Spring's Delicate Beauty

[Peering Recklessly at Spring Mountain] Multiple rebirths / uncle and nephew compete for the heroine. Now underway; the blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection.

[The full novel is complete. Extra chapters are being updated in the collection titled "Extra Chapters".]

--Novel Blurb--

Brothers vying for the heroine | Second male lead takes the crown | The scumbag's long road to regret

[This is a melodramatic story, so nobody is perfect. Everything is the author's fault. Please don't yell at the three main characters, I beg you.]

On the first night Shen Yushu arrived at Prince Gong's manor as his bride, the man tossed aside the weighing rod and swept out of the room. "Remember your place."

Shen Yushu spent the whole night alone in an empty room. When she got up the next day, she saw Prince Gong out walking with a beautiful young woman.

Only then did she realize that Prince Gong had long had a childhood sweetheart he loved. She was nothing but a joke her family had forced upon him.

The more Shen Yushu thought about it, the angrier she became. On the night she received the divorce papers, she got drunk and ran into a man.

He looked as bright and pristine as the moon, as unattainable as clouds and snow on a mountain.

With flushed cheeks, Shen Yushu sat beside him, half in revenge and half in triumph, holding up her wine cup. Her slender, pale fingers hooked around the broad jade belt at his waist, and she leaned against his shoulder with a soft laugh. "Brother, you're so handsome. Let me treat you to wine."

The man wrapped an arm around her waist, his expression dark.

The next morning, Shen Yushu ran back to the manor, her face as radiant as a spring blossom and her cheeks flushed...

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After the divorce.

Shen Yushu became pregnant. The once unattainable Prince Gong stood outside her room, eyes bloodshot and full of fury. "Whose bastard is it? I'll cut him to pieces."

As soon as he had spoken, the Crown Prince, renowned for his gentle, jade-like manner, stepped out of the room, looking thoroughly satisfied. He put an arm around Shen Yushu's shoulders and bent down with a laugh. "You want to kill whose child, Imperial Brother?"

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A few reading tips:

1. Before the heroine's divorce, the two leads have no mutual romantic feelings for each other.

2. The second male lead gets a long road to regret, then is ground to dust.

3. Both leads are each other's first and only. Enjoy!

[Peering Recklessly at Spring Mountain]

Blurb One:

Xu Wenting was born into a wealthy, noble family. He was capricious and irreverent.

As a child, he fell in love at first sight with the gentle, quiet eldest daughter of the Meng family. But later, she married someone else, and he gave up on her. Instead, he married the Meng family's youngest daughter, Meng Hui.

He all but dragged Meng Hui down with him out of malice, neglecting her for years and keeping concubines by the dozen.

On the night before New Year's Eve, Meng Hui asked him for an answer: would he marry her?

Xu Wenting loosened the arm he had around his mistress and gripped Meng Hui's chin, his voice cold. "Since your elder sister married in your place, what gives you the right to live without a care?

"Since you're so eager to marry me, then die with me, Meng Hui."

Meng Hui was beautiful and graceful, the loveliest lily in the capital.

She had been in love with her childhood friend Xu Wenting for years, turning down countless noble suitors for his sake.

Then, day by day, all her hopes were ground to dust in this cold, lifeless marriage, and she withered away along with them.

That New Year's Eve, six months later, Meng Hui died in misery in a secluded courtyard.

Her youthful, devoted love had been nothing but a dream of yellow millet.

Xu Wenting did not even touch the three-foot-long boards of Meng Hui's coffin.

His lily withered in early summer, and the capital gained a madman known as Second Master Xu.

Blurb Two:

Xu Wenting had never imagined that Meng Hui would leave him.

Fortunately, Heaven took pity on him and made him reborn. He swore that in this life, he would treat Meng Hui well.

After recovering his memories, Xu Wenting's first act was to go to the Meng family and ask for her hand, hoping to settle the wedding date at once. But no matter how he searched, he could not find Meng Hui.

It was a rainy day. Soaked and covered in mud, he finally managed to knock on the Meng family's door. But the person who opened it was not the Meng Hui he had been longing for. It was his own uncle, Xu Jibai, a Grand Secretary in the Imperial Secretariat.

Second Master Xu stumbled back in shock, his blood seeming to stop in his veins. "Uncle... why is it you?"

Xu Jibai raised his eyes indifferently, casually revealing several fresh red marks on his neck. His voice was cool and dismissive. "Have you no manners? Go home."

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Xu Jibai was born into a distinguished family and was exceptionally gifted. He passed the imperial examinations with top honors at all three levels, and at a young age was appointed to the Imperial Secretariat by imperial decree. His only regret was watching the woman he treasured in his heart marry his nephew and suffer terribly.

He could only accompany Meng Hui on her final journey with his vile, shameful feelings. In the dead of night, alone, he clutched Meng Hui's cold spirit tablet and wept until he retched and passed out.

Three years later, the youngest Grand Secretary in Great Yin took his own life at the age of twenty-seven.

His final letter to the emperor read: "I beg Your Majesty, in remembrance of my lifelong service as your trusted minister, to bury me among the mountains ten li from the Meng family's coffin."

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"If he can't learn to love her, then I will."

Theme: Strive to live.