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  1. Aquaa

    Aquaa 『We Lost The Summer』

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    Chinese Title:- 繼母撂挑子了

    Raw link:- https://m.shubaow.net/174/174048/

    Summary :-
    Shen Yan Mo was reborn. Reborn to the time when she was thrown to the village.

    Before she was reborn, she was the first daughter whose parents died and was not favored. She married the Marquis of Wuchang as a stepmother, and the old lady of the Marquis was afraid that she would give birth to the first son and neglect the first son of the original Marquis Wuchang’s wife, so she was wary of Shen Yan Mo.

    The marquis was afraid that Shen Yan Mo was a black-hearted stepmother who was cold-hearted and indifferent. The marquis did not consummate the marriage with Shen Yanmo and went to war, leaving Shen Yanmo alone in the Marquis Manor to be looked upon with disdain.

    A year later the marquis returned triumphantly. He drunkenly pulled Shen Yan Mo to consummate the marriage, and the father of several children was like a young brat. Afterward, he disliked her and threw her to the village to fend for herself and she died during childbirth.

    After being reborn, Shen Yan Mo got a divorce letter and set up her own business, keeping away from the rights and wrongs of the marquis. She did not want to be a stepmother anymore, so she focused on raising her own children, which was much better than fighting in the inner courtyards.

    After many years, Shen Yan Mo found out that it was someone else with whom she consummated the marriage, and that person wanted to marry her.

    Sorry, she does not want to marry.

    Her ex-husband regrets the divorce and wants to get back together.

    Go away.

    Small theater: Ye Shaofu, who was dressed in a groom’s robe stood in front of the Shen Mansion: “Tell your wife that I’m coming to marry her. Let her out.”

    Shen Mansion underling opened the door and handed over a letter: “I’m sorry, Your Highness, our Madame has gone on a long trip and her return date is uncertain.”

    Ye Shaofu unfolded the letter, read a few lines and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and passed out.

    Author: the male lead is a virgin, is a virgin, is a virgin. The important thing to say three times.



    Any spoilers please?:blobpeek::derpyblob:
     
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    The chapters are lengthy but fast passed, not boring at all. Here are spoilers up to chapter 10:

    The story starts describing how FL died in her past life: She died giving birth to her child. Although she was half conscious with her eyes closed, she could know what was happening around her; her mother-in-law take her just born child and killed him crushing him to the floor. Then, FL was reborn to the first day after she was driven out of the Marquis Mansion.

    Note: The way the FL was "reborn" is most like a dream revelation, something she has not experienced yet, but know because of her dream, explaining why she could know details she should not know, since she never stepped out of the marquis mansion.

    After FL wake up, she knew her current state and decided to get a divorce. Her brother came and heard how wronged FL was in the household (FL was framed of abuse by the Marquis' daughter and everyone was abusing her) and wanted to go to the marquis to defend her sister, but FL stoped him and told him about her dream and how if he goes he would get his leg broken and his fiance would ditch him because of that and also lost the chance for the imperial examination). The brother didn't go to the Marquis Mansion but go with FL to some temple to pray.

    About the abuse FL experienced, the white lotus cousin framed her of bad behaviour and was constantly punished by the Mother-In-Law. Also the step-daughter framed her of abuse, probably done in collaboration of the Marquis cousin (Aunt Wen) who is in love of the Marquis, but the Mother-In-Law chose FL to marry her son because she has no parents and FL uncle and aunt are greedy people, making FL has no backing and in consequence easy to bully.

    FL and her brother goes to the temple. There was ML who was impersonating the Marquis because the Marquis got a heavy injury and needed ML help to conceal it from his family while Marquis was healing himself in the temple (Marquis and ML are cousins and looks very alike). Some time before, the ML returned to the Marquis Mansion impersonating the Marquis and was poisoned with aphrodisiac medicine solving it with FL, blaming her for that and making it the reason to expell her from the household to the city (FL didn't know anything of this and believed it was her husband, the Marquis). That was the conversation between the Marquis and ML and upon knowing the poisoning and cuckold, the Marquis decided to give the divorce letter and 20k silver taels to FL.

