an imperial decree bringing the legitimate daughter of the Xie family into the palace as a consort.

Though everyone knew the new emperor had been in love with the Xie family's legitimate daughter since his youth, they all praised Xie Wanyi's good fortune.

She was born an illegitimate daughter, yet now she could be empress, ruling the realm alongside the emperor. Even the celebrated legitimate daughter of the Xie family, once renowned throughout the capital, could only serve as a consort beneath her. What glory!

They said that the new emperor had insisted on making Xie Wanyi empress despite her low birth, placing the legitimate daughter of the Xie family beneath her. It was proof that their love as husband and wife was truly deep.

Xie Wanyi believed it too.

Until one day, in the imperial hall, she heard Zhao Huaijin say that he had never considered her his wife. He had given her the throne of empress only because she had been by his side for ten years, and he pitied her unhappy life.

That year, Xie Wanyi was twenty-four. She had been married to Zhao Huaijin for ten years.

For ten years, she had been his wife, exhausting herself day and night for his sake. During the war, she had suffered a difficult labor, nearly died, and been left unable to conceive again. Their only child had also gone missing.

In the end, all she received in return was his pity.

From that day on, the fourteen-year-old Xie Wanyi was buried forever within the palace walls. The empress who survived was as cold as a jade statue.

She watched one group of consorts after another enter the palace, and one child after another be born to Zhao Huaijin, while she played the most virtuous and benevolent empress.

Not even the most demanding historian or the harshest court critic could find fault with her.

Another ten years passed. Rebellion erupted at the border, Zhao Huaijin led the imperial army into battle, and Xie Wanyi fell gravely ill.

The deep palace walls had locked away every joy and sorrow of her life.

At the moment her strength finally gave out, Xie Wanyi felt only relief.

She thought, If there is another life, she would find a man who loved only her, with all his heart. She would never marry Zhao Huaijin again, and never be empress again...

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She died too soon to see him come a thousand miles through the snow, his winter clothes stained with blood, just to see her one last time.

Nor did she know that Zhao Huaijin would later give up the dazzling path of an emperor and beg for another life with her...

Upcoming novel: After Toying with the Hostage Prince, He Ascended the Throne

Yuan Shuhua, Princess of Yongning in the Northern Dynasty, had been spoiled since childhood and did whatever she pleased. To her, Xie Jinghe, a hostage prince from the fallen Southern Dynasty, was just another plaything to amuse herself with.

The young princess was noble-born and breathtakingly beautiful. In matters of love, she always got what she wanted.

Xie Jinghe's affection was merely another ordinary prize to her. Once she had it, she treated it with contempt.

One day, a young lady from her usual circle of friends took a fancy to him. Yuan Shuhua casually agreed to hand him over. Afraid he might refuse to serve someone else, she even planned to secretly drug him.

She thought Xie Jinghe was nothing but a lamb at the mercy of others. She never knew he was a wolf cub hiding his fangs.

Xie Jinghe switched the drug right under her nose. The potent drug Shuhua had prepared ended up in her own body.

The young princess he had yearned for day and night cried helplessly before him, and Xie Jinghe did the wanton things he had dreamed of countless times.

At the time, he only wanted to punish the heartless young lady, to make her taste the consequences of toying with someone's affections and then abandoning them.

But later, after Xie Jinghe had clawed his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, rising from a slave of a fallen dynasty to the new emperor of the Southern Dynasty, he exhausted himself plotting and scheming for one purpose alone: to keep that heartless young princess by his side.

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