Cast Aside, She Married the Rugged Neighbor—and Made Her Ex Regret It

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Author:
莫问钱程
Status:Ongoing

Summary

Second marriage + slapping the face of a scumbag + male lead fighting and fighting + emotional and emotional effort.

Three years of marriage left Ruan Qingli with nothing but heartbreak. Branded as an infertile wife and abandoned by the man who never truly cherished her, she carries the burden of a failed marriage—until fate gives her a second chance at love.

On her wedding night with her new husband, Han Sheng, an unexpected truth comes to light: she bleeds.

Shocked, Han Sheng asks quietly, “You’ve… never?”

Flustered, Qingli can only stammer, “N-not… like this…”

His surprise soon melts into a knowing smile.

“Qingli,” he says softly, “it seems the reason you couldn’t have children was never you—it was someone else all along.”

In an instant, the lies that ruined her first marriage begin to unravel.

Now married to a man who refuses to let her be wronged, Qingli finally experiences the tenderness, passion, and unwavering devotion she was denied for years. While her shameless ex-husband realizes too late what he has lost and desperately tries to win her back, Han Sheng has no intention of letting anyone steal his wife.

With face-slapping revenge, a fiercely possessive hero who fights for the woman he loves, sizzling chemistry that turns into heartfelt romance, and a heroine reclaiming her happiness, this is a story of second chances, healing, and proving that the right love changes everything.

Novel Items

Dudou

Clothing

An embroidered undergarment worn by Ruan Qingli. Her mother-in-law bought her two chi of cloth and made seven or eight dudou for her. She showed Fang Shubai the one she was wearing, which was pale pink and embroidered.

Gynecology Classics

Medical Text

A medical text quoted by Doctor Zhang during Ruan Qingli's examination. It states: On frozen ground no grass grows; in the deepest icy abyss no fish or dragons thrive. If the womb itself is cold, how can it nurture conception?

Silver (two taels)

Currency

Two taels of silver that Fang Shubai paid to Doctor Zhang as a bribe to keep both his own condition and his wife's illness secret.

Nourishing medicines

Medicine

Medicines prescribed by Doctor Zhang for Ruan Qingli. Fang Shubai requested them, claiming his wife's health was too weak and needed proper care, though he knew her condition was incurable.

Chicken

Food

Live chickens bought by An Ruoyan and Deng Xiuli (two chickens). Liu Dingxiang also cooked a chicken for An Ruoyan, which was chopped into pieces and distributed among the Gu family, with a portion saved for An Ruoyan.

Silver earrings and silver ring

Item

Ruan Qingli's only jewelry, given to her by Madam Zhou after she married into the Fang family. Worth eight hundred copper coins total. These were the only items stolen by the thief from her jewelry box.

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AstroXVXV Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ October 9,2025

'It was Ruan Qingli's scent.' Three words. That's all it took to make me sit there staring at my screen like an absolute idiot. Han Sheng wrapping himself in the quilt Ali made and smelling her jasmine on it — and then realizing the door was broken so there was nothing separating them anymore except 'their own conscience.' The author wrote 'And she trusted something as unreliable as conscience without the slightest hesitation. This girl... She was far too innocent.' And I just... I felt everything. The way Han Sheng stays up worrying about whether she's safe, kicks the door down thinking she's being held hostage, then turns around so fast he almost gives her a heart attack. He's a constable, he's seen terrible things, but the moment he sees her half-dressed and glistening with water droplets, he can't even look at her. He's not some cold martial artist archetype, he's a guy who's genuinely flustered by a woman he's developing feelings for. And Ali — she makes him breakfast, she makes him quilts, she sleeps peacefully in a room with an unlocked door because she trusts him. The romantic tension here isn't built on grand declarations, it's built on cotton batting and jasmine and a broken wooden door.

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EminentVellichor Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ April 25,2026

Let's talk about Han Sheng because THIS man is doing things to my heart. When he first took Ruan Qingli in, the text literally says it was out of PITY. But watch how that changes. He's sleeping in the drafty main hall — his room is worse than hers — and his first instinct isn't to complain, it's to bring HER the quilt. He notices she's cold before she even says anything. And when she refuses it because she's trying to save money, he doesn't get mad. He just... persists. "Buy whatever the household needs." He gives her his own copper coins. The breakfast scene though — that's where it really hits. She trips on his bed in the dark, ends up on top of him, and instead of being creepy or awkward about it, he just... lets her up, teases her gently, takes her water buckets because "fetching water isn't included in the work you're being paid for." He's creating excuses to care for her and she doesn't even realize it. And when she's crying on the doorstep? He doesn't dismiss her pain. He says "Two people are better than one." He treats her like a partner, not a charity case. The man who started this out of pity has somehow become the person she trusts most. Meanwhile Fang Shubai — three years of marriage and the most hurtful thing he can do is aim for her infertility. The contrast isn't even funny.

