You Can't Stop Chasing Someone Halfway

[Upcoming: After Being Reborn, I Married a Powerful Minister] See the end for the blurb

The Ex-Wife Chasing Her Husband to the Crematorium

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A sweet little white rabbit with a dark side vs. a green tea high-and-mighty beauty

Luo Shuli came from a prominent family and was an only child. He also got pretty good grades, ranking first in his year throughout all three years of high school. More importantly, he was handsome, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a physique like a model's. Countless girls pursued him, but not a single one succeeded.

People said he was like a pink rose blooming among the clouds, too beautiful to touch.

Xia Shihua agreed, until she fell in love. Then the picture changed.

The man who had never once spoken to her of his own accord began appearing by her side all the time, and he couldn't hide how envious he was of her boyfriend.

Only, his envy sounded a little strange.

"Your boyfriend is really popular with women. Unlike me, I barely have any female friends."

"Your boyfriend is so popular. I bet plenty of girls have sat in the passenger seat. Unlike me, in all this time, you're the only girl who's ever sat there."

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Completed novel: The Widowed Nanny at My Friend's House

--Upcoming novel: After Being Reborn, I Married a Powerful Minister

A beautiful girl with a love-addled brain x a reserved, secretly passionate powerful minister

The Ex-Wife Chasing Her Husband to the Crematorium

Yan Douxing was the only daughter of a wealthy merchant, raised with every indulgence.

She fell for a poor scholar. He couldn't afford to attend the official academy? No problem. Yan Douxing begged her father to establish a private school.

He repeatedly failed the imperial examinations? No problem. She spent money to buy him an official post.

But in the end, he brought about her family's ruin.

After she died, her body was abandoned in a mass grave. In the end, Si Yanhua came to bury her.

By then, he was already a favorite of the emperor. He later rose steadily through the ranks, becoming the Minister of State, second only to the emperor and above all others.

After being reborn, Yan Douxing told her parents she wanted to change her future husband.

Her father was so excited that he brought her a stack of portraits of eligible, unmarried men from the academy.

Yan Douxing looked at the first portrait and her hand shook in fright. The papers scattered all over the floor. "Father, how dare you!"

Her father glared at her, his beard bristling with anger. "You're the one who's out of line!"

But Si Yanhua was destined to become a powerful minister who could control everything. How could she possibly entertain such thoughts about him?

Yet once the idea took hold, it seemed impossible to let go.

Si Yanhua wore rough clothes that did nothing to diminish his otherworldly bearing. He lacked a scholar's haughty air, but had all the talent of one.

Yan Douxing secretly thought that he wasn't the Minister of State yet, so perhaps they still had a chance.

She pursued him with all her heart. People said she had no shame, trailing after Si Yanhua every day, but she never cared.

Until one day, she overheard him describe her as "promiscuous in her behavior and vulgar in her bearing."

Yan Douxing had never known that he thought so poorly of her.

She thought perhaps she should never have entertained such delusions.

Si Yanhua figured that since he would have to marry eventually, he might as well find someone who would obey him. That would keep the household peaceful and let him focus on his career.

After achieving fame and success, he returned to discover that the girl who had once sworn she would marry no one but him was about to exchange wedding vows with someone else.

For the first time, the usually composed man panicked. He rushed over to confront her. Yan Douxing, who used to sweetly call him Mingxu as she followed behind him, now looked at him coldly and addressed him with distant formality: "My lord."

My lord? What do you mean, my lord? Didn't you used to call me Mingxu?

After they married, Si Yanhua granted Yan Douxing just about everything she asked for.

To support her interests, Si Yanhua petitioned the emperor to let women take the imperial examinations.

When the members of the third branch scolded her for meddling in her maiden family's affairs as a married-out daughter, he amended the laws of the land, granting women inheritance rights.

Later, she said women should also have the right to divorce.

This time, he didn't agree right away. Instead, he studied her expression, wondering if he had done something wrong recently.

Only after drawing a complete blank did he ask cautiously, "What made you think of that?"

Theme: Love life and work hard

A reference to The Outcast