Short Story
Call It Off Before It’s Too Late
I stayed beside Xie Chen from the days when he had nothing until he became a wealthy man, only to discover his affair seven days before our wedding.
He expected me to forgive him, protect his company, and leave our marriage with nothing, but I had built his success with my own hands and knew exactly how to take my life back.
While his first love fought to become Mrs. Xie, I divorced him, sold my shares at a premium, and founded a company of my own.
By the time their so-called true love collapsed under greed, debt, and betrayal, I had already learned that the best time to call off a bad marriage is the moment you see it clearly.
I Saw Qingwu
When my elder sister was preparing to marry Marquis Ding’an,
she caught the eye of the Crown Prince.
Our entire family was overjoyed.
To give the marquis’s household an explanation, they pushed me out in her place on the day of the wedding.
After we were married, Marquis Ding’an despised me.
Again and again, he mocked me to my face:
“Crude and vulgar. You don’t compare to your sister in the slightest.”
“You can’t even read an account book. Astonishingly stupid.”
I felt wronged too. I smashed my rouge and powder at him and cursed,
“My sister is the Crown Princess now. If you’re so capable, go steal her back, you coward!”
And so we spent our entire lives at each other’s throats.
When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to when I was sixteen and not yet married.
My elder sister looked at me with smiling eyes and coaxed,
“Little sister, would you like to marry into the marquis’s household and become the Marchioness?”
Shadows of the Republic
My mother was exquisitely beautiful.
But during the years my father studied abroad, another man kept her in his power and abused her.
On the day Father returned, he stumbled upon what was happening.
I thought he would be horrified.
Furious.
Instead, he merely closed the bedroom door.
And heartlessly shut my mother inside with her humiliation and her tears.
I Helped My Mother-in-Law Take Down a Homewrecker
I married well.
My husband’s family was one of the most prominent in the area.
My hopelessly devoted husband did whatever I asked, and although my mother-in-law wasn’t entirely happy with me, she was an upright woman who never picked on me.
Then one day, my father-in-law’s two-faced stepsister came back from abroad and made my mother-in-law’s life a living hell.
That was when I stepped in.
The Chime of Orchid Porcelain
In the twelfth year after my rebirth, the first thing I did upon leaving the Xie estate was visit my grave from my former life.
It lay alone in the wilderness, with Qingming as cold as winter and weeds growing ten feet high.
I added a shovelful of fresh earth and told myself, “Ah Lan, don’t look back. Keep walking.”
Joyful Reunion
I am the unlucky princess who got thrown into the Cold Palace.
The people above gave me two choices: either become a eunuch’s palace wife, or marry a fool.
Without the slightest hesitation, I chose to marry the fool.
After all, he comes with an extra part. I’d be getting the better deal~
I Will Not Bow
When my beloved childhood friend publicly humiliated me, my own sister called it harmless fun.
I answered by turning his joke into a scandal that swept the capital.
After years in exile, I returned unwilling to bend—to my scheming sister, her five doting brothers, or the prince who treated my marriage as a bargaining chip.
They expected a disgraced noblewoman they could sacrifice.
Instead, I used every plot against them, exposed every betrayal, and chose to break before I bowed.
After Both Amnesiac Archenemies Lose Their Memories
After my sworn enemy and I both lost our memories, we lost control and ended up in bed together.
He was “gifted beyond measure,” and I was “shamelessly uninhibited.”
Physical desire and psychological disgust tore viciously at each other.
When my memories returned, I stared at my longtime nemesis, bare from the waist up, loving him and hating him all at once.
While enjoying his top-tier stamina, I maliciously recorded a video of him acting like my dog.
The shock brought his memories back.
After a brutal fight, we went our separate ways.
When we met again,
the wedding convoys of Hua Kingdom’s two great families ran into each other on a narrow road.
Song Jinbie and I regarded each other coldly, then brushed past without a word.
But late that night,
my newlywed husband was hanging upside down from the ceiling. Song Jinbie’s tone was lazy as he said,
“Become a widow, or marry me. Pick one.”
I likewise handed a hemp rope to his newlywed wife.
“Either tie it around yourself, or loop it around your husband’s neck.”
Moonlight Once Shone on Me
Fu Huaijin gave up a free and prosperous modern life to save Xie Shi’an, the orphaned slave who rose to become the empire’s chief minister.
Seven years into their marriage, the man who once swore to love only her begins longing for the temptations his power can buy—and for a dazzling young transmigrator who reminds him of the woman Huaijin used to be.
When Huaijin agrees to let him take a concubine, Xie Shi’an believes she has finally yielded, never suspecting that she has also asked the empress to dissolve their marriage.
But a possessive man at the pinnacle of power has no intention of releasing the moonlight that once saved him, even after she chooses freedom over everything he can offer.
And when Huaijin finds her way home, Xie Shi’an learns too late that love without equality, respect, and acceptance was never the devotion he imagined.
When Autumn Led Me Astray
On the day I got divorced, I walked away with over a hundred million in assets.
Before I could enjoy the payoff, I dropped dead.
I opened my eyes back in high school, where a rich boy with a terrible reputation was asking me out in front of everyone.
My ex-husband was certain my taste was too good to accept him.
I snatched the love letter and said yes.
This time, I wasn’t about to suffer through building a fortune from scratch.