Abandoning the Phoenix Pair

The new novel, After Our Divorce, I Was Offered to My Ex-Husband, is now out

(Chasing the wife to the crematorium; the aloof, untouchable beauty is driven mad)

--- Shen Yanzhi, I don't want you anymore

At sixteen, Meng Shu brought her gravely ill mother to the capital for treatment. With no other choice, she turned to the Shen family, who had once been close to her grandfather. She never expected this to bring an old marriage agreement between the two families to light.

The Shen family valued their promises and wanted to fulfill the elders' wishes, so they planned for Shen Tuo, the illegitimate son of the Shen family's second branch, to marry Meng Shu.

But after an accident, Meng Shu was left with a ruined reputation and married Shen Chou, the legitimate second son of the Shen family's main branch, who had just earned top honors in the imperial examination.

Her mother-in-law despised her, society looked down on her, and her husband was cold.

Every day of married life was torment for Meng Shu.

In the third year of her marriage to Shen Chou, a fire broke out in the southern courtyard.

Meng Shu returned to the night she had been set up and lost her virginity to Shen Chou.

*

Shen Chou opened his eyes and found himself back three years earlier.

He watched a figure hurry out of his bedroom.

He knew it was his wife, Meng Shu.

In his previous life, she died in a fire.

This time, he had already decided to marry her properly, with all the traditional rites and ceremonies.

But before he could send a matchmaker, Meng Shu went to Shouchang Hall to visit his grandmother.

He sat in the main hall, thinking that since he and Meng Shu had already consummated their marriage in this life, she must have come to reject her engagement to Shen Tuo.

If she would only speak, he could find a way to ask for her hand.

Meng Shu did indeed take out the marriage contract and kneel before his grandmother, her gaze resolute.

"I know I am of low status and unworthy of joining the Shen family. I ask you, Madam, to cancel the marriage agreement between our families. May we each find peace from now on."

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one pairing, both leads' first and only.

2. Old-school melodrama warning!!!! Don't read if that's not your thing.

3. The medicinal prescriptions in the story are entirely made up. Please don't use them as a reference.

Coming Soon: After Our Divorce, I Was Offered to My Ex-Husband

After five years away at war, Song Siyan only remembered he had a wife he'd met just once when he returned home victorious.

The war had been urgent, and his family had hurriedly chosen a woman to marry him so he would have an heir. Song Siyan couldn't remember what she looked like. He vaguely recalled that the fifteen-year-old girl was thin and frail, young and timid, and had cried bitterly beneath him on their wedding night.

Not long afterward, a letter from the capital arrived, saying that Shen had asked to be released from the marriage.

Song Siyan understood that his mother had looked down on Shen for her humble background. Since she'd waited for him for five years, he decided to give her some compensation when he returned to the capital, and let them part on good terms.

On the way, they passed through Lingzhou. A sudden downpour forced the army to stop there, and the prefect of Lingzhou presented them with a voluptuous beauty.

*

After receiving the three hundred taels her mother-in-law gave her, Shen Jia left the Song family, which had tormented her for five years, in high spirits. She headed south to live with her aunt, but bandits waylaid her, and she was passed from hand to hand until she was offered to the newly ennobled Marquis of Yongding.

Drugged, Shen Jia blushed like a sunset and broke out in a fine sweat. Looking at the handsome, dignified man before her, she hesitated again and again, then reached out to her former husband for help.

Shen Jia knew Song Siyan hadn't recognized her. Afterward, she claimed to be a widow who had been abducted and begged him to let her go home.

At first, Song Siyan agreed.

But after tasting her again and again, he changed his mind...

*

Unwilling to return to the Song household, a den of wolves, Shen Jia fled one night as the capital drew nearer.

But she hadn't gone even a mile before Song Siyan and his men blocked her way.

"You're carrying my child, madam. Where do you think you're going?"

Shen Jia trembled as her identity was exposed.

"My lord, we're divorced."

The man's gaze darkened.

"I never agreed to it!"

Coming Soon: Parting from You

Chasing the wife to the crematorium / Untouchable beauty brought low by love / The bastard turns rabid

*

Everyone in Qingshan Village envied Li Jingniang for finding herself such a handsome husband. He worked hard and was tender and attentive to her and their child.

But in the third year of their marriage, her husband regained his memories. He turned out to be the pampered heir of the Anyang Marquis's residence in the capital, and Li Jingniang became the heir's wife overnight.

People in the capital said Li Jingniang was lucky: an illiterate country girl who had soared from the branches to become a phoenix.

Only Li Jingniang knew how miserable every day in the marquis's residence was.

Her mother-in-law thought her uncouth and feared she'd teach the child bad habits, so she took her daughter away. Li Jingniang begged her husband to speak to his mother, but the man who had once been so gentle with her had become someone she didn't recognize after returning to the capital. Frowning, he told her to stop making a fuss.

Rumors also spread throughout the residence that she was about to be divorced.

Heartbroken, Li Jingniang decided to leave the marquis's residence and return to her village that night. Startled, she fell from the wall.

*

Cheng Zhaoheng had been troubled lately. His wife had fallen from a wall while trying to sneak out at night, and after being unconscious for a day and a night, she had lost four years of memories and no longer recognized him.

Not only that, after waking up, she was back to being the blunt, outspoken, carefree girl she'd been at fifteen.

She defied her mother-in-law, who punished her, and lashed out at her sisters-in-law.

She even took the children of the household up trees to catch birds and into the water to catch fish,

completely throwing the household's rules and etiquette into disarray.

She was also hostile and wary toward him, her husband, repeatedly sending him to the front courtyard and refusing to share his room.

Cheng Zhaoheng had no choice but to comfort himself that once Li Jingniang regained her memories, everything would return to normal.

Even if she didn't, she would surely gradually come to admire him like she had three years ago, devote herself to him, and rein in her temperament for his sake.

He believed this without a doubt, until one day he saw his wife, who avoided him like the plague, looking at a young, muscular charcoal seller with admiration in her eyes.

"I don't see what's so great about that heir. He's always scowling, like a block of ice. If I divorced him, I'd choose a warm, hardworking man like Big Brother Xie and marry again."

*

After catching his wife when she tried to escape for the second time after regaining her memories, Cheng Zhaoheng locked her in their bedroom. Every night, as she moaned in a daze, he forced her to look at him and hoarsely repeated, his eyes bloodshot:

"Jingniang, I'm your husband. I'm the husband you love most..."

#ASecondChance,ButYouAreNoLongerMyPerfectMatch

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