A seemingly gentle, courteous, and refined scholar who is actually a scoundrel, thrill-seeking and selfish x a seemingly gentle, harmless, and delicate wife who is actually a seductive, scheming widow
Xue Rao has been a widow for years. Her mother-in-law falls ill and dies, draining her already meager savings. With no rice left to cook, a leaking roof overhead, and a steady stream of shameless men harassing her, she is close to giving up on this lonely life. That's when she sets her sights on the young scholar next door. He's handsome and well-read, refined and gentle as jade, nothing like the rough farmers in the village. So one night, as rain pours down, she knocks on the young scholar's door...
Ye Ling Jin has a secret: she has been reborn. In her previous life, unable to bear the loneliness, she pursued the village's youngest and most beautiful widow. After getting her pregnant, she abandoned her, then married into a wealthy family in town. Less than three years later, the wealthy family's daughter was reunited with her true love and threw Ye Ling Jin out with a letter of divorce. She slunk back to the village, only to learn that the beautiful widow had been drowned in a pond three years earlier on the elders' orders, accused of violating the rules of womanhood. Guilt took hold of her. One night, she sneaked out to the pond to mourn, but accidentally fell in and drowned...
Reborn, Ye Ling Jin has a change of heart and resolves to keep her distance from Xue Rao and let her live in peace. But she has been reborn too late. She has already pursued her, and now there's no shaking her off...
P.S.:
1. Neither protagonist is a good person in the conventional sense, and neither has much of a conscience. If that's not your thing, please don't read.
2. Both are sexually inexperienced; they get together first and fall in love later.
Theme: There's no cure for regret
