My Runaway Ex-Husband Begs Me to Remarry Him

Xu Lianxia was an orphan living under someone else's roof. Before her father died, he arranged a childhood betrothal for her, and her uncle decided to send her to Shengjing to marry her fiancé.

She had heard that her betrothed was the renowned Prince of Pingnan, the emperor's most beloved younger brother. She thought that if she lived properly, she could at least find a place to belong in this life.

But on their wedding day, her husband ran away. Only then did she learn that he had long been in love with a woman from the martial world. The two had arranged to flee together and elope.

Overnight, she became the laughingstock of all Shengjing.

The rumors that filled the city cut like knives. Even her uncle was humiliated, and in a fit of anger, he took her back home.

She never imagined that one day she would return to Shengjing.

On the day she came back, the city was covered in red silk, a grand bridal procession stretched for miles, and crowds packed the streets. The emperor and empress personally welcomed the Prince of Pingnan and his princess back to the capital. They even bestowed generous rewards on her uncle's family, preserving their dignity.

Everyone praised the Princess of Pingnan for her skill in winning the prince back. At last, she could wash away her humiliation and hold her head high.

But that night, Xu Lianxia slit her wrists.

Her suicide note contained just one sentence: The lotus flowers in Jiangnan are blooming. Father, Mother, I'm coming to find you.

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Xiao Shen was pampered by several emperors from childhood. At thirteen, he went to war and won fame in a single battle; at fifteen, he was made a prince. In Shengjing, who could be more honored than he was, apart from the emperor?

Yet an ancestral injunction forced him to marry an orphan girl he had never even met. How ridiculous.

The more the court officials and his elder brother pushed him to marry, the more he rebelled. He wanted to see whether this Xu girl could withstand his wrath.

On the day of the wedding, he fled with his senior sister. Watching the people of the city run around like headless flies searching for them, he laughed with delight.

Anyone who forced him to do something he didn't want to do would pay the price.

But he never imagined that one day he would pay for it himself.

He thought he had merely fallen in love with an ordinary female physician. At worst, she was an ordinary woman with a little history in her past. For her to win his favor and rise to become the Princess of Pingnan overnight was an immense blessing.

But she said, “The moment you ran away from our wedding, everything went wrong.”

He did everything he could to make up for his past mistake. He arranged a new wedding, with a bridal procession stretching for miles and the emperor welcoming her in person, giving her all the honor she deserved. But in the end, all he received was her cold corpse.

She would rather die than go home with him.

P.S. The male lead does not like Qiyue.

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Blurb: Tianshu was once the most outstanding young genius of the Fusheng Sect. She formed her golden core at seven, broke through to the Mahayana stage at seventeen, and became the envy of all as the next sect leader of the Fusheng Sect.

Then, in a single day, her looks were ruined, her cultivation vanished, and she lost all her power.

At her most desperate, Tianshu met that man.

He was taciturn, but he did everything he could to help her recover her cultivation. He even cut out his core and gave it to her, pulling her out of the mire.

She thought she had finally met someone who truly cared about her, someone worthy of her love.

When the phoenix blossoms bloomed at the gate, she would marry him.

Until, on the night before their wedding, she heard him speaking with her younger sister, who had inherited her power.

Tianyu: “Are you really going to marry that ugly woman?”

He: “I owe her. I'll spend the rest of my life repaying her.”

Tianyu: “Do you feel guilty toward her, or... are you trying to get back at me?”

It turned out the whole thing had been a lie from beginning to end.

They had tricked her into burning her core to resist the Liuli Heavenly Calamity, turning her from the heir to an immortal sect into a cripple. Even that hadn't been enough for them. They had to deceive her into falling in love, making her a tool for revenge in their tangled love and hate.

On the wedding day, birds soared through the sky beneath a sea of red clouds.

Before the gathered immortal sects, Tianshu cut open her abdomen and returned her core.

Life was like a dream. She would rather break than bend.

“I don't need your pity. I, Tianshu, never regret what I do.”

“Yanxi, from this day forward, we have nothing to do with each other.”

With a light wave of her hand, Tianshu fell from Mount Wanqiu.

Without her core, all her magic power was gone. She was certain to die.

The last thing she saw before death was him throwing himself toward her with all his strength.

“No, no!”

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The fallen immortal Yanxi searched for his dead fiancée for seventy full years. He crossed the Demon Realm, braved perilous chasms, and endured the agony of shattered bones and a torn soul, but never found the slightest trace of her.

Until, at the next Immortal Sect Tournament, he caught sight of her.

“Tianshu!” In that moment, he rushed toward her, forgetting all dignity.

She acted as if she hadn't heard him and walked onto the stage with her sword.

“Canglan Mountain, cultivator of the Heartless Dao, Tianshu.”

Theme: Not every mistake can be made right.