Marrying My Cousin Again (Both Reborn)

Jiang Qinghe was born into a family of scholars. She was beautiful as a celestial maiden, with a clever and virtuous heart.

After her parents died, her uncle took advantage of the fact that there were no sons in Jiang Qinghe's branch of the family. He colluded with the clan elders to seize the family estate, taking back the properties her father had acquired.

Lost and helpless, Jiang Qinghe takes her young sister to the capital to seek refuge with the Dowager Lady of the Marquis of Jining's household.

The Dowager Lady loves the sisters as if they were her own granddaughters. If that incident had never happened, when Jiang Qinghe came of age, the Dowager Lady would have arranged for her to marry the third son of the Right Vice Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial.

But fate takes a sudden turn.

On the Dowager Lady's sixtieth birthday, Jiang Qinghe is set up and becomes intimate with Xu Huaishu, the heir to the marquisate.

When everyone bursts in, she is dazed and disheveled, clinging to Xu Huaishu as she shyly calls him "Cousin."

After such a scandal, the marriage the Dowager Lady had arranged for the sisters is naturally called off.

The wedding to Xu Huaishu is simple, with none of the traditional betrothal gifts or rites. Their life together afterward is equally muddled.

The Dowager Lady is so devastated that she can barely hold her head up. She is miserable every day and dies within a couple of years.

Her younger sister, Jiang Shuangjiang, suffers for her too, enduring everyone's gossip until she finally shaves her head and becomes a nun, spending her days before the Buddha.

When Jiang Qinghe opens her eyes again, she has returned to the age of sixteen.

The Dowager Lady is still in good health, and Shuangjiang is still innocent, carefree, and naive.

She is not yet the shameless vixen outsiders call a social climber who married above her station.

She can still choose a different path...

Reading Guide:

* Both leads' first relationship, happy ending.

* The male and female leads are not blood-related; they are not really cousins.

* Domestic power struggles, a little political intrigue, and a small ensemble cast.

* This is a fictional setting, so please don't nitpick historical details.

Theme: Life always has its low points. Make it through, and you'll see the light