Reborn, my husband finally marries his beloved, while I wed far away in Jiangnan.

“Xiaoxiao,we’ve lived a full life together.In the next life,please let me be with Ranyan.” With tears in my eyes,I nodded under his hopeful gaze.Ranyan was a serendipitous encounter he’d had at a flower-viewing banquet;he’d fallen head over heels for her at first sight. In my youth,when I was still naive,I was always jealous of Ranyan—until she married and died alongside her husband in a fierce political struggle. Xu Qingyuan also agreed to his mother’s wishes and married me,a woman of equal social standing.We lived our lives as husband and wife,treating each other with mutual respect. After his death,I sorted through his belongings with our children.I finally stepped into the study he had never allowed me to enter. The study was filled with his love letters to Jin Ranyan,spanning from the moment they met all the way until he married me. On our wedding day,the bamboo slips bore tear stains,filled with his sense of inevitability and his love.He wrote,“I will not betray the world,nor will I betray you.” My heart ached,and I gently placed all the things he cherished into his coffin to accompany him in death. Leaning softly against his coffin,I whispered, “We’ve spent our entire lives without control over our own destinies.In the next life,let’s just let it go.” Fifty years have passed since our wedding.Xu Qingyuan has never done anything to wrong me;while we may not be deeply in love,we treat each other with mutual respect. He has never taken a concubine and has always granted me the honor and dignity I deserve.The noblewomen of the capital all say I am fortunate to have such a devoted husband from a distinguished family. He is devoted—but sadly,not to me.I merely smile at them;the bitterness and the ups and downs of it all are known only to me. Exhausted,I lay in bed at night,thinking of all that had passed,and drifted off into a drowsy sleep. When I opened my eyes again,I had returned to the eve of the flower-viewing banquet. #reborn #rebirth #revenge #love #lovestory #romance #audiobook #ancient #ancient lovestory #webnovel