After One Night with My Husband from a Past Life

1.

With the wedding date drawing near, Princess Yongjia, Xiao Chengyu, caught her betrothed fooling around with an opera performer. In a fit of rage, she ended their engagement in front of everyone.

Back at the princess's residence, three parts drunk and emboldened by anger, she narrowed her eyes, picked out the handsomest man there, and ordered her attendants to tie him up and bring him to her bed.

After one wild night, Xiao Chengyu awoke from a sweet dream and asked, "Who was that man last night?"

A palace attendant knelt and answered in a trembling voice, "I-It was the new riding slave at the residence. His name is Wei Zhuo."

His status was so low that Xiao Chengyu should have been furious. But when she remembered his powerful arms and solid chest...

Her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

2.

The news that Princess Yongjia had replaced her riding slave with a consort spread across Chang'an in an instant.

Xiao Chengyu sat with her pretty, charming face set in a stern expression as she laid down three rules for the riding slave: he must never overstep his place and must always defer to her; he could never take the initiative, and could only appear when she needed him...

"The third rule is the most important." She cleared her throat. "You must not fall for me. Do you understand?"

The tall, long-legged man knelt beside the bed and didn't answer for a long while. The little princess grew impatient and lightly kicked him with her leg. "Why aren't you answering me?"

Only then did he raise his hawk-like eyes to look at her. His voice was low and hoarse. "Understood, Your Highness."

3.

Wei Zhuo had known this spoiled little princess in his previous life.

The realm had descended into chaos, with smoke rising from battlefields everywhere. Her consort had betrayed her, her relatives had abandoned her, and all in all, she had suffered greatly.

He had become an outlaw, taken over a mountain, and made himself its bandit chief. When he took her in as she fled for her life, he had done it simply because he was attracted to her beauty.

But by the time he had become a regional warlord, and they had truly come to love each other and decided to be husband and wife, she had died young from a chronic illness.

The day she breathed her last in his arms, snow fell all around them.

With his ambitions of conquest and dominion within reach, he calmly took care of her funeral. Then he walked into her tomb and never came back out.

4.

After being reborn, Wei Zhuo planned his every move with care.

First, he had to expose the true nature of her wretched fiance. Then he had to protect her, making sure she never fell into the same circumstances as in her previous life...

Wait, before he could even plan his next move to get closer to her, how had he ended up tied to the bed?!!!

She looked down at him imperiously, her eyes untouched by hardship, brighter than the stars.

"Listen carefully. I chose you only as a temporary measure. From now on, we..."

Wei Zhuo had seen those bright, imperious eyes before.

As for those three rules...

Let's just say he wouldn't follow a single one of them :)

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They were each other's first love in both lives

The male lead is reborn and fights tooth and nail to win her

The female lead is a bit of an everyone-falls-for-her type, and will also regain her memories of her previous life

(A stubborn insistence on not writing a one-sided rebirth story.jpg)

Theme: Love should be honest