After the Stand-In Wife Was Reborn, the Marquis Started Fighting to Win Her Back

(A groveling ex who tries to win her back + a powerful man brought to his knees + a scheming femme fatale + intense push and pull + all male characters are sexually inexperienced + substitute romance + rivals competing for the heroine) In her previous life, Shen Qingci sold herself to Gu Mingsu, the eldest daughter of Imperial Physician Gu, to serve as her dowry maid, so she could provide for her elderly grandmother. They married into the Yongwei Marquis’s household. By day, she sat indoors working as an embroiderer. At night, she took Gu Mingsu’s place in bed with the noble and peerless Marquis of Yongwei. A year later, she gave birth to a child. She thought Gu Mingsu would honor their agreement, give her gold, and let her quietly leave the household. Instead, Gu Mingsu had her thrown into a sack weighted with stones and drowned in a pond. Her grandmother was also burned alive in a fire set by the Gu family. Reborn on the night she was supposed to take Gu Mingsu’s place in bed with the Marquis of Yongwei, Shen Qingci would no longer let herself be controlled and used like a puppet. She would drag the man Gu Mingsu worshipped off his pedestal, then destroy every hope and scheme she held dear. Ye Jingchuan had long suspected that the woman sharing his bed each night wasn’t Gu Mingsu. Gu Mingsu was decorous and conservative, with no spark to her. The woman at night was like a seductive fairy, leaving him unable to tear himself away. Then one day, he saw Gu Mingsu’s dowry embroiderer, her face veiled in white gauze, delicate and graceful. She seemed so familiar. He also realized that his political rivals in the capital had become his rivals in love. Every one of them had their eye on this captivating beauty!