Before her wedding, Min Yunhe had no idea her husband already loved someone else.
During her years with the Zhou family, she endured her mother-in-law's torment and her sister-in-law's provocations without complaint. Her only comfort was the belief that her husband cared for her.
But then he brought home a woman and said he wanted to take her in. Yunhe's heart died, too.
Lying on her bed late at night, she thought back to her youth. As the only daughter of a marquis's household, she had been nobly born. There were countless young men from distinguished families in the capital, all graceful and eloquent, yet she had fallen for Zhou Xian, a rough general who could barely read and had spent years fighting on the frontier.
Zhou Xian had no idea how to treat a woman gently. The first time he kissed her, he bit her lip until it bled, and he was just as unrestrained in bed.
If she could live her life over, she wouldn't marry Zhou Xian.
When she opened her eyes, she really had returned to the past.
Red candles wept in the room. It was the morning after her wedding...
Looking at his cold face looming over her, she was instantly overcome with rage and kicked him off the bed.
If he didn't like a noblewoman like her, then as it happened, she no longer wanted to like a boor like him.
She wanted a divorce!
*
At first, Zhou Xian hadn't cared one way or another about marrying Min Yunhe. His mother had been pressing him, and Min Yunhe happened to like him, so he married her.
But strangely, his wife seemed different from before their wedding. She was still gentle, but she wasn't as clingy as she used to be.
He thought they could spend their lives together, but instead he received a letter of divorce.
When he asked why, she said, "I want to play drinking games and compose poetry with my husband, but you can't."
*
The day Zhou Xian recovered his memories, he watched Min Yunhe painting with another man.
The veins on the back of his hand stood out as he gazed at her, his expression dark.
They had been married for two lifetimes. How could he possibly let her leave?
Theme: Be sincere with the one you love
