I Am the Powerful Minister's Lost White Moonlight Wife

[Blunt, sunny sweetheart × aloof high-born beauty turned hopeless romantic | 1v1, both leads have no prior partners, sweet romance]

Zhu Qingmei once loved Cui Heng, but he didn’t return her feelings. Later, when the Zhu family ran into trouble, she had no choice but to fake her death and go into hiding.

When she saw Cui Heng again, he had become a powerful and renowned minister. She heard he had married, but his wife had died young. He had remained faithful to her for years, refusing the emperor’s attempts to arrange another marriage. He was devoted to her to the very end.

Zhu Qingmei felt a pang of sadness. Times had changed. The man she once couldn’t warm up had turned out to be so devoted to someone else.

She wanted to know what kind of woman Cui Heng had married.

But why did the portrait of his late wife look so much like her?

By a twist of fate, Zhu Qingmei was mistaken for a substitute and sent to Cui Heng.

Then she discovered that Cui Heng’s beloved late wife really was her.

And Cui Heng seemed like a completely different person. The man who had once been so distant now thought of nothing but her.

He praised her as if she were the best person under heaven, making Zhu Qingmei herself feel embarrassed.

“Surely she wasn’t that wonderful. Maybe you’ve just been apart for too long.”

After all, she was standing right in front of him, and he hadn’t even recognized her.

Cui Heng retorted coolly, “She is the best person in the world.”

How devoted.

Zhu Qingmei decided to tell him the truth. “Actually, I’m your late wife.”

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When Cui Heng was young, he didn’t understand his own heart. Only after losing Zhu Qingmei did he realize he loved her.

He thought he would spend the rest of his life missing her and regretting what he’d done. But Heaven took pity on him and truly brought his Meimei back.

This time, he wouldn’t let her slip away.

The late wife of the famously cold-faced minister had supposedly come back from the dead.

From then on, Chief Secretary Cui seemed like a different person.

He couldn’t go three sentences without mentioning “my wife,” “my darling,” or “my better half” to anyone he spoke to...

After they got back together, Cui Heng went from an iceberg to a clingy husband.

He wanted to be with her every moment of the day, and would have happily tied her to his belt.

Whenever Zhu Qingmei even glanced at another man, Cui Heng would suspect she no longer liked the man he had become.

Zhu Qingmei sighed. “Being a widower really does change a man. But could you please stop ruining my reputation? Everyone thinks I’m a shrew now.”

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"Marrying My Former Fiancé’s Brother"

Shi Yu grew up in the marquis’s household, and by the age of seventeen, her life had turned upside down overnight. It turned out she was a fake heiress who had been switched at birth.

According to the usual tropes in stories and plays, a fake heiress could never beat the real one. She’d be thrown out of the house and end up in a terrible situation.

Shi Yu was a pampered girl who couldn’t bear the slightest hardship.

Fortunately, she was already engaged to a man from a prestigious family who was her social equal: the second young master of the Duke of Xinguo’s household.

Shi Yu thought she should hurry up and get married. Then she could become a noblewoman and live a comfortable life.

But once her fiancé learned she was a fake heiress, he broke off the engagement and started fawning over the real heiress instead.

Furious, Shi Yu decided to set her sights on her former fiancé’s elder brother, Lu Mingyi, heir to the Duke of Xinguo.

Lu Mingyi was a few years older than them and had grown up with them, but he was so cold that everyone was a little afraid of him.

Shi Yu worked up the nerve to approach him. “Dear Mingyi-ge, you know I’m delicate and can’t handle hardship. Will you marry me? Don’t worry. After we’re married, you can take as many concubines and have as many illegitimate sons as you like. Just promise I can keep living comfortably, with people to wait on me. You can even register them all under my name. You could have enough kids to make a whole soccer team.”

Lu Mingyi finally spoke. “I won’t take concubines.”

Shi Yu realized she’d said the wrong thing. Lu Mingyi had never been interested in romance between men and women. He devoted himself entirely to his official career.

Shi Yu said, “Oh, well, you can do whatever you want. I won’t complain.”

Lu Mingyi nodded. “I can marry you, but we’ll have to put a few things in writing.”

Shi Yu was overjoyed. She assumed the contract would just tell her not to interfere in his life, and immediately pressed her thumbprint onto it.

Half a year into their marriage, Shi Yu couldn’t take it anymore and realized she’d made a huge mistake.

Where was the cold, abstinent man she’d been promised?

Lu Mingyi coaxed her softly. “Yu Yu, you did sign a contract with me.”

Shi Yu frowned, trying to remember what the contract said.

The next day, she dug the blasted contract out: a good-morning kiss and a good-night kiss every day, marital duties to be fulfilled every night, no divorce unless one of them died...

Everyone thought Shi Yu and Lu Mingyi were a terrible match. When they heard the two had married, no one approved, and they even bet on how soon the couple would get divorced.

But after the wedding, the heir to the Lu family spoiled Shi Yu until she was even more pampered than before.

○ Beautiful, pampered sweetheart × cool, abstinent, scheming heir | 1v1, both leads have no prior partners, sweet and doting romance

Theme: Treasure the present and don’t leave yourself with regrets.