After Eloping from My Wedding, My Ex-Husband Keeps Dragging Me Back (Both Reborn)

★ Ming Zhao was a low-ranking prince. His only value came from looking so much like the late crown prince.

He had to take the crown prince's place and marry his fiance, the head of the great noble houses, the brilliant and celebrated Duke of Song, Zhao Heng.

Zhao Heng and the crown prince had grown up together and shared a deep bond. Ming Zhao had no intention of throwing himself at Zhao Heng and inviting humiliation.

Fortunately, Zhao Heng treated their marriage as a mere formality. From the day Ming Zhao entered the duke's estate, Zhao Heng never came home.

Ming Zhao already had someone in his heart, so he thought: This is hilarious. I get to live my own life, and I still have money to spend.

★ Then, on the night their kingdom fell, the enemy crown prince personally led his army to the city gates and demanded the Duke of Song's wife. Only then did the useless prince Ming Zhao spare the people of the city.

Ming Zhao hid in a dark cellar, afraid.

But someone came through the shadows of the night. It was the person who had saved him in the cold palace when he was young, the one with whom he had shared warmth, and whom he had secretly kept in his heart for years.

Ming Zhao thought he had found hope.

Then he heard someone address the man: "Duke of Song."

Ming Zhao's eyes reddened. So the person he loved was none other than his husband, who was his husband in name only, never wanted to see him, and would never touch him.

Had he come to hand Ming Zhao over to someone else?

Rather than be offered up to the enemy crown prince by the person he admired, by the man who was supposedly his husband, Ming Zhao would rather end his own life.

With a heart ashen with despair, he bit through the poison capsule hidden in his tooth. He died in an instant.

★ Ming Zhao didn't know that after his death, the usually composed and self-controlled Duke of Song clutched him desperately in his arms, eyes bloodshot, calling his name again and again.

Ming Zhao had no way of knowing that Zhao Heng's hidden identity was none other than the enemy crown prince.

Zhao Heng had once been ambushed by assassins and nearly killed. Outside the cold palace, the young Ming Zhao had saved him.

The boy had leaned over the palace wall and smiled sweetly at him. "Don't be scared, big brother. I'll stay with you and we'll survive together!"

The heart that had been as cold as stone softened in an instant.

But now, the person who had promised to stay with him forever had died in his arms.

That night, with snow and wind raging all around, Zhao Heng held Ming Zhao's body and knelt before a statue for seven days and seven nights, begging the heavens to let his wife open his eyes again.

★ Ming Zhao was reborn six years earlier.

But he never expected Zhao Heng's proposal to come early, too, with Zhao Heng specifically asking for him.

This is hilarious. I've already died once. Who would marry their late husband?

Who hasn't liked a few scumbags when they were young?

Ming Zhao tried every way he could to flee and hide, but his former husband always caught him and dragged him back.

At last, Ming Zhao couldn't take it anymore. He threw caution to the wind and decided to seek refuge with the enemy crown prince. At last, he had some peace, and no one came to catch him again, until he reached the enemy kingdom's capital and met the crown prince.

The man descended the towering steps, one at a time, slowly coming to stand before him. He took Ming Zhao's hand and said hoarsely, "I've finally been waiting for you to come."

Ming Zhao: ...

So he was the stupid rabbit who'd been waiting by the tree for the rabbit to come back! QAQ

1. This is the basic premise. The details and blurb may still be adjusted when I start writing in earnest.

2. In his previous life, the top only loved his precious shou.

3. There might be children. I haven't decided yet, so I'll say more when I start posting~

Theme: No matter what circumstances you find yourself in, never give up on yourself. Your light is waiting just ahead.