Blurb
The commoner Yun Gouxue died on her twenty-sixth birthday, dressed in the bright red wedding gown she'd longed to wear but had never been able to put on in her life.
After her death, the six-year-old First Prince knelt outside the Qian Kun Hall for an entire day and night, begging only for a coffin to lay his mother's body to rest.
The young man who had once exchanged wedding vows with her, now a king and master of the realm, issued only a single oral decree.
"A father's wife is one's mother. How can a man who divorced her call her Mother?"
After her body lay exposed for three days, Yun Gouxue was reborn in the spring of the year she turned sixteen.
That year, she had just been brought into the palace by her aunt, the Empress. Her heart was full of her childhood friend and cousin, Crown Prince Wei Lin, and she followed him around like a little tail all day long.
Now that Yun Gouxue had another chance, she knew that everything had been nothing more than a hopeless fantasy.
Wei Lin had given his heart to someone else. That girl was neither as noble in birth nor as beautiful as Yun Gouxue. She couldn't read and wasn't clever.
But Wei Lin loved her.
Yun Gouxue stopped forcing herself to wear the clothes Wei Lin liked, even though they didn't suit her. She stopped going to such lengths to show up by his side again and again.
She avoided him at every turn.
The beauty Wei Lin had loved in her previous life appeared again, but by a twist of fate, Yun Gouxue spent a night with Wei Lin.
Knowing she had already made Wei Lin hate her, Yun Gouxue requested permission to leave the capital. She went three thousand li away.
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Wei Lin thought Yun Gouxue would come back complaining bitterly within three days. After all, she'd been spoiled since childhood and couldn't bear the slightest hardship.
If Yun Gouxue admitted her mistake and promised not to act so capriciously again, Wei Lin thought he might be willing to marry her.
But Wei Lin never got an apology from Yun Gouxue. Instead, he received a scarlet wedding invitation.
The girl who had followed him since childhood, constantly saying she would marry him, was going to marry someone else.
Wei Lin, who had always kept his composure in any crisis, spat blood onto the invitation. "Yun Gouxue, don't even think about it!"
1. The male lead was a real jerk in his previous life, but there was a misunderstanding.
2. Reborn and done with him from the start.
Theme: Be independent, self-respecting, and love yourself
