The Reborn Concubine: Turning the Cold-Faced Powerful Official Into a Husband Who Dotes on Me

Few in Chang’an knew that eight years ago, the dignified Gu Pushe had taken a mistress. She came from Jiangnan, with a gentle manner and a mild disposition. He had defied his elders to marry her. Who could have known that she would take her own life, leaving the lord with a lingering ailment? When the Empress Dowager saw how pretty and levelheaded Third Miss Lu was, she spared no effort to bring the two together, only to hear him say, “Third Miss Lu, neither her temperament nor her looks comes close to matching my former mistress…” The Empress Dowager lost heart and washed her hands of the matter. But later, that very man came begging her for help, his words earnest: “I regret refusing Your Majesty’s kind intentions that day. Is there any way to persuade Third Miss to lower herself and marry me?”