After Their Divorce, She and Her Ex-Husband Became Happily Ever After Mortal Enemies

[Broken Mirror, Never Mended / Second Male Lead Wins / The Pursuit of Love's Funeral Pyre]

With a single divorce agreement, Qi Xue ended five years of a miserable marriage to Wei Jue.

Looking back, she could only laugh at herself.

She knew he had another woman in his heart, yet she still married him.

She knew he was at odds with her brother, yet she distanced herself from her own family for his sake.

She never did anything he disliked.

But when his former love returned to the capital, he rushed over without hesitation to fawn on her.

She was tired.

Wei Jue entered government service as a young man and rose to the highest ministerial rank by the age of thirty. Handsome and refined, he never took a concubine throughout his years of marriage and enjoyed an excellent reputation.

And yet two women had always occupied his heart.

Ten years into his marriage, his former love returned. Distracted and confused, he even thought he could have the best of both worlds.

Instead, what he received was Qi Xue's divorce agreement.

So she'd left. Let her go.

But later, he saw her laughing and chatting happily with his sworn enemy, Huai Zhen, the greatest military commander in the court.

That man should have been her husband. If Wei Jue hadn't resorted to underhanded tactics back then...

Wei Jue panicked.

In the third month of spring, General Huai held his wedding. Wei Jue had no choice but to offer congratulations to his formidable rival. The red figure in the wedding hall looked more and more familiar. She paid him no mind, wanting only to leave as soon as possible. Then a breeze stirred, and he saw his former wife's face. He fled in disarray.

When his leg ailment flared up, there was no one to make him restorative soup. When he came home each day, no one waited by the door, eagerly watching for his return. No one made his favorite red bean soup. His new clothes no longer came in fresh designs...

Only then did Wei Jue realize that Qi Xue had become an inseparable part of his life. He assumed that living with Huai Zhen, whose moods were as unpredictable as the weather, couldn't be any better for her than being with him.

But now she no longer had to take care of every little thing. She could go out in public, without having to be dignified or bound by tedious rules. General Huai would simply join in, keeping her company as she ran wild and caused a stir.

Wei Jue seemed to see the eighteen-year-old version of her again, and the more he saw, the less willing he was to let go.

The next day, he held a banquet and trapped her in the back courtyard.

"Xue'er, come back. I've thought it through. I only love you."

She replied nonchalantly, "You still had to think about it?"

Before she could finish, Huai Zhen had already pulled her away.

The taciturn man looked angry, but didn't dare grip her hand any harder than necessary. He kept looking back at her every few steps.

"You taciturn fool, I just realized..."

"You regret it? You still have feelings for him? Don't forget, you're my wife."

He would reclaim everything that belonged to him.

[Reader's Guide]

1. Angst and sweetness intertwined, but the pursuit at the funeral pyre won't win her back.

2. The heroine is not a virgin; the hero is.

3. The official ranks are modeled on the Tang dynasty, while court scenes follow a fictionalized Ming-Qing theatrical style. The heroine is a commandery princess and the adopted daughter of the Grand Princess. In this story, the Grand Princess's power and status are equal to the Crown Prince's. This setup involves major plot points, so I won't reveal more for now. Divorce procedure in this story: the couple's divorce papers are stamped and submitted to the Ministry of Revenue, which then dissolves the marriage.

4. The ghost mentioned in the story is the heroine's secret identity. There are no real ghosts.

5. I changed the marriage from ten years to five in the blurb. Sorry, sorry! When I started drafting, I'd planned on five years. I glanced at the blurb and saw ten years. I wrote it last December and didn't pay much attention to the details. Sorry, sorry.

6. Updates every other day.

7. The story is split 60/40 between romance and plot.

8. While the heroine was still married to her former husband, the two leads had no intimate contact.

Theme: Those who are meant to be together will find their way to each other.