After My Husband Faked His Death

Xie Guixue, the current imperial preceptor, was born into a noble family and wielded unmatched power.

Yet a man like him brought an opera performer back from Jinling and said he would marry her.

After the performer arrived in the capital,

the nobles saw her at the Imperial Preceptor's residence--

Money-grubbing, spoiled, and overbearing, with nothing going for her but her looks.

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Jinzhi came from a humble background as an opera performer. Her status was low, but her pretty face had made her spoiled and willful.

Only a few days after entering the Imperial Preceptor's residence, she was already throwing her weight around, seemingly managing to offend all of the Imperial Preceptor's friends--

The unpredictable Regent, the pampered Crown Prince, the rakish heir of a prominent family...

After meeting her,

one by one, they spoke ill of her to Xie Guixue.

At first, they only called her stupid and vulgar, asking how he could possibly have fallen for a woman like that.

Later, for some reason, they went too far. With mysterious love bites on their necks, they urged him:

"She's nowhere near good enough for you. Why don't you break off the engagement? We're only saying this for your own good, brother."

But Xie Guixue didn't know.

When these men looked at Jinzhi in private, their gazes were dark and sticky, their desire for her so intense it was alarming, as if they wanted to tear her apart and devour her.

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Xie Guixue was a gentle, upright man, as radiant and open as the moon. But no one knew that he had done something he felt guilty about--

He had brought an opera performer back from Jinling and arranged to marry her. But this engagement was only a pretense, forced on him by circumstances. He would fake his death and disappear before the actual wedding.

Feeling he had wronged Jinzhi, he still wanted to provide her with a way forward, so he asked his friends to look after her.

But his friends seemed to hate her.

Xie Guixue couldn't help worrying that, after he faked his death, Jinzhi wouldn't know what to do.

He never imagined that,

on the very first day of his fake death, he would hear these men pinning her against the coffin, wearing entirely different expressions as they coaxed her in low voices: "He's dead. Sweet Jinzhi, why don't you come home with me?"

Xie Guixue: .

Xie Guixue lay in his coffin, laughing in anger.

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At first, everyone looked down on a lowly opera performer. But later, brothers turned against one another and family members became enemies, all for her.

Synopsis written on 2025.02.13

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