Blurb:
By middle age, Shen Huaizhi seemed to have the perfect life in the eyes of outsiders: a son and a daughter, a husband of high rank and power, a peaceful household, and people bowing and fawning wherever she went.
But she didn't like this so-called perfection.
In her husband Xue Cong's eyes, they had the respectful partnership and virtuous, devoted wife he wanted. But to Shen Huaizhi, after giving her young heart to the wrong man, she had returned to find that half her life had passed and she'd become the very sort of person she disliked most.
It had taken Shen Huaizhi half a lifetime to go from lovesick girl to perfect, virtuous wife. And when Xue Cong finally fell in love and gave his heart to someone, it wasn't her. It was the young Empress Dowager, widowed in the depths of the palace.
So behind all her outward splendor lay endless pity and mockery.
On her birthday, before Shen Huaizhi could even fling the divorce papers she'd prepared in Xue Cong's face, she suddenly returned to the age of sixteen, when she was madly in love with him and refused to marry anyone else.
Even if it was only a dream, Huaizhi thought, this time she wanted to find out what it felt like to turn back before it was too late.
In Xue Cong's eyes, Shen Huaizhi had always been willful and headstrong.
She liked him and wanted to marry him. Whether he wanted her or not, she would do whatever it took to get her way. And when she changed her mind, she cast him aside as if he were worthless, with the same forceful, capricious air.
Xue Cong had never been easygoing or easy to provoke. He could tolerate Shen Huaizhi's caprice and spoiled behavior, but he would never allow her to do whatever she pleased with his life.
Then, for the first time in his life, a girl made him taste defeat and jealousy. Even when he was willing to humble himself, compromise for her, and regret his choices, all he got in return was a heart of stone.
Shen Huaizhi truly, completely, had no intention of choosing him anymore.
Not any version of him...
Content warnings:
1. Both leads are virgins, one-on-one pairing, and both have issues.
2. The heroine has a first love.
3. The hero only loves the heroine, and he will be reborn later in the story.
4. Read rationally, and part on good terms.
Theme: Love yourself and make peace with yourself.
Guest Appearance as a Friend
Crossing the Spring Breeze
After Dreaming of My Future Husband
Heartless
After Changing the Person I Love
Special Favor
Her Deep Devotion
After Kissing the Wrong Person
The First Wife Is Stubborn to the End
A Secondhand Love Letter
The Fake Princess
Thinking of the Beauty
When will Xue Cong realize that the person who really made Zhenzhu fall in love with Huaiyi was himself. It was he who asked Zhenzhu to be a wife who was like a strategic ally from the beginning, and it was also he who did not respond to her feelings, so Zhenzhu's emotions for him were worn away. Zhenzhu is indifferent to the fact that he is looking for someone else. Isn't this exactly the way he wanted to get along as a couple in the first place? If he gets angry, he should blame his former self. He got angry again when someone did it. Everything was caused by himself, but he felt that it was the pearl that brought him shame. If you don't do that in the front, how can there be such things in the back?
Ah? Let me know whether I write it or not, or else I will get my money back, right? What is this?
Chen Li, I want more extra stories from Chen Li
The author's writing style is really good, but Chen Li is such a pity
I wrote well at the beginning, but as I went to the back I felt more and more exhausted.
The whole book feels like an expanded outline...
Please, please insist on finishing it.
The writing is very good and touching. Why won't the author write about this kind of subject in the future? It's very interesting.
It feels like the male protagonist is on the road to death and will never come back. The two of them have broken up like this, and it is impossible for him to be together later. I really want to see how it is written in the future. I feel that unless the male protagonist dies, the female protagonist will never be able to get rid of him.
I'm crazy, the male protagonist doesn't reflect at all