Reborn Before Our Shotgun Wedding

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Cheng Fuzhen is gentle, virtuous, and refined. She is the foremost of the seventy-two noblewomen in the capital, and the world envies her heaven-blessed marriage to the chief minister.

Yet Fuzhen often thinks that if she could start over, she would never marry her brother-in-law.

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On the eve of her elder sister's wedding, Fuzhen accidentally becomes bound by a love gu with Shen Youxun. By the time anyone discovers it, it is already too late.

Her first mother drives Fuzhen out of the family register, and her birth mother falls ill with sorrow. Her mother-in-law discovers that her daughter-in-law has been switched and treats Fuzhen, who entered the family pregnant, with endless cruelty.

With no one to rely on, Fuzhen dares not complain. She honors her in-laws, supports her husband, raises their children, and keeps the Shen household running smoothly. As time passes, Shen Youxun, who had mistakenly believed Fuzhen had used a love gu on him, gradually lets go of his resentment. For the sake of their adorable son and daughter, he grants Fuzhen a measure of respect, though not a deep one.

Twenty years later, as her eldest son welcomes his bride, Fuzhen slips while serving tea to her daughter-in-law and unexpectedly finds herself reborn on the eve of her own wedding.

The day before, her elder sister had begged Shen Youxun to marry her as his secondary wife. The memory is vivid, and after living through two lifetimes, Fuzhen clearly remembers that Shen Youxun agreed at first.

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When Shen Youxun receives Cheng Fuzhen's letter breaking off their engagement, his expression is impossible to read.

Born into a distinguished family, he is a man of impeccable character and unmatched virtue. At twenty, he became the youngest chief minister in history, and his future seemed boundless.

The only mistake he ever made was accidentally sleeping with his fiancée's younger sister and marrying her because she was carrying his child.

Throughout their twenty years of marriage, he and Fuzhen treated each other with mutual respect, and he did his best to accommodate her wishes. For instance, he liked wearing loose, moon-white robes, but his wife said he looked more imposing in black, so he never wore white again.

After making love, he also liked to rest his head on Fuzhen's lap while she used a dark blue pencil to draw a tiny mole on the side of his nose.

That was until the day Shen Youxun accidentally discovered the portrait hidden in his wife's book of poetry. From the hair crown to the black clothes and the mole that would not wash off, the person in the portrait looked almost exactly like him.

But the man in the portrait was not him. He was his children's in-law's father.

Reborn on the night before their wedding, Shen Youxun hears that Fuzhen has returned her wedding clothes to Cheng Lingyuan and accepted the proposal of her future children's in-law's father.

Clutching Fuzhen's congratulatory letter, which wishes him and Cheng Lingyuan a happy marriage lasting a hundred years, Shen Youxun is so angry he laughs.

Marry again while carrying his child? Not a chance.

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Cheng Lingyuan is the most pampered legitimate daughter in her family, proud and arrogant, and she has never taken Cheng Fuzhen seriously.

In her previous life, when she heard Shen Youxun intended to break off their engagement, she hastily planted a love gu, never expecting her younger half-sister to benefit from it.

After being reborn, Cheng Lingyuan is delighted when Fuzhen takes the initiative to break off the engagement. Instead, she gets thrown into prison by Shen Youxun, who changes all the betrothal documents and rites to bear Fuzhen's name.

As her prison cart passes the Shen residence, Cheng Lingyuan sees servants hanging lanterns and decorations everywhere. The man who should have been her husband is carefully supporting Fuzhen's belly and quietly asking whether his wife is pleased.

Even though the love gu did not take hold of her when she started over, Cheng Lingyuan still pays the price for it.

#A married couple in middle age are both reborn in their youth and fall in love all over again

Substitute bride, marriage first and love later, marriage after pregnancy, reborn to raise a child and win back a wife, refreshing household intrigue, and all sorts of men facing their comeuppance.

Theme: Though the east has passed, it is not too late to enjoy the west