Song Yunfu knew Zhao Cheng detested her. He hated her so much that he abruptly gave up his playboy ways, applied himself to his studies, and passed the imperial examination just to get away from her.
By then, they had been married for over a year, and Song Yunfu had just given birth to a daughter.
When their daughter turned one, Zhao Cheng volunteered to leave the capital for an official post elsewhere.
Song Yunfu didn't care. She didn't have much affection for him either.
She had originally wanted to marry Zhao Xun, Zhao Cheng's elder brother and the eldest son of the Zhao family.
Through a twist of fate, she had schemed against the wrong man and ended up marrying Zhao Cheng.
If she hadn't tricked him, Zhao Cheng should have married his childhood sweetheart.
During their arguments, Song Yunfu most often said, “You're so useless. You're nowhere near as good as your elder brother!”
And Zhao Cheng would sneer, “And what about you? You're not even fit to hold a candle to her.”
Since they could barely stand one another, when Zhao Cheng asked her shortly before leaving the capital whether she wanted to go with him, Song Yunfu knew enough to pretend not to care. “Nannan is still little and can't be away from me. You should go on your own, husband.”
That day, Zhao Cheng gave her a cold, lingering look, then turned and left with a flick of his sleeve.
That night, as Song Yunfu slept, someone settled heavily on top of her.
Reeking of wine, Zhao Cheng bit her earlobe and sneered, “It was me who jumped into the lake to save you back then. Yun Niang must be so bitter about that, right?”
In his drunken fury, he pinned her down and tormented her all night.
Because he detested her, Zhao Cheng spent a year and a half away from the capital without sending her a single word.
He didn't even come to see her when she was so ill she was on the verge of death.
As it happens, the place where he was posted was where Song Yunfu's birth mother had remarried.
*
When Song Yunfu opened her eyes again, she had returned to six months earlier.
She was nineteen, and her daughter Nannan had just celebrated her second birthday.
A few days before, she had caught a chill while nursing her mother-in-law back to health, and had been ill for days without getting better.
In her previous life, she had dragged herself through her illness while managing the household and carefully putting up with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law's provocations. Exhausted in body and mind, she had been unable to recover.
Meanwhile, her husband Zhao Cheng had already found someone new who knew how to care for him.
With a second chance at life, Song Yunfu was determined to protect herself.
She used her illness as an excuse to hand the household management duties back, and was just planning to ask for a divorce when Zhao Cheng, who had ignored her completely, suddenly sent her a letter.
In it, he addressed her as “My wife, Yunfu,” said that Nannan had turned two, and asked when she would bring Nannan to join him.
Song Yunfu: “???”
Reader notes:
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and the ending is happy.
2. The blurb is from the female lead's point of view. There was a misunderstanding in the previous life.
Blurb uploaded on January 20, 2026.
Theme: Make peace with yourself.
