Ning Li had been living with the Meng family for years, and Meng Sui Tan, the eldest legitimate son, treated her like a precious treasure.
On the night she came of age, she wrapped her soft, boneless arms around her cousin's lean waist.
She thought Meng Sui Tan would soften and be unable to refuse her.
Meng Sui Tan pried her pale wrist away with his long, slender fingers.
His words, heavy with utter disappointment, struck her heart: "I can't believe I raised you to be so shameless."
The whole household soon heard about it. Before long, Ning Li was disgraced, and everyone despised her.
Afterward, Meng Jijiu sent her to Pu Hua Temple to devote herself to religious study.
The favored daughter of Heaven became a flower in the mud.
For three years, there wasn't a single day when she didn't hope Meng Sui Tan would come take her home. She even wrote to him every day, telling him she knew she had been wrong.
Instead, she received news of Meng Sui Tan's engagement, along with word that the Meng family would bring her back so she could watch him get engaged and finally put an end to her hopes.
It was also over those thousand-plus days and nights that Ning Li gradually understood just how great the difference in their status was. Everything she had received was no more than a casual handout from Meng Sui Tan, yet she had thought she could do whatever she wanted, even going so far as to dream of having a place at his side.
He had never thought much of her at all.
The prayer beads broke and scattered across the floor. Ning Li knew that there could never be anything between her and her elder brother again.
Buddha has never saved those who love.
After three years apart, Ning Li returned with prayer beads wrapped around her hand. Her expression was calm, and she serenely smiled as she offered her congratulations to the gathered company despite their barbed remarks. There was not a trace of resentment on her face.
Later, when she won first place at the painting academy and ran off with a bright smile toward her senior fellow disciple, Meng Sui Tan's body tensed almost imperceptibly.
Later, Meng Sui Tan's eyes reddened. "Jiaojiao, your elder brother was wrong."
Ning Li's smile was faint. "Lord Meng, we have nothing to do with each other anymore." She had many people who loved her now; she would no longer stubbornly keep running into a wall.
Blurb written on 2023.12.17 and archived.
Reading Guide:
Both are each other's only partners, one-on-one happy ending. A melodramatic story with plenty of love triangles and confrontations. The heroine is intense and devoted; the hero is cold and controlling, with a paternal streak. He's a strong case of a man who eats his words, and his mouth is always the most stubborn. Neither character is perfect.
They deserve each other.
[Completed work: The Abandoned Wife of a Powerful Family, The Elder Brother Takes His Younger Brother's Wife]
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"After Being Reborn, I Find My Husband Is Actually My Eldest Brother-in-Law"
A conservative, abstinent patriarch x a delicate, voluptuous beauty
Qu Yaoyu woke up on the seventh day after her husband's death and was shocked to discover that she had slept with her eldest brother-in-law. The marks covering her body made it clear what had happened.
She thought she was doomed, but her brother-in-law merely said, "Come back with me to Luoheng Residence. I'll report it to Aunt tomorrow." Having suffered her mother-in-law's torment for so long, she readily agreed.
Over the next ten years, Xiao Tingshu treated her very well. The only strange thing was that he wouldn't let her go out alone, and wouldn't let her smile at other men, not even the servants.
But an accident took Xiao Tingshu's life, and she was poisoned by the Xiao clan elders for having an illicit relationship with her husband's brother.
After she was reborn, when she saw Xiao Tingshu again, she called him her husband and instinctively threw herself into his arms.
But Xiao Tingshu frowned and quickly dodged to the side, leaving Qu Yaoyu tumbling into the nearby grass, her hair disheveled and her clothes covered in mud.
The Xiao Tingshu who had always called her his darling in a tender voice now looked cold, with shock and disgust faintly visible in his eyes.
"You must have mistaken me for someone else, little sister-in-law."
Qu Yaoyu's face turned pale, but his next words made her feel as if she had fallen into hell.
"You are married to my third brother now. I hope you will watch your words and actions from now on, and never do anything disgraceful or improper."
