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

[Rebirth + divorce + the second male lead takes the lead + the powerful one bows his head + a scumbag's regret and redemption + running away while pregnant]

A resilient, scheming little wild plum blossom x an abstinent Chief Secretary who says one thing but means another

Mei Zhixue was stripped naked and beheaded.

Before she died, she heard the onlookers laugh at her punishment:

"That adulterous woman had no children in three years, and then went and seduced her husband's second uncle. She deserved to be beheaded."

Her eyes brimmed with grievance, and she died without closing them.

Then she was reborn.

She woke up half an hour before she was discovered.

Before the man beside her could wake, she slipped away, but the path ahead was still a dead end:

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

The second master of the Gu family, Gu Jiuling.

He held power over the court. Cold and stern, he was known along the border as the "Jade-Faced Asura" when he served as General Who Pacified the West, his long blade having drawn blood countless times.

No beauty in the world could catch his eye, and at twenty-seven, he was still unmarried and childless.

His nephew's wife had borne no children in three years, so he had stepped in to discipline her, once scolding her as:

A woman who would not keep to her place, all honeyed words and false smiles.

With one murder after another in the residence, she cowered before him, humble in posture and grief-stricken in voice. "Everyone in the residence bullies me. Zhixue begs Second Uncle to protect her..."

He knew that every word she spoke concealed a lie, yet time and again she unsettled his heart.

Only after she divorced and freed herself did he learn to his shock that she was pregnant.

Later

A legitimate son of a salt merchant in Jiangnan sought her hand, a thousand miles away.

Gu Jiuling rode eight hundred li through the night to reach her.

He burst into the wedding hall and lifted her red veil, trapping her in the corner of the bed. His peach-blossom eyes were stained a deep crimson, fixed on her shrewd, bright gaze.

"Mei Zhixue, carrying my child, you still want to marry someone else?"