Why Does the Grand Secretary Love Me So Much?

In her previous life, Yuan Yi was an unfavored concubine-born daughter. But because she was exceptionally beautiful, whenever distinguished guests from the capital visited her home, she used underhanded means to sleep with them.

The man was as gentle as jade. Since things had come to this, he asked the Yuan family for her hand in marriage.

Yuan Yi married into a high-ranking household just as she had hoped. She thought she could live a life of privilege, but her husband wanted to take concubines, and the old madam looked down on her origins and made things difficult for her at every turn. Later, when she became pregnant, the household’s concubines joined forces to force her to take an abortion medicine. In the end, her baby died in the womb, and she died in the bitter winter cold.

As her soul departed, she heard her husband regretfully say, "She’s dead. What a pity. Otherwise, we could still have used her to bargain with the Grand Secretary."

Only then did she learn that her husband had married her because he was locked in a power struggle with the Grand Secretary of the dynasty.

She didn’t know what connection she had to the exalted Grand Secretary. All she knew was that when she woke up, she had been reborn at the age of fifteen.

She was not yet married, had not yet left her family home, and had never been pregnant or given birth to a stillborn child.

Just as in her previous life, guests came from the capital. To avoid them, she hid in her chambers and never showed herself again.

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Huo Jin was the Grand Secretary of the dynasty. He had once taken a daughter from a humble household as his wife. She was exceptionally beautiful and devoted to him. Later, when he wanted to seize the throne, he asked her to offer herself to the emperor, and she agreed without hesitation.

For those three years, she endured humiliation at the emperor’s side, all to secure useful information for Huo Jin.

With her help, he finally toppled the emperor and became the supreme ruler. But he despised her for having slept with the emperor and did not keep his earlier promise to make her empress.

So, on the night of his enthronement, she drank a cup of poisoned wine and died.

Only then did he learn what regret meant.

With the world in his hands, what use was it without her?

Thankfully, Heaven gave him another chance to start over. He watched her marry another man but didn’t dare reveal himself, and could only watch as she died. In that life, he grew old alone.

In his next life, he discovered that she wasn’t married yet!

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