Blurb:
In the thirteenth year of Yanping, Yan Xing, the treacherous minister who held the court in the palm of his hand, finally died.
The court was jubilant. Yan Xing was consumed by greed, ruthless in his methods, sinister and cruel. Even the emperor was a puppet in his hands. He had single-handedly persecuted hundreds of court officials and their families, leaving the execution ground soaked in blood for three days. The mere mention of his name struck fear into people's hearts.
Yan Xing took his own life before his wife's grave in the bitter winter snow. He had thought that after death he would fall into the Avici Hell and endure endless suffering, finally atoning for the guilt he felt toward his wife. But when he opened his eyes, he had returned to the year he was twenty-one, the first time he met Xie Rui, the woman who would become his wife.
At the time, Xie Rui was someone else's wife, and their loving devotion was the talk of the capital.
Watching the deeply enamored couple from a corner, Yan Xing smiled, though jealousy lurked in his eyes. He used every means at his disposal to drive them apart, then followed the path of his previous life and appeared before her earlier.
Zhaozhao, it's been so long.
Tips:
1. The male lead is reborn; the female lead is not. The male lead is a virgin, but the female lead is not. He falls in love with her at first sight and loves only her in both lifetimes. He fights and schemes to win her, and acts like a green tea manipulator.
2. In his previous life, the male lead was a genuinely evil, greedy minister who stopped at nothing to get what he wanted. He won't be a purely good person in this life either, and he'll be even better at hiding his true nature than before.
3. This is a fictional setting, not meant to be historically accurate. Official titles are modeled as closely as possible on those of the Tang dynasty.
Theme: Time cannot be turned back, so cherish the person by your side.
