Stirring Up Springtime Longing

In her previous life, on the Golden Throne Hall, Xie Jingheng requested two imperial marriage decrees after earning military honors. One was for her, a promise; the other was for his cousin, an obligation.

Bai Ranqing was very obedient. To repay the marquis's wife for raising her for ten years and honor the friendship of the man she loved with all her heart, she married into the marquis's household and became the heir's wife.

"Qingqing, I only love you." With those words, Bai Ranqing married him willingly.

True affection changed in an instant. The cinnabar mole in his heart became a mosquito smear. For eighteen years, she had no children and lived a lonely, desolate life, while he had a house full of descendants and a happy family.

At thirty-three, Bai Ranqing died suddenly from overwork, and no one even claimed her body.

Heaven took pity on her, and Bai Ranqing was reborn eighteen years earlier, three days before her former husband, Xie Jingheng, requested an imperial marriage decree.

Refusing to marry the marquis's heir, she planned instead to marry the memorial tablet of the marquis's dissolute legitimate eldest son and become Xie Xuanzhou's widow. All she wanted was a life of wealth and freedom, and to die peacefully of old age.

Unfortunately, Madam Qin refused to allow it. She insisted Bai Ranqing become the heir's wife and, to extinguish her hopes, arranged another ghost marriage for Xie Xuanzhou.

As the legitimate eldest son and the marquis's matriarch battled wits, Bai Ranqing watched quietly from the sidelines.

Though she had never been good at scheming, she suddenly realized that she and the dissolute young master were in much the same situation. She quietly began to study, and before she knew it, she had mastered the art completely.

One day, now a free woman, Bai Ranqing saw her former husband's elder brother's breathtakingly beautiful face and felt her heart stir. At last, she had a chance to have children, both sons and daughters.

But how could this husband be so obedient?

When she accidentally learned the truth, Bai Ranqing finally understood. "Tsk, Brother, you've hidden your feelings very well."