"I don't want to marry you again! Boohoo... If you were just a woman, that would be one thing, but now I have to drag my whole family along to die with you!"
Lu Shiyu knew that Chen Yingying had been reborn too, but the two of them were truly the unluckiest people around. Even their rebirth had come too late. She unfolded the imperial decree in her hands. "Yingying, look at this."
Chen Yingying cried even harder. Lu Shiyu was at a loss, too. She had already accepted the decree, so this marriage had to go ahead whether they liked it or not.
"Wife, marry me one more time? As the saying goes, when husband and wife work together, they can cut through metal. This time, we'll get ahead of things and plan carefully. Then we can both make it out alive!"
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In her previous life, she'd spent the first half of it living off her family's legacy and her capable older sister. Even after surrendering her military command, she had still brazenly coasted through life. But she enjoyed only a few years of that before the sky came crashing down.
Who could have guessed that her brother-in-law, a man overflowing with imperial authority, would die young and leave a decree appointing her regent, ordering her to support the crown prince until he took the throne?
He had named an heir, but the crown prince was still in swaddling clothes. As regent, she was bound to be killed sooner or later by those wolves with treacherous hearts.
But refusing the regency would mean defying the decree, and she'd be dead in no time.
Her sister and her orphaned child had been shoved into that lofty position as sitting targets. She had been about to run, but now she had to stay. One more sitting target.
She was killed all the same, and Chen Yingying's family, who had helped keep her identity a secret, were dragged down with her. Her sister and nephew's fates were easy to imagine, too.
This time... she would take back what belonged to her... but first, she had to get through this wedding before she could think about anything else.
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"Hey! Have you heard? The Marquis of Dingyuan and General Chen..."
"Really? I heard his wife met up with the new top scholar under the moonlight."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Come on, tell me everything!"
They chatted away, delighted, completely unaware that four of the people they were gossiping about sat at the next table, not far away.
Lu Shiyu and Chen Yingying exchanged glances. How could these people be so shameless?!
And yet... each saw a brightly colored hat on the other's head.
As for the other two... The one rumored to be in a same-sex relationship wore an unreadable expression, while the one from the moonlit tryst listened with great interest. A married woman? Excellent!
One-on-one / mutually devoted / happy ending
Blurb written on September 23, 2024.
Theme: May everyone have a bright future.
