Thirty Years After the Marquis Died, I Was Reborn!

Shen Miaohe, an eighty-year-old woman, is reborn ten days before the Shen family is wiped out. To her surprise, this life turns out entirely differently: the Shen family not only survives, but flourishes, and Shen Miaohe enjoys a comfortable, carefree life. The only thing troubling her is the childhood betrothal tying her to Chen Huaian, the eldest son of the Chen family.

In her previous life, the Shen family was destroyed. She happened to meet a benefactor and narrowly escaped death, taking on the identity of Miao Xiulan. Just as she was happily preparing to marry the man she loved, Chen Huaian abducted her and forced her to become his second wife.

She hated him for separating her from the man she loved and robbing her of the chance to become a top scholar's wife. She hated the Chen family's wealth, influence, and large household, with its endless troubles!

Most of all, she hated how people constantly mocked her for being lucky, saying that despite her humble origins, she had become the Chen family matriarch!

But the man died young, before he was even fifty. She outlived him by a full thirty years, enjoying three decades of peace and happiness. And when she became the family matriarch, her children and grandchildren vied to impress her. Those were truly blissful days!

Yet now that she's been reborn, the thought of that betrothal leaves her unable to eat or sleep in peace.

She used to hate his arrogance and domineering ways, and how he always wanted to control everything. She hated even more how, at certain moments, he had no restraint whatsoever.

And yet she can't help remembering his kindness, time and again: how he fiercely shielded her when bandits attacked, and how his solid chest burned like a fire against her in the winter wind and snow…

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