Synopsis
Coming next: The Tycoon's Courtship Chronicle. Blurb below ↓
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[Upright, Rule-Following Heir Apparent * Reborn Black-Lotus Bent on Revenge]
**Romance:
On the day Liu Luoshu was reborn, she came face-to-face with Cheng Xiujin, the famous heir apparent.
By a twist of fate, he mistook her for a spy from an enemy state, and she nearly died beneath his soft sword. Fortunately, the Earl's son, Jiang Yuheng, came to her rescue in time.
A sensible person would learn from the experience and keep well away from the heir apparent in the future. But she repeatedly crossed his lines:
As a righteous and upright Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, Cheng Xiujin was forced by her to lie and cover up her crimes. He despised venomous, cruel women, yet she kept hurting people and even asked to borrow his knife. He warned his cousin Jiang Yuheng not to chase pretty faces, while she went out of her way to get close to him and successfully married into the Earl's household as his cousin's wife.
She knew Cheng Xiujin hated her from the bottom of his heart, but she didn't care what her new family's cousin thought of her. After all, she'd gone to great lengths to climb the ranks because she wanted revenge on her stepmother!
In her previous life, she had trusted the wrong people and been deceived by her hypocritical stepmother. Her face was disfigured, her innocence taken, and she was married off to an abusive ex-husband. Tortured until she was scarcely human, she died with hatred in her heart...
In this life, she would make her stepmother pay.
The poison had barely dripped into the teacup when Cheng Xiujin suddenly appeared, snatched the bottle from her, and threw it into the lotus pond behind him.
"I thought you were clever. Don't you know this stuff leaves evidence when it kills?"
"What are you getting at?"
"I have a way to get rid of her without getting your hands dirty."
"Then how should I thank you?"
"..."
The candlelight flickered. Only then did Liu Luoshu notice the unconcealed desire in his eyes.
"Divorce him and become my wife."
**Revenge:
Liu Luoshu was reborn!
In this new life, she would spare none of those who had hurt her!
Her scheming second older sister wanted to curry favor with the powerful and marry into a grand family. So Liu Luoshu deliberately dressed to outshine her, driving her to desperation until she seduced a marquis and became his secret mistress.
When she ran into her ex-husband again, she swallowed her disgust and played along. Under cover of a moonless night, she secretly led him into her second sister's room. After a night of passion, she let her stepmother do the work and kill the man!
Her personal maid had sided with her stepmother and conspired against her, so she schemed to get the maid into bed with her second sister's lover. The two women fought day after day, leaving the household in chaos.
Her stepmother pretended to be a virtuous wife and mother, so Liu Luoshu uncovered the truth about her affair and drove her from the family, confining her to a nunnery for the rest of her life...
With the wicked punished, she could finally live freely and without worry.
With a favorable wind at her back, this life would be one of flourishing prosperity!
* Strong female lead, no suffering for the heroine.
* The heroine and the second male lead enter a sham marriage.
* 1v1, both leads have only one partner.
---Coming next: The Tycoon's Courtship Chronicle---
Because a Taoist priest at the Xuantian Temple said their birth charts were a perfect match and she would bring good fortune, Lin Yuchu went from being the daughter of a low-ranking official to becoming the newly-wedded wife of Qiao Jingchu, the third son of Yangzhou's richest family, Master Qiao.
Everyone said she was marrying above her station. She thought so too.
Fortunately, after their wedding, Qiao Jingchu treated her with politeness and respect, so life wasn't too hard.
One day, she wandered into Qiao Jingchu's study and found it covered with portraits of a woman. The woman in them had delicate features and a lively expression. She was none other than Xu Qingyi, the only daughter of Master Xu from the western part of the city.
At last, Lin Yuchu understood why Qiao Jingchu had always made excuses to avoid touching her. He had already given his heart to someone else.
From then on, she accepted her place. In public, she and Qiao Jingchu played the perfect couple, devoted to each other. In private, they each slept on opposite sides of their three-meter-wide bed, leaving each other alone.
*
Qiao Jingchu loathed this arranged marriage, but he was a man of great self-restraint. He would never defy his parents or do anything so deeply improper.
He convinced himself that Lin Yuchu was simply a benefactor who had married him to bring good fortune to his grandmother. He treated her with respect and distance, never once crossing the line.
Then Lin Yuchu stumbled upon the secret in his study. He had assumed his neglected young wife would make a scene and let everyone know. Instead, she mentioned it casually and advised him to hide the portraits somewhere more discreet, lest anyone discover them.
Qiao Jingchu was at a loss for words. Only then did he realize that Lin Yuchu didn't care about him as a husband, either.
The third young master of the Qiao family, adored by women throughout the city, felt a strange ache in his heart for the first time.
As the New Year approached, an imperial edict arrived out of the blue, ordering the Qiao family to move to the capital. Dozens of their shops reopened there as well.
His grandmother doted on Lin Yuchu and entrusted her with a silver shop. By a twist of fate, Lin Yuchu met the Ninth Prince, Zhou Huai.
The young man was witty and charming, and always managed to make Lin Yuchu laugh. They went from sipping tea to drinking strong liquor, and from discussing business in a formal manner to sharing their ideals in life. They felt as if they had found each other too late.
After that, she kept coming home later and later, and Qiao Jingchu's expression grew increasingly gloomy.
Late at night, he heard his drunken young wife murmuring Zhou Huai's name. The cold and ethereal young gentleman felt jealousy churn in his heart, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
**Both leads have only one partner.
**Alternate world, no need to read too much into it.
Theme: Evil deeds bring their own punishment
