My Short-Lived Husband Keeps Failing His Trial of Love

1, Lan Jing is a simple, honest woman who marries the son of a respectable cultivation sect. After their wedding, her husband tells her, "I am the Demon Lord who rules the Ghost City. I was reborn as a mortal to undergo a love trial. Help me get through it, and when I ascend, all the farmland and money in the household will be yours." Lan Jing goes about her days cautiously. Luckily, her husband treats her well, cherishing and respecting her, and they live a happy life together. Unfortunately, her husband is short-lived. Not even half a year after their wedding, he overexerts himself and dies on top of her. As he dies, her husband takes her hand. "Wife, I died this time because I failed my love trial. Wait for me. I'll come back for you." With that, he breathes his last. Lan Jing mourns him in tears. Less than half a month into her mourning, a third-place laureate who has just passed the imperial examination arrives to ask for her hand in marriage. The laureate pulls her aside. "Wife, it's me. I was reborn in this laureate's body. Help me through another love trial." Lan Jing loves her husband deeply. Despite the strange looks everyone gives her, she lets the laureate marry into her family, changing her mourning clothes for wedding robes. A widow and her live-in husband make quite a spectacle. 2, Life with the laureate is harmonious enough. Unfortunately, he is short-lived too. After she exchanges a few too many words with someone else, the laureate sees them and is consumed by jealousy. Before long, he dies of sorrow. As he dies, the laureate takes her hand. "Wife, I failed my love trial again. Wait for me. I'll come back for you!" With that, he breathes his last. Lan Jing puts on mourning clothes through her tears and arranges the laureate's funeral. She has only just finished the funeral banquet when a burly military general comes to take her hand. "Wife, I'm back again. Help me through another love trial." Unfortunately, the general fails his love trial too and soon meets his end. Lan Jing has only just finished the general's funeral banquet when a handsome young nobleman comes to ask for her hand. "Wife, I'm back again..." Lan Jing can only sigh. "When will this ever end?" Her husband replies, "Wife, I'm never going to pass this love trial. I'm done being the Demon Lord, too. From now on, I'll live as a mortal and build a good life with you." Lan Jing finally lets out a breath of relief. But not long after, the dead laureate and the general come back to life and show up at her door. The laureate: "Wife, I've come to take you home." The general: "My lady, come home with your husband." Lan Jing is dumbfounded. She turns to look at the husband hiding behind her. "Look what you've done!" Theme: Live a grounded, down-to-earth life