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Aman_Raut Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ November 25,2025

I need to talk about Aunt Zhang because honestly she might be the most tragic character in this entire chapter and nobody else seems to notice. She's been there since the beginning — the only person who treated Ali with actual kindness during her marriage to Fang Shubai. Waking up early to do cold water chores during Ali's cycle. That's not servant duty, that's genuine care. And yet she's trapped. She can't even ask about the infertility thing without risking another matchmaking disaster. She literally thinks to herself 'if the Fang family asked you to come back, would you?' and then immediately regrets it because she's still employed by them. The powerlessness of it made my chest ache. Meanwhile she watches Ali make quilts for Han Sheng and smiles that knowing smile, and you can tell she's rooting for them but also terrified of getting her hopes up. And then there's the Fang family dynamic — Madam Zhou is openly vicious, calling Ali a 'damaged woman' while simultaneously trying to marry her son off to Miss Lin. Fang Xiuxiu spreading rumors. Fang Shubai oscillating between genuine obsession and calculated control. The relationship web in this story is so dense and I'm just sitting here emotionally compromised.

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ViadhivanRanatao7L Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ February 7,2026

So I've been thinking about the youguozi scene and honestly it's become this perfect symbol for everything the story is about. These little fried dough treats - crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, golden and warm and made fresh every morning. That's Ruan Qingli right there. She's been through hardship, she's been treated like she's broken, but underneath all of that she's still warm and good and worthy of something beautiful. And the fact that Han Sheng finishes his in three bites and gets crumbs on his mouth while she wipes them off... it's domestic. It's ordinary. It's EVERYTHING. The text describes the oil bubbling, the golden surfaces, the steam rising from the shop - it's so sensory and alive. This is what they're building toward. Not grand gestures or dramatic confessions, but morning breakfasts and buying fabric together and growing old in a small shop on a busy street. And then Su Mingyuan walks in at the end with a young woman beside him, and the whole scene just... pauses. Like the universe is reminding us that life keeps moving, people keep changing, and the best thing you can do is grab onto the warmth while it's right in front of you. The youguozi will get cold if you wait. Just like the text says when Han Sheng tells Ruan Qingli "if we wait any longer, the youguozi will get cold." Don't let it get cold. Eat it while it's hot.

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KarmaRune Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ December 27,2025

I need everyone to understand that the scene where Ruan Qingli measures Han Sheng for wedding clothes is one of the most deliciously tense moments I've read in a while and I am NOT okay. She's using her HANDS instead of a measuring tape. Her fingers are tracing his shoulders, his waist, his legs, and she's muttering under her breath "such broad shoulders... but such a slim waist... and these long legs..." and Han Sheng is just standing there with his HEART POUNDING trying to play it cool. The text literally says he thought: "Was Ali... secretly complimenting his figure?" AND THEN he kisses her. And she asks him to do it AGAIN. Like. She says "I think... I kind of liked it." I literally threw my phone across the room. This woman has been through SO MUCH and she's finally letting herself want something, finally letting herself be happy, and the way Han Sheng looks at her - with such tenderness, such patience - it's everything. The morning after where she kisses his cheek and he pulls her in for a REAL kiss, her hands on his firm chest, the way she unconsciously teases him without even realizing it... and then he says "how about... I take it off?" and she BLUSHES furiously. I'm dead. Absolutely deceased. The romance in this book is not playing around.

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alivegolden1 Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ March 13,2026

Okay I need to talk about Fang Shubai because this man is the absolute worst and I love how the text just demolishes him in one scene. So he shows up, sees Han Sheng and Ruan Qingli walking together in the morning sun, and his immediate solution is to offer MONEY. One hundred taels. Then fifty more. He literally tries to BUY back his ex-wife like she's a piece of furniture he left on layaway. And Han Sheng's response?? "What do you think Ah Li is? Some object to be bought and sold? Keep your filthy money." CHOMP. Absolute chomp. But here's what really got me - Fang Shubai's whole motivation isn't even love. It's EGO. The text says it perfectly: "If no one else wanted Ruan Qingli, he might not have cared so much. But now that another man treasured her, he simply couldn't accept it." That's not love, that's possession. And then he throws out the child issue like it's some kind of insult - "she shared my bed for three years and she still can't bear children" - as if that's something he can use as leverage against someone else. The man is a walking red flag with a scholar's degree. Meanwhile Han Sheng, who has fallen out with his own family and has almost nothing, says he'll find the best physician and if that doesn't work they'll ADOPT. He sees her worth immediately. The contrast is just... wow.

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