Cannot Bear to Look Back

[Sweet romance, both leads are virgins, happy ending, no transmigration]

It's well known that the Minister of Personnel and his wife are deeply in love, a couple everyone envies.

Only Yu Sui, the Minister's wife herself, knows that the love and affection people praise have long since become an illusion.

Not long after she married Lu Lingxiao, he seemed to become a different person. Yu Sui initially thought he'd turned faithless, that he'd pretended to get close to her and gone to great lengths to marry her for her family's power and status, then dropped his act as soon as he got what he wanted.

Faced with her husband's cold treatment, Yu Sui loses heart. She hides the fact that she's pregnant and resolves to raise the child alone, no longer hoping they can live together in harmony and go everywhere side by side.

But when she has no choice but to attend a banquet with Lu Lingxiao, she sees him instinctively help her into the carriage, and sometimes remembers how kind he used to be.

Before long, as they spend time together, Yu Sui feels his behavior is just like Lu Lingxiao's three years ago, when they first met.

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Lu Lingxiao wakes up one morning to find himself in a world three years in the future.

After the Lu family falls into ruin and then rises again, he goes from being the carefree young master of the Lu family to the Minister of Personnel. Everyone praises his composure, measured conduct, and maturity.

And he's also... married.

Lu Lingxiao doesn't know how to explain his strange behavior, and doesn't dare face the fear in his wife's eyes, so he can only make a strained excuse and keep his distance.

But why does his heart hurt so much?

*

A few months later

At last, a familiar voice reaches Yu Sui's ears. She pauses, unsure whether she's afraid to turn around or can't bear to.

Lu Lingxiao sees tears in his wife's eyes. Her voice is terribly hoarse, and her gaze is full of the hurt of a long-awaited reunion.

"Why did it take you so long to come back...?"

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Reader's guide:

1. An alternate-history story with a mishmash of historical elements and lots of original details. Please don't nitpick.

2. The male lead didn't transmigrate. His brain's just broken.

3. Should be a sweet little slice-of-life story, depending on the response. It could be longer.

4. Please leave lots of comments.

5. The blurb has been screenshotted. Don't plagiarize the premise.

Theme: Love can overcome any hardship.