As he spoke, a slender, elegant woman stood beside him, a stark contrast to Qu Yaoyu's seductive and improper manner. After issuing his warning, Xiao Tingshu walked away with the woman at his side.
Only then did Qu Yaoyu realize that her former husband was still alive.
Xiao Tingshu, her eldest brother-in-law, had not been reborn like she had, and he even had a fiancee.
As the head of the Lanling Xiao clan, Xiao Tingshu had always been diligent and self-disciplined, observing propriety and ritual. If nothing unexpected happened, he would marry his chosen fiancee, and the two would treat each other with respect and work together as partners.
Until his younger brother took a wife.
Xiao Tingshu disliked this woman, finding her seductive and timid, and unwilling to attend to proper matters. He thought a woman like her would eventually hold his younger brother back if she became his wife.
He grew increasingly disgusted with her, while Qu Yaoyu gradually kept her distance from him.
Until one day, he thought he must have gone mad. He wanted to commit the most despicable acts, killing his younger brother and stealing his wife.
Reading Guide:
The heroine is delicate, loves to cry, and is fragile. The hero dislikes her at first, then gets his comeuppance.
The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. In his previous life, the hero forced her to be his, but the heroine was so clueless that she never realized it.
The second male lead did not die in the second life. He competes with the hero for the heroine.
The hero breaks down and grovels to win his wife back, gradually remembering his previous life.
Theme: Strive for what you cannot have
Scheming to Steal a Minister's Wife
Forced After Mistaking Him for My Fiancé
Jade in the Wrong Place
Delicate and Cool
Jade's Clear Song
After Disguising Myself as a Man and Attracting My Archrival
After I Was Forced to Give Myself to My Cold and Distant Nemesis
Claiming the Beloved Beauty
My Remarried Amnesiac Ex-Husband Regrets It
After Losing My Memory, I Unexpectedly Got a Happy Ending with My Ex
The Concubine Couldn't Escape (Reborn)
My Brother's Wife
Is this considered harassment by the male protagonist? What kind of crematorium is this? A greasy old man clings to a little girl, kissing her whenever he wants, hugging him whenever he wants. The heroine is shameless when she likes him, and when he likes her, he loudly announces it, wishing to ruin her reputation so that she can only marry him...
The heroine liked this Meng before, she was young and ignorant But this Meng is a mature official, and he threw the heroine into the temple and ignored her for three years. In addition, he now allows his family to seduce him with accusations of the heroine, without any concern for the heroine's reputation. Such a man and his family Is the heroine crazy and wants to get back together with him? The heroine still doesn't know that her senior brother likes her, so she is just pretending to be stupid. The heroine now has grandparents and several senior brothers. She lacks nothing and is very happy. Isn't it disgusting that the male protagonist now comes to give snacks and jewelry?
What's more, the male protagonist doesn't care what kind of love he doesn't have. He can kiss him, hold him, touch him or touch him whenever he wants. Isn't this all realized? What's the difference between falling in love?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Laughing to death, Jinjiang has its own cold-faced underwear-washing literature, and the male protagonist is really annoying.
What kind of crematorium is this for chasing my wife?
The male protagonist slapped the female protagonist, as well as the three years in the temple and the male protagonist's deliberate cold violence. The female protagonist should not let him lead her away again. If she does that, she will not be innocent but stupid.
The male protagonist's help is also shabby! Because Eighth Senior Brother was good to her, he had to be better so that he could get her back. But Brother Eighth loves from the heart and cares naturally. This wretched male protagonist was deliberately created One sunshine and one darkness
The male protagonist is not tortured at all, but the female protagonist is so slyly tortured, and the torture of the male protagonist is so light and unreal, the male protagonist completely controls the female protagonist, the more I watch, the more frustrated I am.
In fact, I have always been curious about why the male protagonist didn't slap himself before he regretted pursuing the female protagonist. Wasn't he quite straightforward when he hit the female protagonist? I also doubt that the male protagonist who is so crazy really does not have the gene for domestic violence.