Three Years After Our Tragic Parting, the Brooding Powerful Official Kneels and Begs Me to Come Back

[Widowed, world-weary male lead who flies off the handle at any moment x female lead who knows when to let go and quickly finds someone new]

[Chaste Male Lead + The Long Road to Winning His Wife Back + Rivalry Among Men + Male Lead Gets Put Through the Wringer]

Born into a family of military commanders, Jiang Lingyin grew up carefree and fearless, with a wonderful marriage to a man who loved her as much as she loved him.

Qi Yanchen adored her.

Even after she fell from the lofty position of the general's daughter to become the daughter of a condemned official, he defied his elders and insisted on marrying her as his proper wife.

Everyone in the capital praised him as a man of deep devotion, the most besotted lover of his age.

Jiang Lingyin, too, firmly believed that love could overcome anything, and that they would grow old together.

Until the fifth year of their marriage, deep in the woods, she stumbled upon him meeting secretly with a princess.

She watched them whispering intimately and pledge their lives to each other, and only then realized that the love and loyalty she thought they shared had existed only in her imagination.

In truth, he had long since found someone new, and was even willing to have her killed to make room for the princess.

As she lay dying, Jiang Lingyin watched the man who had lost everything, once so composed and now utterly panicked, and sighed in admiration.

So that's how you act, she thought.

When she opened her eyes again, it was three years later.

He had risen through the ranks and become the most powerful minister at court.

And she had become the eldest daughter recently found by the Censorate's household.

In that case, this time it was her turn to put on an act.

At first, she heard him say to someone else, "She's old now. Your Highness, you're in the prime of your youth. Why compare yourself to her?"

Later, he heard her say, "He's that old, and I'm not blind. Why would I choose him over you?"