Reborn Before Marriage [Period]

"A reserved, tough veteran vs. a graceful, forthright entrepreneur"

In her previous life, Lin Yuchen set out from the countryside, starting a paper mill and investing in construction projects. She seized the opportunities of the times and rose step by step to become the richest person in Ling Province, with a fortune of over a hundred million. Her only regret was that she had misjudged people and married the wrong man. Even when she was gravely ill, people still spitefully called her "Mrs. Chu!"

She died young, full of regret, in a ward at the Provincial Second Hospital.

On a cold spring night, she returned to her twenty-year-old self in the early 1980s.

At the time, she hadn't yet struggled to move to the city and get married, or made one concession after another for money.

The good news: Her family was poor, but both her parents were alive, and that shameless jerk hadn't come crawling to her door to ask her out.

The bad news: She was still penniless after being reborn, and had to build everything from scratch again!

When Lin Yuchen saw that the scumbag dared to show his face again, she coaxed some information out of him with a few questions, then kicked him into a ditch.

First, she would let him wash up. Then she could sharpen her knife and take revenge.

Without Lin Yuchen's help, the scumbag couldn't get anything right. His factory plans fell through, he failed to make off with the money, and his construction projects left him in debt...

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After serving in the military for more than ten years, Zhao Yougui returned home on leave. From a distance, he saw the adorable young woman smack someone over the head with a basin, and his heavy heart suddenly brightened.

In his memory, Lin Yuchen was an enterprising businesswoman who never forgot her roots after striking it rich; a lonely woman draped in jewelry, wandering the pedestrian overpass in a daze; a female warrior who, even while gravely ill, kept gathering evidence and turned the tables on her husband, sending him to prison.

In his last life, he had watched her life from the sidelines. This time, it seemed he had arrived in time to stop her from getting married.

So he might as well deal with her shameless "ex-husband" first!

Lin Yuchen had regrets, but never imagined she would find a chance to make up for them with Zhao Yougui.

When she used one scheme after another to win him over, the aloof big brother next door became an obedient husband, and their happiness began.

A love, friendship, and family life in which they both chose each other...

#I thought I was planting willows without meaning to, never knowing he was deliberately planting flowers. In this life, the flowers bloom in their time, and the moon shines on a reunited couple.#

Content warning: The scumbag will have to suffer through winning his wife back, and he won't die too quickly. The ending is satisfying! This is a fictional period novel!

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Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance; the main couple are each other's only partners.

2. Completed novels:

"Wielding a Sword with You, Toward the Azure Heavens," Parts One and Two: from mortal to creator deity. More cultivation than romance, one-on-one;

"Transmigrating as the Villainess and Binding a Fairy System": a fairy and a commander in space. Fated love, one-on-one;

"Serving the Heavenly Way (Not a Fully Derivative Quick Transmigration)": the heroine rescues various supporting female characters trapped in difficult situations. They live for themselves, one-on-one;

"Ascending Again to the Golden Sparrow Terrace": a fallen empress rises from crown princess to become the strongest ruler of a new nation. After passing the throne to the crown princess, she retires with the male lead, one-on-one.

"The Book's Villainess Is the Many-Favored One of the Hehuan Sect": the heroine transmigrates to another world, turns dark, and becomes a demon lord of the Hehuan Sect, entangled with the male lead's incarnations at different cultivation levels, one-on-one.

---"Ongoing novel, head straight to my author page!"---

"The Female Emperor's Notes on Taming Gu"

[Flirtatious, teasing female emperor x sinister, unhinged marquis]

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Chu Tianji disliked the crown princess because of a dance performance at the Nishang Pavilion years ago.

His master, Dongfang Chuan, had fooled him thoroughly, dressing him in a pomegranate-red dance skirt and a green silk flower, then making him practice graceful movements and sleeve flourishes like an opera performer.

The crown princess had watched the whole deception from a private room upstairs.

Late that night, as he left the pavilion, he ran into a girl who acted cute and clueless, and she tricked him too.

His secret weapon, a knockout drug, failed to put her under. Instead, he inexplicably slept through half the night.

Over the following years, one humiliating incident after another piled up, giving him a grudge he held for years.

After fleeing in disgrace to Southern Shu, Duke Chu once swore, "In this life, I'll only marry someone I love. I won't be a slave beneath the crown princess's skirts."

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Yun Zan was the female emperor's only child, born with the bones of a ruler and destined to be the supreme sovereign of the Great Qing dynasty. She was the woman all the noble young men would want to court one day.

One man had clearly been marked as hers, yet insisted on going against her wishes.

"You think saying you don't like me means you can refuse to marry me? Do you have my permission?" One sentence from the crown princess, and Duke Chu knelt outside the Heavenly Secrets Palace, begging for two nights.

The retired emperor came to watch the fun, or rather, to mediate: "Zan'er, you can't make someone love you. Let him go back to Southern Shu."

Furious, Yun Zan declared loudly, "Everyone beneath heaven is a subject of the emperor, and Chu Tianji is no exception. I'll break his wings and crush his bones, and make him kneel and beg me."

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At the Whirling Dance Pavilion, Young Master Tianji captivated the capital with a single dance. Yun Zan wrote an erotic poem, praising him on the surface while mocking him underneath. It spread throughout Dongdu, making him the capital's laughingstock once more.

Tianji put up with it.

The one thing he couldn't stand was Yun Zan receiving a love letter from a young lord of the Ministry of Personnel, then turning around to flirt with the second son of the Left Chancellor, smiling and laughing with such effortless charm.

She was haughty and arrogant by nature.

When told to govern diligently and care for the people, she preferred to take them out for cockfights and horse racing.

Later came the grand banquet to select an imperial consort.

Wearing a silver-blue robe from Southern Shu, elegant as an orchid branch and a jade tree, he entered the palace to compete for the position, his heart uneasy. A villain drugged him.

He was the King of Medicine. How could he have been poisoned?

He chose to let the poison take effect anyway, stumbling into her territory. "If Your Majesty won't help me, then I..."

"Then what?" Yun Zan asked, approaching with her hands behind her back.

Chu Tianji's eyes were bloodshot, his heart heavy with words he couldn't express. At last, he dropped to his knees before her. "I beg Your Majesty... have mercy on me."

In the end, the one who fell in love first was the loser. He gave way once, then again and again.

But how could he help it? In public she was spoiled and domineering, but in private she was gentle. She could play sweet and act clueless, and she was willing to risk her life to save him, despite being worth a fortune.

If she could do that, then he could bend his pride and become her husband.

#May you perch upon the phoenix tree, and together may we listen to songs of a flourishing age.#

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