We’re Already Divorced

The blurb for A Second Spring Breeze is at the very end. Please add it to your favorites! The newly crowned top scholar, Shen Zheng, is handsome, brilliant, perceptive, and composed. He is a prime target for the wealthy families looking to find husbands for their daughters. Unfortunately, he has two flaws: First, he comes from a humble background. Second, he and Jiang Yue, the recently acknowledged Junzhu of Zhaoming, don’t get along. When Jiang Yue sets her sights on a rare, out-of-print calligraphy painting, Shen Zheng buys it first: “Top Scholar Shen, have you ever heard that a gentleman doesn’t take what someone else loves?” “Luckily, I’m not that sort of gentleman.” When Shen Zheng transfers Jiang Yue’s handsome bodyguard with a letter of recommendation: “He’s my most capable bodyguard.” “He’s sharp-minded and has a commander’s bearing. It would be a waste to keep him as a bodyguard.” Then, during the autumn hunt, an errant arrow flies toward Jiang Yue. Before anyone can react, Shen Zheng rushes forward and shields her with his body. The arrow pierces the top of his black gauze hat. Had it struck an inch lower, it could have cost him his life. Shen Zheng’s arm remains around her shoulders, but his tone has returned to normal. “Don’t get the wrong idea. You know I hate the sight of blood.” Jiang Yue is silent for a moment. “I remember.” The onlookers stare, stunned. Huh? Something doesn’t seem right. The emperor smiles faintly and lays it bare: “My dear subject, what exactly is your relationship with the Junzhu of Zhaoming?” Shen Zheng pulls the arrow from his hat and casually tosses it aside. “Three years ago, the Junzhu and I were once betrothed.” * Shen Zheng: #Those who leave me can never come back Shen Zheng, again: #Now that I’ve risen to success, why hasn’t she come begging to remarry me? A few things to know before reading: 1. Happy ending, one-on-one romance, a bittersweet second-chance love. The heroine has her reasons for seeking a divorce. 2. The hero’s name is pronounced Zheng. The logic and plot serve the romance. This is a fictional setting, so please don’t scrutinize the history. 3. Reason for entering the Growth and Comeback contest: After facing hardship, the heroine grows from a sheltered rich young lady who never lifts a finger into someone who knows how to care for herself and manage the everyday necessities of life. She then reopens her antique and calligraphy shop, reviving her adoptive parents’ family business. Blurb for A Second Spring Breeze: A beautiful, gentle woman who has seen through worldly attachments and divorced to focus on her career x a general who has secretly loved her for years and is finally getting his chance The day Xu Xing was rewarded for his military achievements and made Marquis of Changping, Yu Yan finally received the divorce agreement signed by her former husband and escaped the mire. With half a trunk of dowry and a child, she moved to Jinshui Alley and returned to her old trade, opening a breakfast shop. A customer, eager for gossip, asks, “Shopkeeper, I heard the Marquis of Changping used to admire you, but you turned around and married a scholar instead. Do you regret it now?” “Where did you hear that? The Marquis of Changping was just my old neighbor.” Amid the mist rising from the steamer, Yu Yan’s face is as lovely as it was before she married. “I regret not bringing him breakfast more often, so he could’ve made it big sooner and looked after my business.” She turns around. A man in a black robe, with long, powerful arms and a lean waist, is silently waiting in line, a huge curved saber at his side. His imposing presence is so intimidating that the customers give way to him. Yu Yan looks at her old neighbor. “What would you like, sir?” “Two baskets of buns. No, three.” Later, someone asks Yu Yan’s former husband something similar. “Your ex-wife turned her breakfast shop into the most expensive restaurant in the eastern market, and the Marquis of Changping is constantly courting her. Do you regret divorcing her?” Her former husband grits his teeth: You think I signed that divorce agreement because I wanted to? Whose knife do you think was at my throat? Theme: Broken relationships can be mended