Reborn from Ashes: Square with the General

I was betrothed to Xie Chonglou for sixteen years, yet he suddenly came to Break Off Engagement.

Later, I appealed to the Empress Dowager, and forced him to marry me.

After our marriage, he humiliated and neglected me to the utmost, even bringing another woman home and announcing his intention to divorce me and remarry.

By then, the Lu Family had already declined, and even the Empress Dowager was unwilling to stand up for me anymore.

But I am a woman of fierce spirit, unable to endure such humiliation. On the night of their wedding, I set the General’s Mansion ablaze.

When I opened my eyes again, I had actually been reborn to a month before the Break Off Engagement.

This time, before he could speak, I took the initiative to enter the palace and requested an imperial decree from the Empress Dowager:

“Your Subject’s Daughter and General Xie are fated but not destined; it would be better to dissolve the engagement and seek other suitable matches.”

With the engagement dissolved, Xie Chonglou should have been pleased, yet after receiving the decree, he came to the Lu Family every day to seek an audience with me.

Unable to bear his harassment, I had my maid Xiao Zhi deliver a message to him:

“Since you do not wish to marry me, is my current action not exactly what you desire? Why do you keep pestering me?”

That night, I pushed open my window and saw, under the moonlight, the young Xie Chonglou in dark robes climbing over the wall.

He stopped before my window, gritting his teeth and asked:

“Lu Zhaoyi, who said Young Master does not want to marry you?”