The Hateful Couple Reborn

To get what she wanted, even a sheltered young lady who had always disdained scheming resorted to a few quiet tricks.

One unforeseen mishap, and there was no undoing what had happened.

Shen Yuling was too clever for her own good and had no choice but to marry someone else:

Xie Zhishen, heir to the Duke of Dingguo.

One was a highborn beauty whose looks were famed throughout Chang'an; the other, a dashing young man of the Five Mausoleums, clad in white with arrow sleeves. At least to outsiders, they were a match made in heaven, perfectly suited to each other.

But Shen Yuling knew that Xie Zhishen, like her, loved someone else. He had married her only because he had no choice.

He hated her to the core.

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By day, he was the picture of grace, playing the loving husband alongside her.

But at night, he shed his gentle mask and humiliated her without restraint.

In a secluded rock garden, with no one around, her clothes were disheveled while he stood immaculate, pressing her with a low, menacing voice. "Do you often meet here? I wonder if he would find out what I'm doing to you now."

"I hear the top scholar is about to marry a princess and rise to great heights. What a pity for Miss Shen. You schemed so carefully, only to end up making someone else's wedding clothes, marrying a boorish soldier like me."

Shen Yuling's face flushed red. Humiliated and furious, she slapped him hard.

He merely turned his head, touched the mark her fingers had left on his cheek, and sneered, becoming even more brazen.

Through countless nights of humiliation, body and soul, Shen Yuling regretted her choices.

She had been such a fool. She had meant to marry her beloved, but had married a wolf instead.

-

After a lifetime as a bitterly mismatched couple, it was as if she'd awoken from a dream. Shen Yuling was back before her marriage.

As luck would have it, her ill-fated former husband was waiting in the reception hall, looking every bit the gentleman, asking for her hand.

But after spending a lifetime with him, she knew his true nature. Everything he was doing now was deliberate, all to take revenge on her.

"I can marry anyone, but I won't marry him."

In front of everyone, Shen Yuling smiled at her mother, wearing the coy, bashful expression of a young lady. "I've heard a little about this Lord Xie. He's ruthless and frightening. Your daughter doesn't want to spend her life with someone like that."

Having died once, Shen Yuling had learned too much. If it would help her achieve her goal, she didn't mind setting aside some of her pride.

This time, she would never make the same mistake again.

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Back then, everyone envied Xie Zhishen for marrying such a fine wife. But he alone knew that she had never wanted to marry him.

Still, he had his own dignity. He had no interest in anything she didn't want.

Once married, they both showed their true colors and tormented each other.

In their previous life, they fought for a lifetime and both ended up ruined. Reborn, he decided to let go of this ill-fated marriage. He would take his own path, and she could pursue her bright future.

But at a spring banquet, he watched in a daze as his wife smiled at the top scholar with a radiant expression she'd never once shown him. His handsome face darkened, and the teacup in his hand shattered into pieces.

Absolutely not.

Not unless I'm dead.

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Theme: Happiness takes both people working together