Longing for Yaoyao (Twice Reborn)

[This blurb has been revised many times. The only official version is on Jinjiang. We are not responsible for pirated editions.]

A lovely beauty determined to divorce × a high-and-mighty man who loses his mind after chasing his wife

As poison burned through her insides, Shen Xiyun thought of the two things she regretted most in her life.

First, rescuing a handsome, injured man on her way home and secretly falling for him.

Second, when he lost his memory and mistook her for the woman he loved, she had planned to repay his kindness, but somehow blurted out, "Why don't I offer myself to you?"

They married in front of all their friends and family. She thought that at last she would have someone to depend on and a home to return to.

But after little more than ninety days together, Xie Chengye was found by the imperial family. She was taken to the capital and confined in a separate residence, forbidden to leave, all because he said, "A vulgar merchant's daughter could never be admitted to respectable society."

After three months of confinement, she did not receive an order freeing her. Instead, she received a poisoned cup of wine, sent by the Prince of Huai through an assassin.

As agonizing pain pierced her to the bone, she regretted everything.

When she opened her eyes again, Heaven had taken pity on her. She had returned to the second day after her wedding.

This time, she gazed at her handsome husband, who smiled at her with gentle warmth. Her heart was calm as still water. All she wanted was to set things right and part ways peacefully.

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The Prince of Huai, Xie Chengye, was dignified and self-possessed, as elegant as an orchid and graceful as a jade tree. He was the refined gentleman whom the noble young ladies of Yanjing all longed for.

The only blemish on his reputation was the rumor that, after being injured and stranded among commoners, he had married a lowborn merchant's daughter. Fortunately, their marriage was brief, and they soon divorced.

At the time, no one could have imagined that this pampered son of heaven would kneel on all 299 steps before Tanzhe Temple, bowing his head to the ground with every step, all to pray for one person's safety.

On the seventh day of the seventh month, during the Qiqiao Festival, he stood alone outside her residence, asking to marry her.

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At a palace banquet, a beauty with skin like ice and jade and bright, lovely eyes held a round fan as she chatted and laughed with a general who had gone out of his way to curry favor with her. Her radiant smile stole the hearts of everyone around her, yet she never once glanced at the man seated on the high dais.

That night, clouds veiled the sky and only a few stars shone.

The man who had sat on the dais in splendid robes that day, resplendent and commanding, now knelt at her feet, his jade belt half undone.

Head bowed, he offered her the most careful, delicate touches, earning a soft moan from her as though it were a reward.

He gazed at the red marks on her porcelain-white waist and slowly pressed his lips to them. His lashes trembled, and beneath his shattered gaze lay an obsessive resolve to claim her.

He pleaded, "Yaoyao, don't leave me."

#At first, he thought this marriage was just a game. But when he was finally lost in his role, he realized the girl had already left the stage.

1. One-on-one romance, both are each other's first and only, happy ending, alternate setting.

2. Both leads are reborn. The heroine regains her memories of her past life first, and the hero regains his later. He has to win her back. There are hidden truths and misunderstandings from their past life, and the heroine is the only woman he has ever loved! The hero did not kill the heroine, either!

The heroine's death is a separate chain of events. Her killer wanted to kill her for reasons unrelated to the hero. That is the essential premise that makes a happy ending possible.

Theme: Step down from the high dais.