Waiting for the King to Die So I Can Rule from Behind the Curtain (Reborn)

On top of the city wall, the rebels push Chu Shiying and Liji to the front and arrogantly demand that Qin Qiyu choose whose life to spare.

Qin Qiyu impatiently raises his bow and takes aim.

Chu Shiying leaps off the wall.

After landing safely in a snowbank, Chu Shiying curses under her breath: What is there to choose? There's a mountain of snow below the wall. Who could die from that fall? If I hadn't jumped, Qin Qiyu's arrow would have run Liji through!

Choose one of two? Qin Qiyu never makes choices.

A moment later, Qin Qiyu drags her out of the snow, his face livid.

Everyone says Chu Shiying is lucky. Though spoiled and willful, she has a vast fortune and a mountain of books to bring as her dowry. She marries Zheng Jijiang, the Prince of Zheng.

Chu Shiying scoffs at this. She's rich. She could marry anyone. Without her money, would Zheng Jijiang have become the ruler of Zheng?

They are simply using each other. He gives her security and the position of wife, while she gives him money to help him succeed.

But the one thing he should never have done was get involved with her younger sister. "Liji, of the three thousand beauties in the world, you alone have my heart. The only reason we can't be together is that Shiying stands in our way."

Chu Shiying is shocked. Chu Shiying is speechless. Chu Shiying sneers: Go ahead and marry her! Who's stopping you!? You already got what you wanted, and now you're acting like a victim. Bah!

Then the city falls, and Chu Shiying is reborn.

When Zheng Jijiang comes to ask for her hand, she looks at her sister's red-rimmed eyes and says, "Don't! I'll help you two be together. Let's break off the engagement."

She rolls her eyes and turns to Qin Qiyu, the attendant behind her grandfather. "Why don't you marry me? I'll give you my entire dowry, help you return to your homeland, conquer the four kingdoms, and unite the world."

Then, once you die young from your illness, I'll become the Empress Dowager and rule from behind the curtain. Hahaha!

But she waits and waits, and Qin Qiyu only gets healthier and healthier?

Qin Qiyu has also been reborn, learned his lesson, and is diligently nursing himself back to health. Hmph.

Little scene:

Chu Shiying: I'm rich, powerful, and beautiful. Is there anything I can't do?

Qin Qiyu ponders: Hmm... You can't marry another man.

A sickly young lord with eight hundred schemes, Qin Qiyu VS Chu Shiying, who is determined to become a widowed Empress Dowager and rule from behind the curtain.

Blurb for I Want a Divorce After Being Reborn? Pay Up:

Su Linlang prides herself on being disciplined and proper, and on being filial to her parents-in-law. To support her husband Gu Weixiao through the imperial examinations, she works herself to the bone making porcelain, wearing herself down from a fresh-faced beauty into a weathered woman.

Who could have known that once her husband passes the exams, he would rush to divorce her! Fine. He's Chen Shimei, so she'll be the loyal wife he abandoned.

To get justice for herself, she goes to the capital to find someone, only to be humiliated and beaten. In desperation, she seeks help from Ruan Rongruo, her father's student, because he once promised her father he would look after her.

Ruan Rongruo, now the esteemed Grand Secretary, takes her in after gazing deeply at her. But as he is seeking justice for her, Gu Weixiao stabs her, and she wakes up reborn in the days before her husband divorced her.

Reborn, Su Linlang is determined to fight back. Gu Weixiao wants a divorce? Fine, pay up! He wants to divorce her? Sure, pay more!

She turns to Ruan Rongruo, who is cold-tempered and cannot afford to take the imperial exams, and says, "I'll pay for you to sit the exams and help you rise to the highest ranks and fulfill your ambitions." She wants to repay him for his kindness in her previous life.

No one knows that Ruan Rongruo, always cold as frost, lies awake night after night after learning that Su Linlang is married, experiencing for the first time the regret of wanting something he cannot have.

Theme: Have the courage to choose again.