    FL and her brother returned to her house, but in the way she encountered a little boy who begged help for her dying mother. FL knew that they would die and become ghost if nobody helps them and save them was also a reason she wanted to go to the temple. FL took the mother and child with them to her house.

    Meanwhile ML returned to Marquis Household still impersonating the Marquis and ordered the buttler to give the letter of divorce and silver to FL. To surprise of everybody, FL received calmly the divorce letter and silver and when the buttler reported back to ML he ordered his shadow guard to spy on FL.

    (ML was some kind of king, but not royalty)

    The shadow guard reported back that not only she was not distressed by the divorce, but also celebrated it with her servants and ML didn't know what scheme was planning FL as if she was some venomous viper.

    FL maternal aunt came to her to try to make her beg to return to the Marquis Mansion, but FL explained how wronged she was and her aunt didn't make things difficult to her. If she was not wanted in the Marquis Mansion, there was not many benefits they could get either.

    Some days later, the woman FL rescued revealed her background, she was the young lady of the Jin Family, a merchant family with some knowledge on medicine herbs who was once married to a scumbag who used her and almost killed her for his own interest (the scumbag married the then sole daughter of the Marquis family, the same one FL married, and almost killed the Jin Lady to conceal it from them). The Jin Lady decided to aid FL. This woman was a genius with ginecological problems and knew that FL was pregnant and her worries, so helped her to design a plan to get the help of the Empress who can't get pregnant at all.

    The Jin Lady and FL started to give treatment to two couples who can't have children and successfully helped one of them get pregnant. This is know by ML and concluded FL wanted to get Empress' help to make her return to the Marquis household. To this point ML is interested in FL and wanted to make her concubine.

    FL get the attention of the Empress and after knowing there was hope, the Empress took her and the Jin Lady into the palace with the sole requirement to get FL's parents property if there is success in the treatment. FL family then came and told her about the concubine thing, but it was very lucky to FL to get the timely help of the Empress to avoid it.
     
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    Aquaa 『We Lost The Summer』

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    kcinara Well-Known Member

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    It wasn’t the Mother-in-Law that killed the child, she only heard the voice and later found out it was the white lotus cousin.
     
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    You're welcome.

    I made a mistake. It was not the Mother-In-Law who killed the child in the first life, but the white lotus cousin Wen Wan. This is revealed in chapter 30 when FL recognized Wen Wan's voice as the one she heard in her dream.

    Spoilers until Chapter 30:

    The Empress took MC and Lady Jin into the palace to have her body treated to be able to become pregnant and FL successfuly rejects ML's proposal to become concubine.

    Meanwhile, Princess Minxia (ML's suitor and cousin of the Emperor) learns that ML wanted to have a concubine of the Shen family (FL's family) and her nanny advices her to kill FL. The nanny sets FL's house on fire but only dies the elderly people who took care of FL. This is known by ML and FL.

    FL and Lady Jin sets a scheme to get the help of the empress against Princess Minxia. They knew Princess Minxia would not stop and would try to harm FL in the palace. ML's spies know about this and helped them without they knowledge and later Princess Minxia really try to poison FL with some slow poison but it resulted to be a vicious one that poisoned Lady Jin (with her knowledge).

    The empress and the emperor was really pissed and ordered to kill the nanny and to expell the Princess from the capital, sending her to te fiefdom.

    Later, after a few months, the Empress became pregnant and the Emperor is happy. FL requested as her reward to recover all her parents belongings. The Shen Family didn't want to give it to them but finally had to return the things to FL and her brother.

    FL also requested to the emperor to make bussiness together. Emperor was happy that someone wanted to give him money instead of ask for it and accepts to the proposal in the basis that 70% of the profit became the Emperor's and let only 30% to FL. FL wanted 40% but even accepted that arrangement without refusal. (greedy Emperor).

