After Being Widowed, I Was Reborn to Tame My Husband, and the Rugged Warlord Falls for Me Again

In her previous life, Yun Yao was born into a top-tier noble family. Her beauty and talent were unparalleled, and she had a fiance with whom she was deeply in love.

But when chaos engulfed the land and warlords vied for supremacy, her father offered her to the warlord He Licheng.

She despised He Licheng as a boorish man of humble origins, a dull brute with no sense of romance. She also dreaded his stamina in bed and his perverse tastes.

During their eight years of marriage, everyone else thought she and He Licheng were a loving couple. In private, they went from being strangers in the same bed to hating each other, like sworn enemies.

He Licheng died in the second year after ascending the throne.

When she saw him for the last time, she still spoke cruelly to him. "Go sooner rather than later, and don't delay me from taking charming male favorites."

Their five-year-old son inherited the throne, and she became the youngest and most beautiful Empress Dowager to rule from behind the curtain. She had no shortage of favored ministers, yet one day she suddenly found them all tiresome and began to miss He Licheng.

On the tenth anniversary of He Licheng's death, she burned ten beautiful concubines as offerings to him.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the second year of her marriage to He Licheng. She lazily slapped away the man who was holding her ankle and kissing it.

Yun Yao thought that although this man displeased her in every way, no other man could match him in any of those ways. She could just tame and train him.

But He Licheng, who had been madly obsessed with her body in her previous life, shook her off and said in a chilling voice, each word distinct: "Empress, as you wish. I shall depose you and grant you your freedom to be with your lovers."

That was when she realized He Licheng had been reborn too.

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After He Licheng died, his soul lingered in the imperial palace for years, watching helplessly as the Empress put countless horns on him.

When he received the ten beautiful concubines, he was so furious he came back to life, vowing to go his separate way from Yun Yao.

But for one reason or another, their bond only grew deeper.

In the end, he fell for this woman all over again, in both lifetimes.