A Mistakenly Broken Jade Branch

- Now serializing! After Being Reborn, My Cold Husband Heard My Inner Thoughts. After hearing his wife's inner thoughts, the aloof, distant paragon of virtue is slowly driven mad. Blurb at the very bottom!

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Su Youyi only found out that her childhood sweetheart had a pregnant mistress after they had agreed to marry.

With no way to break off the engagement and all her private savings gone, Su Youyi was at her most helpless when she went to great lengths to marry her childhood sweetheart's older brother, Jiang Chixu.

She knew Jiang Chixu didn't like her.

He was a noble heir, handsome and immensely powerful, and everything he did set the standard in the capital. She was an orphan, adrift and living with the Jiang family. They were worlds apart.

When she was nine, she happily caught fireflies to show him, but he waved them away and coldly scolded her: "Go back."

None of that mattered. All she wanted was to keep her dowry safe and make her escape.

But after they married, her aloof older brother-in-law began acting completely out of character.

At night, he would hold her around the waist, kiss away her tears, and coax her: "Youyi, don't cry. Just this last time."

When she was being bullied, his tall figure would stand in front of her. "Youyi, let's go home."

When her persistent childhood sweetheart was caught bothering her by her husband, Jiang Chixu swept her into his arms and strode away. That night, he bit her hard as he said, "I coveted my younger brother's wife and stole this marriage. Now you know. Are you going to leave me?"

Su Youyi did leave, but not because of that.

She escaped from a pitch-dark secret chamber, shaking her head as if she could forget the many objects on the huge pearwood cabinet:

The pearl headband she'd worn, the kite she'd flown until she was bored of it with her childhood sweetheart, the handkerchief she'd used to wipe her tears, the broken strings of her pipa...

The aloof older brother who had treated her with dutiful respect for ten years might not be the noble and honorable man she'd imagined...

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Jiang Chixu was as elegant as a jade tree, pure and immaculate, yet he succumbed to desire for the young woman his family had taken in.

At first, he planned to secure the marriage and then take things slowly.

Later, he could only feel at ease by tearing the divorce papers to shreds and keeping her imprisoned by his side.

Finally, after searching for days, he found her in Gusu, boating on a lake and picking lotus flowers with a handsome young man for company...

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A little white rabbit of a heroine who bites

An older male lead who grabs and competes for her, then casts off all moral restraints and lets loose

The second male lead faces a long road to winning her back, but the broken relationship won't be mended

Both leads are each other's first, HE. Five-year age gap. All characters' romantic storylines begin after they are adults.

After Being Reborn, My Cold Husband Heard My Inner Thoughts

The paragon of virtue is slowly driven mad by his wife's inner thoughts, until he turns into a lovesick fool.

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Lin Shengsheng is the daughter of a newly prominent family at court. She is breathtakingly beautiful, and her suitors crowd her doorstep.

But after marrying the man she loves and following him around for three years, she receives divorce papers and dies alone and sick.

When she opens her eyes again, she's returned to three years earlier.

Her parents and brothers are all alive, and even her former suitors are still eager to win her over.

Unfortunately, by this point she is already married to Xie Cizhou.

Lin Shengsheng throws away the letters and jade pendant he returned to her, and refuses to consummate their marriage, even though they've been married for a long time.

"From now on, Xie Cizhou and I will each mind our own business."

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Marrying Lin Shengsheng had been a matter of necessity.

Xie Cizhou was an aloof, refined young master from a family of centuries-old prestige. His duties toward his infatuated, clingy wife were merely an obligation.

Until one day, he suddenly became able to hear his wife's inner thoughts...

On the day they were to consummate their marriage, Lin Shengsheng clutched the blanket in front of her.

[Xie Cizhou doesn't actually think he's good in bed, does he? Haha.]

Xie Cizhou swept out with a cold expression, then spent a long time deep in thought.

At a banquet hosted by another household, Lin Shengsheng's eyes sparkled.

[No matter how I look at them, Young Master Chen is the best.]

[He looks like he'd be strong!]

Xie Cizhou casually shifted his steps to block her view.

At the lantern festival, Xie Cizhou held Lin Shengsheng's hand as they sent a prayer lantern floating into the distance.

[May Brother Lingzhou return victorious and unharmed!]

Wen Lingzhou... was one of the many men who had pursued her before she married.

Xie Cizhou tightened his grip, but Lin Shengsheng had already pulled her hand away and run off, satisfied.

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Everyone in the capital knew that the Lin family's daughter was infatuated with Young Master Xie. She got her wish and married into the Xie family, only to be neglected.

A gambling house even set up a wager with a thousand taels as the prize, betting on whether the two would divorce.

The ever-diligent Young Master Xie went to the gambling house himself and wagered a thousand taels.

Everyone was delighted and hurried to ask, "Did you bet on divorce?"

But Xie Cizhou's expression was unreadable, his answer firm: "No divorce."

Everyone was dumbfounded. "?"

That night, Lin Shengsheng was disheveled, her hairpins askew, pushing him away.

[No more...]

Xie Cizhou said in a low voice, "No divorce."

[Then what about the thousand taels I bet? I want a divorce!]

Xie Cizhou grew even more ferocious. "I'll pay you back the thousand taels. I'll make it up to you for everything you don't want, too."

Both leads are each other's first, HE. The male lead is pure in body and heart.

A lively, clever, sunshine-loving heroine

A lovesick male lead

Theme: Opportunity waits for no one