    ML visited the Emperor because of the bussiness matter and the Emperor told him he fancied FL. ML became pale with fright because if the Emperor wanted FL, there would not be a way to have her, but the Emperor told him he would not covet a pregnant woman. ML is shocked and for the first time he learned FL was pregnant with his seed.

    ML visited FL in the palace and confirmed she was pregnant and decided to protect her from everyone. ML send two female guards to protect FL. This was a little funny, because ML should make an act to have the two bodyguards enter FL house, they passed as a neightboor that was wronged by the step-mother and during over 10 days they would be yelled all day and scared to be sold to the brothel, the people of FL finally took pity of them and asked FL to buy these two women as slaves and they finally entered FL house.

    After the Empress was pregnant, FL exits the palace and returns to her house. A new house bought with the money obtained from the divorce. Princess Minxia was back for the new year celebration and had to go back to her fiefdom after the lantern festival. Princess Minxia visited FL's house and was told by FL's brother that she would never became a concubine of ML. Princess Minxia finally relaxed but was convinced by the evil cousin of the Marquis to attack FL in the lantern festival. FL was attacked by some thugs but was saved by the masked ML and this may be the turning point in their relationship (FL still doesn't know the identity of ML as the king who wanted her as concubine nor as the cousin of the marquis, only things is a thief who previously entered the palace).
     
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    Thank you for the spoiler summaries!
     
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    You're welcome. Glad you liked it :)

    Author has a way to add lots of text but it is enjoyable, not boring at all. However, it also makes it hard to summary it because one same chapter has a lots of things. Here is the most notable:

    After FL was saved by ML, ML interrogated the people trying to hurt FL. The last woman was the nanny of Cousin Wen (the white lotus) and in the interrogation it was discovered that was the cousin who poisoned FL and framed FL against everyone in the Marquis Mansion, clearing the misunderstanding over FL.

    ML sets Princess Minxia with some guy from a dukal family of the capital (something like see her while changing clothes or something like that) and the guy (who loved the princess) wanted to marry her to be responsible for her. His father, some Duke, goes to the emperor to beg him to let his son marry the princess and the Emperor did not wait to marry off this princess to that guy. The princess cried and begged to let her off but she was finally married.

    FL is preparing to go to another city to start a new life and make bussiness, but Lady Jin has an encounter with her son who was in a difficult position, the Lady Wen (the vixen who stole Lady Jin's scum husband and sold her after poisoned her) finally gave birth to a son and Lady Jin's son was a thorn in her eyes.

    Lady Jin's son always thought his mother abandoned him and Lady Wen take pity on him, but with the secret hint of ML this son discovered that his mother did not abandon him and that his mother was the legitimate first wife and that Lady Wen poisoned her and sold her. After this he decided to search Lady Jin and finally reunited with her. Both of them cried and have a good mother-son relationship.

    FL's brother used the "friendly neightbor" that know martial arts (one of the ML's shadow guards) and asked him to beat up the Marquis and ML. After the guard was told by ML to comply with the brother's request and use a replacement for him to beat, the shadow guard proceed and beat up the Marquis and the fake king (ML). After that, the brother requested help to beat up the scum Lady Wen's husband, that starts a period of bad luck for the Wen household. Lady Wen make it for everyone to believe that it was the fault of Lady Jin's son because his birthday was incompatible with the newly born baby and father Wen expells his son of the household.

    ML says he doesn't want FL as concubine anymore. The Marquis goes to ML to ask him about the change of heart, since ML was determined to have FL as concubine and ML told him FL his pregnant with his twins. Up to this point the Marquis was known all the bad things his cousin (now wife) did and that he also misunderstood FL.

    Up to chapter 32.
     
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    Sorry, didn't clarify why ML didn't want to have FL as concubine, it is because he wanted her as his legitimate wife to legitimate his children. This is something troublesome because the pregnancy came at a bad timing, when she was still married to the Marquis, making his children not only illegitimate, but from an affair, something trully shamefull not only to the mother, but also to the children.

