They Said I Was Barren? I Remarry a Heirless Chief Minister and Have Triplets

[Reborn + divorce by mutual consent + second male lead takes the spotlight + powerful man bows his head + cheating husband's regret + fleeing while pregnant]

A resilient, calculating little rose + an austere chief minister who denies his feelings but always does the right thing

Mei Zhixue was stripped naked, beheaded, and left to die.

Before she died, she heard the onlookers laugh scornfully:

“This adulterous woman couldn't bear a child in three years, and then went after her husband's second uncle. She deserved the executioner's blade.”

Her eyes were full of grievance as she died, unable to rest in peace.

Then, she was reborn.

She awoke half an hour before she had been caught in the act.

While the man beside her was still asleep, she slipped away. But the road ahead was still a dead end:

Her husband was shameless, her mother-in-law framed her, and her family threatened her. With nowhere else to turn, she went back and begged the man who stood high above everyone else for help:

The second master of the Gu family, Gu Jiuling.

He held power over the court and was cold and severe. When he served as the great general who pacified the west, the people of the borderlands called him the “Jade-Faced Asura.” His long blade had tasted countless drops of blood.

No beauty in the world could catch his eye. At twenty-seven, he had neither wife nor children.

When his nephew's wife remained childless after three years, he took it upon himself to discipline her, once scolding her as:

“Unchaste, and glib-tongued.”

As a series of murders shook the household, she knelt before him, humble in posture and sorrowful in voice. “Everyone in the household bullies me. Zhixue begs Second Uncle to protect her...”

He knew every word she spoke hid a lie, yet somehow she managed to unsettle his heart again and again.

Only after she divorced her husband and escaped did he learn, to his shock, that she was pregnant.

Later...

A salt merchant's legitimate son from Jiangnan proposed to her, a thousand miles away.

Gu Jiuling galloped eight hundred miles through the night to reach her.

He stormed into the wedding hall, lifted her red veil, and trapped her in a corner of the bed. His peach-blossom eyes were bloodshot with fierce intensity as they fixed on her bright, cunning gaze.

“Mei Zhixue, you want to marry someone else while carrying my child?”