Help! My Frail Husband Is Actually a Tyrannical Regent

[Feel-good romance + marriage before love + powerful man humbling himself + second male lead’s redemption pursuit] Under the laws of Great Zhou, a woman must be betrothed within six months of coming of age and married within a year. Those who defy the decree will have a husband assigned to them by the court. Reborn, Luo Youning defies the law and firmly breaks off the fine match she had once been so proud of. The black-hearted man flies into a rage and curses her, saying the court will assign her to a short, fat, lame man in his forties from a neighboring village. Luo Youning sneers, kicks her ex-fiancé away, then turns her attention to Liang Erniu, who is bedridden with illness. The court only says women must marry by a certain age. It never says they have to marry again after their husbands die. Isn’t being a widow far more relaxing than tending to a man? But just as Luo Youning eagerly awaits becoming a widow, her sickly husband, who died young in her previous life, grows healthier and more vigorous by the day this time around, showing signs of becoming strong and lively. No one knows that Lu Jingchu, the tyrannical regent feared by all, has already been killed three times by the so-called “male lead.” With each death, his bloodlust surges, and his cruelty deepens. Lu Jingchu’s heart has long been as cold and hard as stone. After all, they are all just characters on a page. What difference does it make whether they die sooner or later? Until Luo Youning suddenly appears, carries him down the mountain, and forces him into a marriage as her live-in husband. At last, his gaze softens a little. Could this cannon-fodder character have awakened, too?