The Phoenix Crosses the Spring Tide

[The second male lead gets the girl + both leads are inexperienced + marriage before love + healing] After three years of marriage, Shen Tangxi has devoted herself heart and soul to caring for her husband, Pei Huaiqing. But he looks down on her humble birth and remains cold toward her. After Pei Huaiqing recovers from his illness, he humiliates her time and again for another woman, even wanting to demote her to a mistress so he can marry a highborn commandery princess. Shen Tangxi's heart turns cold. She takes a divorce agreement and leaves him, taking with her the immense fortune she had secretly amassed. On the day they divorce, Pei Huaiqing says, “I actually do like you. Once you've come to your senses, you can come back and be my concubine.” He thinks Shen Tangxi will have no better options without him. But little does he know that his soft, alluring ex-wife has already caught the eye of Xiao Du, the most handsome man under Heaven and the battle-hardened Prince Jing'an. This man, whose power is so great that even the emperor fears him, plots at every turn for her sake, finally ensnaring Shen Tangxi in his web. On the day Xiao Du ascends the throne, everyone thinks Shen Tangxi is bound to be rejected all over again. Instead, Xiao Du not only raises her to the throne of Empress, he also personally cultivates allies for her at court and promises her a lifelong union with no one else. When Pei Huaiqing keeps insisting that he will wait for her to come back, Xiao Du has his entire family exiled and coldly gives him a single word in reply: “Get lost!” What makes him think he has any right to go near his wife? Once he's brought his wife back to the nest, she's his and his alone!