Reborn, She Refuses to Marry and Takes It Easy, While the Duke Panics

In her previous life, Gu Qingyi rose from a village woman to the envied wife of a duke, enjoying years of glory and a lifetime of beauty. Yet she lived cautiously, always on edge. She thought that once her husband died, her son inherited the title, and she became the old madam, she could finally rest easy. But the child she had raised from infancy and cherished with all her heart turned out to be the son of a concubine. To secure his rightful claim to the duke’s title, her adopted son sent her to her death with a bowl of poison. Reborn, Gu Qingyi wants nothing more than a quiet, simple life, with no further ties to He Zhen. She only wants to find a husband with no parents or clan relatives above him, and no younger siblings or sisters-in-law below him, and live a peaceful, simple life. Yet in this life, He Zhen haunts her relentlessly, sabotaging her marriage prospects and using every means at his disposal to force her to marry him again. Gu Qingyi grits her teeth. What’s the harm in walking the same road as last time? At least now she knows exactly which people are monsters in disguise. This time, she’ll raise a child who won’t betray her, then lie flat and enjoy her twilight years. But the He Zhen of this life seems like a different man. He takes no concubines, keeps no bedchamber maids, stands up for her at every turn, thinks only of her, and keeps finding new ways to treat her well. Gu Qingyi: “...” Could this jerk have gotten a new soul?