Alternative Title: 長媳[重生]
Author: 希昀
Status: Completed
Added: 2025-06-26
Updated: 2025-06-26
In her previous life, Xie Yunzhu adhered strictly to tradition, observing the "three obediences and four virtues," diligently serving her husband, and sincerely showing filial piety to her in-laws. One day, after meticulously organizing her mother-in-law's birthday banquet, she caught a cold, which accumulated into an illness that left her bedridden. The doctor declared she wouldn't live for more than half a year.
Her stepmother came to visit her and conspired with her in-laws, deciding to bring her stepsister from her maternal family. Ostensibly to care for her, the true intention was to have her stepsister marry Wang Shuhuai as his second wife after Xie Yunzhu's death. Her in-laws strongly supported it, Wang Shuhuai remained silent, offering no objections, and even her own children complained about her strictness, preferring their gentle and virtuous aunt. Everyone was happy, yet no one ever asked for her opinion.
Xie Yunzhu vomited a mouthful of blood and died.
Opening her eyes again, she was back to the time when her husband first entered officialdom. She saw her mother-in-law waiting for her service, her husband full of ambition expecting her to manage the inner household, her sister-in-law asking her to arrange her marriage, and her newborn children, not yet spoiled...
Xie Yunzhu sneered. Since she had a second chance at life, she would be a different kind of eldest daughter-in-law.
Wang Shuhuai was the eldest legitimate son cultivated by a century-old aristocratic family. He possessed a dignified demeanor and outstanding talent. He married Xie Yunzhu, whose family background, appearance, and temperament were irreproachable throughout the capital. He had rules ingrained in his bones, even being extremely restrained in intimate matters. Until one day, he discovered that his usually proper and reserved wife no longer bound her silk, and the smile on her eyebrows was as unrestrained as morning flowers in March, as she charmingly said to someone, "No matter, I'll just divorce."
Wang Shuhuai felt as if thorns were pricking his back and began to ponder where he had gone wrong.
(Everyone goes through the "crematorium" phase of chasing after her.)
(Driving the "high-and-mighty" man insane.)
Upcoming Novel 1, Sister Story: "Favored Wife of a Prestigious Family (Rebirth)" (Arranged marriage with love developing later, husband's chasing-wife crematorium)
Before Xu Yunxi married Xiao Daoyun, the Prince Regent, she didn't know he had a childhood sweetheart, a girl from a neighboring family. On their wedding night, the girl cried outside the high wall, and Xiao Daoyun went out. When Xu Yunxi gave birth, Xiao Daoyun didn't return to be with her during labor; instead, he went to Hezhe, a thousand miles away, to bring the neighboring girl back. When their child had a high fever, the widowed neighboring girl feigned drunkenness under the moonlight and begged Xiao Daoyun to make her a secondary concubine. The child died that night, and the neighboring girl also failed to achieve her goal. Until her death, Xu Yunxi never received much care from her husband.
Reborn back to her wedding night, after Xiao Daoyun left, Xu Yunxi directly bolted the door, letting him stay wherever he pleased. As for that neighboring girl who pretended to be a "green tea" (scheming woman), who couldn't do that? She would walk the "green tea's" path, leaving the "green tea" no path to take. In this life, she wants to gather chefs, enjoy food and leisure, and be the most splendid Prince Regent Consort.
Xiao Daoyun, as the current Prince Regent, was brilliant, decisive, and had been stationed at the border for years, only returning to court after the war subsided. To counterbalance Xiao Daoyun, the late emperor, before his death, betrothed a daughter of a fifth-rank official from an ordinary family to Xiao Daoyun. Despite his displeasure, Xiao Daoyun accepted. He spent more than half of each month in the imperial palace. His impression of his new wife was that she was gentle, docile, and not clingy. After their marriage was consummated, he saw her as delicate and soft-natured, diligently managing the kitchen in the mansion. So virtuous, even with her humble background, he could overlook it.
Until his birthday, when the banquet went awry, and he unintentionally discovered that she had been secretly giving him birth control concoctions... Xiao Daoyun's palms bled from clenching his fists.
(Female lead is outwardly gentle but inwardly strong, heartless.)
Upcoming Novel 2: "Trial Marriage" (Urban Romance, arranged marriage with love developing later)
The Tang family, the richest in Jiangcheng, intended to form a marriage alliance with the scholarly Li family. After strong encouragement from the elders, Tang Zhisong and Li Yinshu were forced into a trial marriage. The outwardly well-behaved Li Yinshu moved into the Tang family villa that very night, but Tang Zhisong was nowhere to be seen. A month later, Li Yinshu finally met her fiancé at a business meeting. The man was impeccably dressed, noble, and indifferent. The two reached a tacit understanding, exchanged contact information, and decided to appease both sets of elders.
Three months later, they hurried back from a business trip at the airport to attend a family dinner. Tang Zhisong's grandmother pointed to the intellectual and gentle Li Yinshu and asked, "Haven't you fallen for her yet?" The man's slender fingers casually brushed over his expensive wristwatch, his narrow phoenix eyes glancing at the sweet and soft beauty in the distance, "She's not my type, too well-behaved. I don't like it." Grandmother Tang was furious and forced Tang Zhisong to move into the villa that night.
Later, Tang Zhisong discovered that this Miss Li was outwardly well-behaved but inwardly ruthless, efficient, resolute, and calm. He pressed his tongue against his right jaw, pushed open the half-open door, and looked at the suite next door, thinking, "Such a huge contrast, interesting." A year later, the trial marriage ended. Li Yinshu moved out of the villa without hesitation, only sending two cold words via WeChat: "Thanks." Tang Zhisong grew anxious and immediately called her, only to find he was no longer her friend.
Content Tags: Sweet Romance, Feel-Good Story, Arranged Marriage with Love Developing Later, Chasing After Love, Crematorium
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A sentence summary: Driving the "high-and-mighty" man insane.
Concept: Perseverance leads to victory.