The Nobleman's First Wife Is Reborn

Xu Tang had a wonderful marriage. Her husband, Gu Yucheng, was as handsome as a moonlit jade tree, graceful and refined.

After she married him, his career flourished, making everyone envious.

She enjoyed the wealth and status Gu Yucheng brought her, while taking care of the entire Gu household as an unremarkable but competent matriarch.

Although Gu Yucheng was always rather cool toward her, they could still have lived together in harmony until old age. But unexpectedly, a simple cold somehow ended up taking Xu Tang's life.

Only after Xu Tang died did she discover that she was a supporting female character in a storybook, while Gu Yucheng was its male lead.

For years after her death, Gu Yucheng never remarried. He had no concubines or bedroom maids, and patiently raised their children alone for all those years.

Just when everyone thought Gu Yucheng would remain a virtuous widower for the rest of his life,

he fell in love again.

He brought a sweet young wife into the household. After a drawn-out dance of advances and retreats, passion and heartache, the usually aloof Gu Yucheng, like a flower atop a high peak, finally gave in.

Then Xu Tang's children were sent far away. His new wife dredged up a baseless incident from more than a decade earlier to pin the blame on Xu Tang, successfully having her memorial tablet removed from the Gu family home and her grave moved elsewhere.

From then on, Gu Yucheng and his young wife lived happily together until old age.

Furious at the storybook's plot, Xu Tang was reborn in the past.

Back then, she was the beloved daughter of the Xu family, soft and adorable, while Gu Yucheng was a poor young man lodging with her family, isolated and alone, enduring bullying and ridicule.

In the past, Xu Tang had been the only one to speak to him and secretly protect him from others. But now, she would no longer show him any kindness.

Whoever wants to pick that flower on the high peak can do it. She was done trying.

Gu Yucheng's meals became cold leftovers, and ink spots appeared all over his books when he studied. He endured it all in silence.

Then he noticed that the snacks once left on his desk were now given to someone else, and Xu Tang, who had always chattered around him, no longer even looked his way.

For the first time, Gu Yucheng panicked.

After tossing and turning all night, he quietly stopped Xu Tang as she was going to play with someone else. His voice trembling, he asked, "Little Tang, why... don't you talk to me anymore?"

*The blurb does not represent the entire plot or characterization.

The historical romance serial Eldest Sister-in-Law Is a Problem is being revised and will launch soon.

To outsiders, Jiang Yueyi is the elegant wife of Count Chengping. Her husband, Qi Hao, is young and gentle, and has no concubines or bedroom maids. They treat each other with respect.

Only Jiang Yueyi knows that her husband is too frail to consummate their marriage.

She had no choice but to stay in order to escape her harsh stepmother at home. Everything between them is only for show.

But as time passes, she needs a child to secure her position, while Qi Hao and the count's household need an heir.

Jiang Yueyi sets her sights on Qi Yuan, Qi Hao's younger brother.

Although born to a concubine, he is handsome and refined, with a serene elegance like spring willows beneath a bright moon. He is also exceptionally intelligent and earned his scholarly honors through his own efforts at a young age.

On the night Qi Yuan returns home, Jiang Yueyi takes off her fine clothes and jewelry, casting aside her usual demure manner as well.

Disguised as a lowly maid, she enters Qi Yuan's tent.

After several nights of passion, Qi Yuan leaves the count's household, and Jiang Yueyi soon becomes pregnant, as she had hoped.

Just as she thinks everything will proceed as planned, a sudden fire destroys it all.

Qi Hao dies.

And she sees Qi Yuan again as he hurries back home.

Qi Yuan had been away from home for years. On his first night back, his elder brother's principal wife sent a delicate young maid to his room.

The maid arrived late at night, with a slender willow waist and delicate hands in light clothing.

The dim candlelight revealed half of her profile, as luminous as a pearl and fresh as a dew-covered hibiscus.

She left before dawn, like a spring breeze that came and went without a trace.

Afterward, he left the count's household. Once everything was arranged, he intended to bring her to live with him, only to learn that she had died, leaving him with nothing but regret.

Not long after, his frail elder brother, ill for many years, died suddenly. Qi Yuan returned to pay his respects.

At the funeral, he saw an unfamiliar woman in plain mourning clothes kneeling before the coffin.

She was his sister-in-law, Jiang Yueyi.

She was already pregnant. She covered her face with one hand as she wept like a flower in the rain, while her other hand rested on her swollen belly.

Too shy to lift her head and look at him,

Qi Yuan happened to glimpse her eyes, glistening with tears. They seemed strangely familiar,

as though she had once looked at him just like that,

like the maid who had been in his room.

Qi Yuan was in turmoil, but all the evidence surrounding his brother's death pointed to Jiang Yueyi.

He had no choice but to place her under house arrest for the time being.

Eventually, the truth came to light.

When Qi Yuan saw Jiang Yueyi again, she was holding her daughter and looking at him coldly.

He hurried to her and stopped her as she tried to leave. For the first time in his life, he said something that violated the natural order of things: "You don't have to forgive me. But you've already had my child, sister-in-law. Do you still intend to remain faithful to my brother?"

Note: 1. The heroine had already divorced her former husband on the first day of their marriage, so she did not have a relationship with another man while still married to him.

2. The leads only begin a romantic relationship after their family ties are severed. Nothing immoral happens between them, and when they meet, they are both unmarried.

3. The second male lead did not divorce the heroine to set her free or spare her trouble. He had another reason.

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