A Young Couple Reborn

(One quarter of the main text has been substantially revised.)

Xue Shiyi and Lu Chengjun were the young couple everyone praised. For ten years, they had lived together in harmony, treating each other with respect and courtesy.

But their marriage had been forced upon them.

In the thirty-second year of Tianshun, the emperor was too ill to attend court, the Crown Prince had disappeared, and the Second Prince held all the power. Narrow-minded by nature, he resented the Xue family for staying neutral in the struggle between the princes.

Knowing perfectly well that Xue Shiyi was already engaged, he still ordered her to marry Lu Chengjun, the Lu family's legitimate son, whose official post had been stripped from him and whose parents were imprisoned.

Knowing she felt wronged, Lu Chengjun brought his bedding and slept on the floor on their wedding night.

The Lu family was kind and reasonable. Even after they became commoners, they never let Xue Shiyi, who had married down, suffer any indignity. She thought that was fine. A quiet, ordinary life would do.

Who could have guessed that the rest of her life would be anything but ordinary?

Unable to serve as an official, Lu Chengjun put aside his youthful ambitions and left the capital to go into business. Xue Shiyi never looked down on him. She endured the ridicule and mockery of others, and traveled with him through the bitter cold of the northern deserts, the spring rains of Jiangnan, and the pestilential mists of Lingnan.

When they returned to the capital, he said, "I won't let you be a merchant's wife forever."

And indeed, the Crown Prince, missing for so long, suddenly returned to court, while the Second Prince died in the Golden Hall.

Just as Lu Chengjun returned to official life and rose to the highest ranks, second only to The Outcast, Xue Shiyi was reborn.

In this new life, the first time she saw him, she knew he had not returned with her.

Just as in their previous life, Lu Chengjun was currently in love with his cousin, You Fangxue, who was living with his family. She was already engaged.

The Second Prince had yet to rise to power, and both the Xue and Lu families were safe and sound.

Xue Shiyi thought, so be it. Things were simply returning to their proper course.

For the sake of the ten years they had shared, she would give you a springtime of good fortune.

The male lead's version:

At an age when other young men gave hairpins, flowers, and birds to the girls they loved, I held a bamboo umbrella over you in the pouring rain. We walked side by side into the crowded, chaotic market to plan the business of our shop.

At first, brushing the snow from your brow had nothing to do with love. It was simply my duty.

On our wedding day, your face was deathly pale, your reluctance plain to see. I knew you felt wronged, but there was nothing I could do.

On the way to the bridal chamber, we passed a peach tree in the courtyard, its blossoms in full bloom. I did not pick a single branch for you.

That is what I regret.

No matter how many flowers bloom in the years that follow, they cannot make up for that one spring branch.

Before the Buddha, the abbot asked what kind of bond I wished to pray for with you. I did not dare hope for the bond of husband and wife. I only asked that we be bound by a bond of liberation.

In every life, I will save you. I will suffer every hardship in your place.

As long as you are happy and safe.

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Lu Chengjun, having regained his memories and watching his wife about to marry another man: "."

"Absolutely not."

"Only over my dead body."

1. The female lead is reborn first; the male lead is reborn later.

2. The male lead is reborn and immediately forgets his principles.

Content warnings:

The political intrigue is kindergarten-bus level.

After being reborn, the female lead has a powerful background and all her friends and family are still alive. The regrets from her past life have not happened yet, and she's doing very well. She's happy to have the chance to save the people she cares about. I asked tarot cards, so this is guaranteed to be accurate.

The male lead isn't in love with his cousin. There's a misunderstanding.

Next novel: "Junior Sister and Her Dog"

Coming soon

*Sweet-on-the-outside, evil-at-heart junior sister who does every kind of misdeed VS radiant, virtuous senior brother

For ten years, Yan Zheqing dreamed that he was someone's dog.

Later, he discovered that the person was his junior sister.

Junior sister: (ᕑᗢᓫ∗)˒

Blurb: Everyone in the Fourteen Continents envied Chu Ciyu's good fortune.

From birth, she was a good-for-nothing who couldn't cultivate, but she was incredibly lucky.

Her father was a revered Holy Son, renowned throughout the land for his virtue. Her cousins were heirs to the throne of Whale Continent, and all her childhood companions were rare prodigies from across the Fourteen Continents.

They all said she was the luckiest ordinary person in the Fourteen Continents. She had no talent for cultivation and only nine stars in her destiny, but she would enjoy a lifetime of wealth and ease.

Later, Chu Ciyu proved the Dao by killing her father and slaughtering her way through the royal palace of Whale Continent. She wiped the blood from her face and smiled.

"Go on."

*

Chu Ciyu was born with twelve divine bones, but not one of them was in her body.

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Chu Ciyu once had a dream that lasted ten years.

In the dream, she kept a loyal and ferocious guard dog. It was devoted to her, bit hard, and was affectionate only with her.

Chu Ciyu loved that dog.

Yan Zheqing had been dazzling from childhood, surging ahead on the path of cultivation.

At one month old, he drew a star into his body. After ten years of cultivation, he challenged the heavens, and the Heavenly Sword chose him as its master of its own accord. The Three Continents Immortal Academy placed great hopes in him. Of this generation's disciples, he was the sword cultivator most likely to become an immortal.

Yet throughout those ten glorious years, he spent every night in his dreams, miserably playing a woman's dog.

And not some fancy breed, either. Just a plain, scruffy yellow guard dog.

Yan Zheqing was fed up and decided to become a vicious dog!

He barked all day and bit hard, refusing to stop until someone bled. But the moment he saw that woman, he couldn't help wagging his tail and licking her palm.

Later, the dreamweaver died. Ciyu stopped dreaming and stopped keeping a dog.

Yan Zheqing never saw his master again.

Until this year, when a new student arrived at the Three Continents Immortal Academy.

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