    Anyway, after solving the matters between Lady Jin and her son, they prepare to immediately travel to another city searching for Lady Jin's master (not sure if there are family related but he is sure his master of medical knowledge). ML secretly saw FL depart and goes back to his mansion.

    In ML's mansion (King Jing's mansion - ML is royal, but not sure if the Jing Household is part of the imperial family, I think they are not) Old Prince Jing (ML's father) was waiting for ML after a decade of not reunite. ML's has a sad childhood and test his suspicions on Old Prince Jin and that same night is revealed ML's life experience.

    ML's is not the son of the Old Prince Jing. When ML was a baby the child of Prince Jing got gravely sick and Prince Jing decided to take his son to the hospital instead of waiting to the imperial doctor. Prince Jing's son died before he could reach the hospital, but came in contact with a woman who has a sickly child that wanted to dissapear (because the child being sick was a bad omen for the mother and the household). Prince Jing took that child and changed his own son with this baby to help his wife heal her grief. This baby was ML and his mother was FL's former Mother-In-Law (ML and the Marquis are twin brothers). Years later Prince Jing's wife discovered the change of her son and saw that the son looked like her husband and thought he was the son of a mistress. That make her crazy and started to mistreat with violence the poor ML while being only a child longing for the love of his parents. The reason he looked like Prince Jing was because he was brother of FL's former Mother-In-Law (Lady Wen).

    ML decided to separate from Old Prince Jing and the King Jing's household to pursue FL and told the truth to the emperor, that he was not the true King Jing and that he didn't want to be related to that anymore. The Emperor didn't want to lose ML but ML give him all the accounts of the people who has been robbing the Imperial Treasure in the name of borrow money. This make the emperor furious with all those leechers because the own Emperor has no money and take the advice of ML to make the Marquis (his brother) the one to recover the debt (as a retaliation to the mother who abandoned him).

    The Marquis seeks advice from ML because of the task of the Emperor and to borrow money from ML since the former Marquis also borrow money from the imperial treasure. Mother-In-Law (Lady Wen) and the White Lotus Cousin heard they need to borrow money and the cousin regreted not having set her eyes on ML since he was the rich one.

    After that ML went after FL and the scenary changes back to FL.

    Meanwhile, while traveling on some boats, FL party encountered water bandids. The guards dispatched by ML kill them all and FL party rescued some beauty woman. This woman is the daughter of a former imperial chef and naturally is a talented chef, they had a restaurant but after being betrayed by his father's disciples they father dies (or maybe the father dies and her and her mother are betrayed by the disciples). The thing is that the woman and her mother has to search they family but in the way the boss of the water bandits saw her and wanted her to marry him, kidnaping both the woman and her mother. After being rescued, the woman was able to reach her family but was rejected by them and she finally became one of FL's servants.

    FL bought a new house and went to search for Lady Jin's master with her, some Genius Doctor Xue. They found him but he lacked two herbs needed to heal Lady Jin, while talking with the doctor a bussiness man and his mother came to Doctor Xue for treatment for the mother (the mother was faking illness because she wanted to press her son to marry a third wife and have offspring) and after a fight caused by the dumb mother, the mother pushes FL to the floor and that make her enter in labor to give birth. After a complicated night, FL finally delivered the twins and neither of both mother and children die.

    ML was outside the house where FL enter in labor and saw his both sons after they were born.

    In her faint, FL started to dream the continuation of her first dream and saw that her memoria tablet was in ML's ancestral home (as someone surnamed Yun) as his wife, but FL couldn't understand the meaning of her dream. This tells us that it will be revealed what happened after she died in future chapters.

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    I might be missing some details or parts of the plot, but this is the general plot of the novel until chapter 40.
     
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    Thank you so much !
    Wahh dumb mother who 0ushed fl
     
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    So what's the ending of her ex-in-laws and ex-husband?
     
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