“Father.” Hu Youning hurriedly went forward to help up the emotionally overwhelmed Zhou Fulang, while quietly raising his eyes to look at Li Ruantang, who was saying something to Jiujiu on the side.

“It was Li Niang who saved me.”

Hu Sanniang, a step behind Zhou Fulang, heard these words and immediately knelt in front of Li Ruantang, “Lady, your great kindness, I, Hu San, will never forget.”

“San Niang, please get up quickly.” Li Ruantang helped up the sweating Hu Sanniang, “There are some things I need to tell San Niang.”

“Li Niang, Li Fulang, please come inside.” Hu Sanniang nodded repeatedly.

Everyone went into the main hall together.

Meng Jun sat down next to Li Ruantang. Seeing Hu Sanniang again, he still felt some anger in his heart. But when he saw Hu Youning with his red-rimmed eyes, the young gentleman’s cold expression softened a bit.

“Ning’er, go boil some hot water.” Zhou Fulang gently patted Hu Youning’s hand, sending him out.

Hu Sanniang was still shaken even as she sat down. She frowned deeply and sighed heavily, “Li Niang, if it weren’t for your intervention today, I’m afraid my only son would have been taken away by that scoundrel Fu, who knows what terrible state he would be in.”

“San Niang, you’re too kind. This was just a small matter,” Li Ruantang said calmly. “But I observed that Fu Lanxian is not truly a cowardly person. Although she was dealt with by me today, she has been running rampant in the village for many years. How could she easily swallow this insult?”

“Therefore, whether today’s incident is a blessing or a worry for the Hu family is still unknown. The urgent matter at hand should be to seek the help of the authorities.”

“What Li Niang said, how could we not have thought of it?” At the mention of this, Hu Sanniang’s brows furrowed even deeper. “But this Long Mountain Gully often has landslides. Even if we seek the authorities, they often delay matters.”

“What about the village chief?” Li Ruantang was surprised.

Zhou Fulang held his wife-master’s palm and spoke for her, “The previous village chief was my wife-master’s mother, but she has passed away. Although the village has reported a new village chief, before the official document comes down, who would want to wade into this muddy water and provoke the village bully?”

“That Fu Lanxian said you owe her money,” Li Ruantang pondered for a moment and asked, “Did you sign any IOU?”

Hu Sanniang’s face flushed with embarrassment, and she nodded slowly, “At that time, I had a few drinks too many, so…”

“How about this,” Li Ruantang’s gaze briefly swept over the young gentleman who had been silent beside her. “Since Young Master Hu gets along well with my husband, when someone comes from home in a few days, those three taels of silver can be included in the account.”

“This…”

Hu Sanniang was both surprised and delighted upon hearing this, and quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowing several times, “Thank you, Li Niang, thank you, Li Fulang.”

Outside, the sky’s cloud layer was growing increasingly thick.

Back in their temporary room.

The young gentleman remained gloomy, only showing a slight smile when Hu Youning brought in steamed fish.

“Jiujiu, thank you and…”

Hu Youning glanced at Li Ruantang, who was sleeping on the kang, and said sincerely, “And Li Niang for today.”

Although the young gentleman was angry at Hu Sanniang’s unscrupulous thoughts, scheming against other men for the sake of her own son, after interacting with Hu Youning, he deeply felt that Aning was a kind-hearted man. After all, children can’t choose their parents.

Meng Jun sighed, “Aning, the best course of action now is for you to quickly find a family and settle on a marriage.”

Otherwise, if he couldn’t successfully matchmake, when they return to the capital in a few days, that Fu Lanxian would likely become even more troublesome.

“Jiujiu, to be honest, in this Hu Village, there are no longer any ladies who dare to come and propose marriage to me.”

Hu Youning pursed his lips sadly and lowered his voice, “Before Fu Lanxian came to cause trouble, I was proud and wanted to find a wife-master I admired, so I refused quite a few marriage proposals. But now that Fu Lanxian has caused such a scene, those young ladies are all afraid of her, so how would they come to propose marriage again?”

Zhou Fulang had never told him these things, and Hu Sanniang had also remained silent.

But Hu Youning was not foolish, how could he not understand the underlying relationships?

He just wanted to find someone who truly cared for him, but fate played tricks on him.

Meng Jun heard this and sighed inwardly, just about to open his mouth to comfort him.

“Mmm, Jiujiu.”

The woman’s soft voice sounded low, Li Ruantang hadn’t fully awakened yet.

Earlier, when she dealt with Fu Lanxian, it looked effortless, but in reality, it had consumed a lot of her energy. Combined with the injuries on her body, which were now all aching together, her call for the young gentleman’s nickname carried a different kind of intimacy in its tone.

