A Wife for the Lord

[Substitute bride + rekindled love after a broken relationship + a long road to winning her back + fleeing while pregnant + the heroine has a secret identity when they reunite]

Shen Lianxiu's stepmother promised her as a second wife to a merchant. Her future as a merchant's wife seemed all too predictable.

But just days before the wedding, she was sent in place of her stepsister, Shen Wuyu, to marry into the Duke of Cheng's household.

Zhou Linjin, heir to the Duke of Cheng, fell in love with Shen Wuyu at first sight. Then Shen Wuyu suddenly vanished without a trace.

Just as the stepmother was reluctantly preparing to break off the engagement,

Zhou Linjin went blind. Unwilling to give up such a wealthy in-law, the stepmother came up with a plan to substitute one bride for another.

Zhou Linjin was a gentleman as fine as jade, and after their wedding he treasured her in every way. Shen Lianxiu basked in his affection,

but she alone knew that everything Zhou Linjin gave her was actually meant for Shen Wuyu. He was kind only to Shen Wuyu, and she had nothing.

But the good times didn't last. The day Shen Wuyu returned, she exposed Shen Lianxiu as an impostor on the spot,

accusing her of plotting to make her stepsister disappear and then taking Shen Wuyu's place under a false name.

Zhou Linjin said, “It was Shen Wuyu who was entered into the family register at the ancestral temple. You have no legitimate claim to stay, and the Duke of Cheng's household cannot keep a woman who harmed her own sister. In consideration of how diligently you served us, take some money and leave.”

The next day, Shen Lianxiu left alone without taking a single coin from the duke's household.

After Shen Lianxiu left, everything returned to normal. Before long, Zhou Linjin regained his sight.

When he could finally see his wife again, she had the very face that had once haunted his dreams. But for some reason, Zhou Linjin's heart suddenly ached unbearably.

Only then did he understand that the woman before his eyes and the one in his heart were no longer the same person.

Five years after Zhou Linjin learned that Shen Lianxiu had died, he was sent out of town to investigate a case.

There, he met a woman.

She couldn't speak, her husband had died, and she practiced medicine in the countryside. She also had a three- or four-year-old child.

He had never met her before, yet she gave him a peculiar sense of familiarity.

Zhou Linjin didn't know where that feeling came from. He only knew he didn't want his heart, cold for five years, to grow warm again.

No one in this world could ever make him feel the way Shen Lianxiu had.

He could never wrong Shen Lianxiu again.

So Zhou Linjin planned to finish investigating the case and leave as soon as possible.

Until one day, he came across a prescription.

He was shocked to realize the handwriting was exactly the same as Shen Lianxiu's.

*Both leads are each other's first and only love. Updates usually come at 9 p.m.

My next historical romance will be The Seven Strings Ring Clear, also known as The High-and-Mighty Husband's Original Wife Is Reborn.

Xu Tang was born with exquisite beauty and noble status, and grew up cherished by everyone. After she married Gu Yucheng, he rose steadily through the ranks, making everyone envious of her.

She enjoyed the wealth and glory Gu Yucheng brought her while taking care of the entire Gu household, playing the role of an ordinary but capable matriarch.

Though Gu Yucheng was always rather cool and distant, they could still have lived together in harmony until old age. But, inexplicably, a minor bout of cold ended up taking Xu Tang's life.

Only after Xu Tang died did she discover that she was a supporting female character in a story, while Gu Yucheng was the male lead.

For years after she passed away, Gu Yucheng never remarried. He didn't even take a concubine or a maid as a bedmate. He simply raised and patiently educated their children alone for years.

Just when everyone thought Gu Yucheng would remain a chaste widower for the rest of his life,

he fell in love again.

He welcomed a beautiful young wife into the household. After an entangled, heartbreaking game of one person retreating as the other advanced, the usually aloof Gu Yucheng, as lofty as a flower on a high peak, finally couldn't hold out any longer.

Then Xu Tang's children were sent far away, and his new young wife dug up some unfounded incident from more than a decade ago to prove Xu Tang's wrongdoing. She succeeded in having Xu Tang's memorial tablet removed from the Gu family shrine and her grave relocated elsewhere.

The young wife and Gu Yucheng stayed in love until they were old.

Furious at the story's plot, Xu Tang was reborn into the past.

Back then, she was the beloved, pampered youngest daughter of the Xu family, soft and adorable, while Gu Yucheng was a poor young man staying with her family. He was alone, bullied, and mocked.

In the past, Xu Tang had been the only one who spoke to him and protected him in secret, making sure no one bullied him. But now, she wouldn't even give him a kind look.

Whoever wanted to pluck that flower on the high peak could do so. She wasn't going to try again.

Gu Yucheng's meals became leftovers and cold scraps, and he silently endured the many ink stains that appeared on his books while he studied.

Then he noticed that the pastries once left on his desk had been given to someone else. Xu Tang, who had always chattered away by his side, no longer spared him a glance.

For the first time, Gu Yucheng panicked.

After tossing and turning all night, he quietly stopped Xu Tang as she was heading out to play with someone else. His voice trembled as he asked, “Third Sister, why... don't you talk to me anymore?”

*The blurb does not reflect the full plot or characterization.

Theme: See through the fog and find your true self