My Late Husband Wants to Rekindle Our Romance

Next book: The Yu family plans to marry Yu Rong off to the comatose son of the wealthy Yan family.

What century is this? Arranged marriages are still a thing?

Yu Rong decided to take matters into his own hands and married a terminally ill man he picked up, in name only.

He planned to care for the man until he passed away, then regain his freedom.

But before long, the man died in a maritime disaster, leaving no body behind.

At the funeral, Yu Rong wore mourning clothes and wept silently, his grief so profound it moved everyone who saw him.

Standing before the tombstone, he swore, "I will never marry again in this life. I only hope to reunite with my late husband in our next life."

Under the guise of being devoted to his late husband, and with the excuse of reminiscing about their love, Yu Rong traveled the world to soothe his sorrows and clear his mind.

Though things didn't quite go as planned, the result was the same. No one could force him into an arranged marriage. Yu Rong sighed: Being widowed is great.

*

Two years later, the wealthy Yan family announced that their heir, Yan Sixu, who had been in a coma for a long time due to illness, had recovered.

Yu Rong inexplicably received an invitation to a Yan family gala.

Beneath the dazzling lights, the handsome and peerless head of the Yan family had the face of his late husband...

Surrounded by handsome men and beautiful women, Yu Rong tried to make a run for it, only to be stopped when he turned around.

"Hu... husband? Did you rise from the dead?"

"Rongrong, I heard you wanted to rekindle our old flame, so I borrowed a corpse to come back and see you." Yan Sixu smiled, his gaze dark as he watched Yu Rong and the beauties around him. He asked, word by word, "Are these your new lovers?"

Yu Rong gave an awkward laugh. "Husband, I'm thinking of you through them! Don't you think they all resemble you in some way?"

How touching.

"Now that I'm back, these substitutes can get lost."

*

Yan Xu survived the maritime disaster and assumed a new identity after recovering.

He went looking for the lover who had rekindled his will to live, but every time, he missed him.

He heard that Yu Rong had appeared all over the world, commemorating his late husband: They met in a museum, fell in love at university, pledged themselves to each other in the Arctic Circle, and got engaged at ancient ruins.

Yan Xu was so angry he laughed. How come he didn't know he had such a romantic love story?

After catching Yu Rong in a bar, supposedly "drinking to drown his sorrows over his late husband," Yan Xu looked at the snacks and games scattered across the table and gently stroked Yu Rong's fair, delicate neck. "Rongrong, does our love story include a night of dancing at a bar?"

Yu Rong answered cautiously, "Um, it didn't before... Husband, how about we add that part now?"

Theme: Freedom in marriage, freedom of person