A Second Marriage of Rare Beauty

[Love-Savvy Con Artist * Rigid Man Goes Mad]

Wei Heng spent his entire life following the rules, old-fashioned and inflexible. The only reckless thing he ever did was bring a country girl back to his residence and plan to take her as a favored concubine.

He told her, "Your birth is lowly. The best you can hope for is the status of a concubine."

Wu Man lowered her eyes in submission, her expression shy. In her heart, though, she thought with a touch of coldness: A concubine's place was nowhere near enough.

Now that she had come to the capital, she looked at that elegant, refined eldest son and thought, Since I have to marry someone anyway, why not marry someone better?

*

Wei Tao, the third-place laureate of the imperial examination in the nineteenth year of Yongsheng, was the unshakable pillar of the Wei family, as well as the beloved elder brother of Wei Heng.

As long as Wei Tao was around, Wei Heng, whose academic abilities were mediocre, was always the one overlooked.

Only Wu Man looked at him. Only she cared about him.

Wei Heng thought tenderly, She loves me so much. When I marry a virtuous wife someday, I won't let Wu Man suffer any injustice.

He never expected that the only thing he would get was a wedding banquet for his brother Wei Tao and Wu Man.

On their wedding day, Wei Heng stood with a livid face, forced to offer a toast. Looking at the radiant bride, he ground out through clenched teeth, "Sister-in-law."

At last, he understood that Wu Man was not what she seemed. She was a consummate actress, and she had been deceiving him all along.

Wei Heng told himself he would never be fooled by her again.

Until Wei Tao died far from home, and Wu Man, with nowhere else to turn, knocked on his door once more.

Looking at the beautiful, gaunt woman with tears streaming down her face, Wei Heng couldn't stop himself from softening again. If she really knew she was wrong, then forgiving her one more time and protecting her one more time wouldn't hurt.

After another reckless night, Wu Man once again faced the barbed words of the clan members, smiling brightly.

"The physician says I am carrying A Tao's posthumous child."

"The child in my belly is the Wei family's legitimate eldest grandson. Who would dare lay a hand on me?"

Everyone was stunned. Only Wei Heng crushed the porcelain cup in his hand, blood flowing freely, as he thought darkly: She fooled me again!

*

The woman Wei Heng was about to marry was stolen away by his elder brother. Later, after Wei Tao died, he gripped Wu Man's face and said expressionlessly, "Sister-in-law, don't you want to keep being the mistress of the household and control the Wei family's wealth?"

Wu Man was supposed to marry him in the first place. So what if she had been his sister-in-law? After all the twists and turns, she was simply returning to where she belonged.

#The leads' romance begins after her relationship with the elder brother has ended. No inappropriate messaging.

Coming soon: My Husband Became a Love Fool

Young sweethearts, reunited across two lives / Married first, love later / Both reborn / The hero remembers far earlier than the heroine

[Noble House Scion * Gentle, Sweet Girl]

*

Everyone said Sun Baoyi was lucky to have secured a marriage agreement with a son of the Duan family.

If Duan Sui's childhood sweetheart hadn't had her family's fortunes ruined, breaking off their bond, there would have been no way Sun Baoyi could have scooped up this opportunity.

Sun Baoyi thought so herself. But whenever she stood among the crowd and gazed from afar at his dazzling figure, she still liked him so much, even though he was cold and distant toward her, as chilly as frost.

Until the lantern festival, when Sun Baoyi went to find him but was abandoned halfway there, becoming a laughingstock among all the young ladies.

Sun Baoyi went home and cried bitterly, deciding she would not marry him.

As it happened, Duan Sui came down with a fever that night, so she planned to wait until he recovered before making it clear to him that their marriage agreement was off.

Liking someone was so painful. Sun Baoyi never wanted to like him again.

Who could have guessed that after recovering, Duan Sui would become a completely different person?

*

The noble scion who had once seemed utterly unattainable now spent every day by her side. When Sun Baoyi was in low spirits, he would tell jokes to cheer her up.

He was just like the love fools her friends talked about, doing nothing all day but orbiting around her.

Everyone else was horrified, wondering if some evil spirit had possessed him.

Sun Baoyi had asked him why he was suddenly so good to her.

The taciturn, refined young lord hesitated, then looked at her resolutely. "I like you."

"Because I like you."

Sun Baoyi's face turned redder that day than it had beneath her bridal makeup on her wedding day.

Later, Sun Baoyi began to find it strange. Whenever Duan Sui stared at her absentmindedly, it always seemed as if he were looking through her at someone else.

She could never figure it out. She always thought Duan Sui still cared about his previous engagement, and even wondered if she was a lowly substitute, like the heroines in storybooks.

Until she began having dreams, catching glimpses of scenes both familiar and strange.

They were about the past, about how she had died young from heartbreak over Duan Sui...

Only then did she understand. Duan Sui really had been possessed by an evil spirit: his own self from his previous life.

*

Sun Baoyi began having hazy dreams and mentioned them to Duan Sui.

She came to regret it deeply after seeing him break down and go mad.

That day, the moonlike young lord held her in his arms. Blood-red aura filled the air, talismans fluttered everywhere, and the chanting of sutras rang harshly in their ears. Buddhist prayer beads wound around Sun Baoyi's wrist, one loop after another.

Duan Sui wept and pleaded like a madman:

"Don't remember! Don't remember!"

Theme: Beware of being deceived.