In the thirteenth year of the Xing Sheng era, it came to the emperor's attention that Zhang Qi'an, Minister of Works, kept a mistress who was the daughter of a criminal. Before the soldiers sent to arrest her could arrive, a sudden fire buried everything in its flames.
Until the day she died, Qiu Yueqi waited for someone she was destined never to see.
After perishing in the fire, her soul lingered in the mortal world for years. Only then did she learn that the man she had given her whole heart to had merely treated her as a pawn, using her to the fullest before casting her aside like garbage.
From the moment they met, their relationship had been part of a grand conspiracy.
Coveting the Qiu family's fortune, secretly taking control of its business connections, then framing the family to bring it down: every step had been carefully plotted and carried out by the man she had called her beloved!
Dozens of members of the Qiu family were executed, while he alone rescued her and promised to find a way to clear their name.
Blinded by love, Qiu Yueqi believed him. She changed her name and became his mistress in Willow Lane.
But once she was no longer useful, he had his men set a fire that burned her to ashes.
One day, Qiu Yueqi awoke to find herself back on the day she had first met Zhang Qi'an.
The spring sunshine was bright, a gentle breeze stirred, and the familiar bustle filled her ears once more.
Without looking back, Qiu Yueqi walked in the opposite direction from the one she remembered.
She was going to find someone, someone who had once tried to pull her back from the brink. Blinded by what she thought was love, she had pushed him away, yet in the end, he was the one who gathered her remains.
In her past life, she had been blind, mistaking a worthless man for someone worthy of her love.
Now that she had finally seen the truth, she would never again be a mistress who humbled herself in the dust for love.
In her last life, he gathered her remains. In this one, she would be the one to see to his affairs.
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The fourth prince was a frail, sickly child whom the imperial physicians had declared would not live past the age of five.
Yet despite his failing health, which no one believed could last, he endured year after year.
No one knew he held someone in the deepest corner of his heart, someone he never dared to profane.
Time and again, dark thoughts crossed his mind: he could seize her by force and keep her by his side so she could never leave. But he feared his wretched body would only burden her.
If they could not spend their lives together, then he would be content to watch her find a good man and have someone to rely on for the rest of her life.
He never imagined that suppressing his jealousy and letting her go would lead her into the hands of a shameless wolf!
If that was how things were, then he might as well bind her to his side so she could never escape, and let her sink into ruin with him...
Warnings:
1. Both leads are reborn.
2. In her previous life, the heroine was a love-struck, naive fool who became a mistress for love.
3. The heroine grows step by step. She will not become clever overnight.
Theme: Strive for a better life.
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