“Jiujiu, you… you take care of Li Niang first.” Hu Youning hurriedly turned to leave, he left in such a hurry that he didn’t even realize he had dropped his handkerchief on the ground.

“Aning!”

Meng Jun had just picked up the handkerchief, but Hu Youning was already nowhere to be seen at the door. The young gentleman frowned in confusion, then glanced at Li Ruantang, who was tightly covered on the kang.

Strange, he wasn’t going to eat anyone, why did Aning run so fast?

However, now was not the time to investigate this matter.

The young gentleman pattered towards the edge of the kang, helping the dazed Li Ruantang sit up, “Wife-master.”

He carefully examined Li Ruantang’s tightly furrowed brows, “Are you having a headache again?”

“…Mm.”

She had just exerted a bit of strength earlier, but now her whole body felt exhausted and powerless. Even sitting up made her dizzy.

Li Ruantang propped herself up with her hand, her ears buzzing, her face even paler than before. Leaning in the young gentleman’s embrace, her breath was much weaker than before.

“Then let me blow on it for the wife-master.”

Warm breath brushed past the stray hairs on Li Ruantang’s forehead. Meng Jun felt a pain in his chest; he had never seen Li Ruantang look so lifeless before.

Even if they weren’t wife and husband, they still had the bond of growing up together since childhood.

The young gentleman held her a bit tighter, his phoenix eyes slightly lowered. After a moment of hesitation, he tentatively called, “Tangtang?”

Li Ruantang’s eyelids were extremely heavy. Hearing his soft call, she wanted to open her eyes but could only weakly move her lips.

And that blush that should have tinged her eyes and brows was no longer there as expected.

Just a short while ago, she would have blushed at this.

Meng Jun’s heart sank, an endless chill rising from the soles of his feet. No, he had to get Hu Sanniang to call for a doctor no matter what.

Li Ruantang’s injuries weren’t really serious, but she had hit her head and lost so much blood.

Before, she just couldn’t remember people, but now it seemed she couldn’t wake up.

The young gentleman hurriedly and carefully helped her lie back on the pillow. He hadn’t even taken a step when his wide sleeve was tightly grasped.

“Jiujiu.”

Li Ruantang struggled to open her eyes a bit, wanting to smile at him, but after trying for a long time, her lips only moved slightly, “I’m fine.”

She had suffered severe injuries before and even escaped death. She knew clearly that this was just fatigue and weakness caused by deficiency of both qi and blood.

But Jiujiu was just a young master raised in the inner courtyard, how could he have seen such a situation before?

Seeing those beautiful phoenix eyes brimming with tears, a face full of worry, Li Ruantang’s heart softened considerably. Her fingers, still grasping his sleeve, were a bit improper as they held the young gentleman’s wrist through the cloth.

“Look, I’m really fine.”

“I’m just hungry, that’s why I have no strength.”

With each sentence she spoke, teardrops from the young gentleman’s eyes fell onto the back of her hand.

“Jiujiu, don’t cry, my body is fine.”

Li Ruantang had never seen such a scene before. She hurriedly took the young gentleman’s hand and placed it on her chest. Through a layer of undergarment, the temperature was just right.

She smiled, pursing her lips, and comforted him gently, “See, isn’t it beating vigorously?”

Thump thump—, thump thump—

The strong heartbeat seemed to penetrate through the skin into his fingertips. The young gentleman instinctively withdrew his hand, but Li Ruantang pressed the back of his hand firmly against her.

The fingertips that touched her trembled and then gently, almost imperceptibly, gave a little pinch.

In an instant, the young gentleman’s ears were filled with a chaotic thump thump thump, as if someone was beating gongs and drums, or like spring thunder exploding.

Yet the one offering soft words of comfort hadn’t noticed at all, and still racked her brains to console him, saying, “Jiujiu, don’t worry, my heartbeat is as strong as a little white rabbit hopping between the trees.”

“I’ve heard that men like cute animals. In a few days when my injury is better, I’ll catch a little rabbit for you, how about that?”

Eh?

The young gentleman was stunned, his tear-reddened eyes and brows even more alluring. He looked at his own fingers in a daze, catch, catch what?

***

Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation (Female-dominant)

One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.

Intro:

To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.

But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.

It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.

This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.

Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.

Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.

“Let’s divorce!”

***

Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.

Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?

But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.

Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.

Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.

In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.

Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”

Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.

He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”

***

Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.

But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.

“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”

Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?

Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?

[Reading Guide]

1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.

2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.

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