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辟寒金(上下) Another Chance to Live
"曾经的慕扶兰，天真柔善，生于富贵，不知险恶。
曾经的谢长庚，冷血无情，杀伐决断，一生谋算。
那时的谢长庚为河山，抛妻弃子，却终是黄粱一梦，空一场。
幸而上天待他不薄，给了他改变命运的机会。
如今的慕扶兰，温婉大气，聪慧果决。
如今的谢长庚，宁舍一身傲骨，唯求一人心。
此生，他独爱她一人，和她朝夕相对、白头偕老便是他的心愿。"
曾经的谢长庚，冷血无情，杀伐决断，一生谋算。
那时的谢长庚为河山，抛妻弃子，却终是黄粱一梦，空一场。
幸而上天待他不薄，给了他改变命运的机会。
如今的慕扶兰，温婉大气，聪慧果决。
如今的谢长庚，宁舍一身傲骨，唯求一人心。
此生，他独爱她一人，和她朝夕相对、白头偕老便是他的心愿。"
703 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2021
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蓬莱客
23 books2 followersAssociated Names:
* Peng Lai Ke (English)
* 蓬萊客 (Chinese)
* 蓬莱客 (Chinese)
* เผิงไหลเค่อ (Thai)
* Peng Lai Ke (English)
* 蓬萊客 (Chinese)
* 蓬莱客 (Chinese)
* เผิงไหลเค่อ (Thai)
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December 31, 2024
5 🌟
Made his life miserable till the end for ruining her last life and then chose facts over emotions. The woman you are 🙏🏻
Made his life miserable till the end for ruining her last life and then chose facts over emotions. The woman you are 🙏🏻
avoid
July 6, 2024Self note: highly emotional, devastating, and angty romance set in ancient China.
AVOID AVOID - H in the past life cant be redeemed for me, no matter how much he suffers in the current. F* this guy. NO WAY
SPOILERS:
- in their past life, the H is a ruthless, ambitious, cheating scumbag (he brought in a concubine into their home). He neglected the h/wife and his son for years, and she ultimately ended up dying, because he chose his ambition instead of saving her and her son when they were kidnapped by his enemies.
Details = In the past life, the imperial court used her - heroine/wife- and her son to threatened the H. On one hand, he wanted to save them, but he will lose all of his hard work. Since his wife and son weren't his priority he refuses to back down. In the end after being humiliated by the soldiers, our h is killed/committed suicide in front of her son.
But that was not the end. Even in death, she was humiliated. They hung her body upside down, NAKED, on the city wall...Her son is so traumatized by these events that he remained a mute all his life.
- After her death, she stayed as a ghost for 10 yrs to guard her son until her son commited suicide too on her 10 yr death anniversary - he slit his own throat right in front of his father's eyes in hatred, using the sword that his father had given to him personally, who is now the emperor. This scumbag H didnt even make their son the Crown Prince - the next king in line - because he became mute after her death. No he had SO many sons from his concubines.
- The novel starts when the FL wakes up after death, she is reborn in the past, right after she- a high status princess - married the low status H, and she spends the rest of the book, trying to leave him so she doesn't relive her past life.
It does have a HEA.
SPOILERS from another reviewer'
"So rebirth, according to synopsis she does leave his house but is forcibly brought back as he is more powerful compared to her family nd she has no choice. She literally hates him at first, but he forces her to have sex with him, nd that fucked up. Like we can see she is disgusted to sleep with him nd takes contraceptive medicine after sleeping with him so no one can deny that this was non consensual nd marital rape is a real thing. His mother is shitty as always nd wants him to take a concubine and hates MC, nd ML does nothing about it, cuz she's his mother but he also expects MC to leave her family nd friends nd forget abt them to live with him..... HYPOCRITE He gets really angry when MC gets close to her male friend even though they dont have much romantic feelings and expects MC to not be jealous of other women his mom is stuffing him with.
Also she finds Xie'er (her son from previous life) in a monastery as a little 4 yr old monk and immediately adopts him nd I think that was the best moment of the story. Xie'er doesnt remember anything of past life but he loves MC very much nd immediately thinks that she is his mother. The Xie'er nd MC moments are so cuteee!! But here comes ML, he finds the child..... nd his dumb ass thinks thats the child is of MC nd another man...... like how dumb can he be, MC at the time is 17 and the child is 4, so he thinks she gave birth at 13 yrs of age nd doubts that the father is her childhood friend who he's jealous of. He comes to slowly love the child but the MC is still unmoved which is kinda better. but he again forces her to sleep with him. She slowly gains power nd divorces him nd lives in her kingdom with xie'er. The ML misses her but cant do anything abt it.
i thought we'll end here, but no the ML asks MC to marry him nd become empress to which she agrees for some political reason I dont care abt. ML tells everyone that xie'er is his child and makes him crown prince. xie'er nd ML start getting memories back, ML is depressed everyday nd xie'er wants to kill ML. At the end when ML is missing nd proclaimed dead, our miss MC misses him nd thinks he didnt deserve such a death, like he didnt care abt her death in past life, nd he only paid attention to her this life was bcuz he felt like she did not love him.
Anyways she finds him in a remote village nd gets to know that xie'er plotted all this nd ML complied with it cuz he feels guilty.
She cuts off ties with xie'er for this.... like thats ur son and according to his age he did the right thing he naturally feels that ML does not deserve happiness nd needs retribution for his past actions nd still MC leaves her child to live with ml, the MC lives like normal couple with ML in village happily ever after. She decides to forgive him as at the end she feels that OH! HE'S NOT AS TERRIBLE AS PAST LIFE so lets give him a 2nd chance. I do not forgive this man for what he did to MC in 1st life.
and the trope of men neglecting their wives because they are obedient, virtuous and perfect and only giving them attention when they start acting different, disobedient as if these men didnt create these criteria's for a women to be their wife is funny.
This insinuates that u need to have to have a personality only disobedient enough for ML to like you, not enough to make him hate you, only willful enough to make ML fall in love with u, but not enough to make him resent u, selfish enough to make him pamper u, but not enough to make him disgusted with you, its like u need a specific % of traits for the ML to like MC. Like being introverted was not MC's choice but she had to in a new nd strange house where her mother-in-law hated her nd husband neglected her, she had to live cautiously otherwise her kingdom would not receive any help from ML's."
- more spoilers here- https://www.novelupdates.com/series/p...
English translated book - https://novelrev.wordpress.com/2022/0...
Book is also known as Pihanjin.
AVOID AVOID - H in the past life cant be redeemed for me, no matter how much he suffers in the current. F* this guy. NO WAY
SPOILERS:
- in their past life, the H is a ruthless, ambitious, cheating scumbag (he brought in a concubine into their home). He neglected the h/wife and his son for years, and she ultimately ended up dying, because he chose his ambition instead of saving her and her son when they were kidnapped by his enemies.
Details = In the past life, the imperial court used her - heroine/wife- and her son to threatened the H. On one hand, he wanted to save them, but he will lose all of his hard work. Since his wife and son weren't his priority he refuses to back down. In the end after being humiliated by the soldiers, our h is killed/committed suicide in front of her son.
But that was not the end. Even in death, she was humiliated. They hung her body upside down, NAKED, on the city wall...Her son is so traumatized by these events that he remained a mute all his life.
- After her death, she stayed as a ghost for 10 yrs to guard her son until her son commited suicide too on her 10 yr death anniversary - he slit his own throat right in front of his father's eyes in hatred, using the sword that his father had given to him personally, who is now the emperor. This scumbag H didnt even make their son the Crown Prince - the next king in line - because he became mute after her death. No he had SO many sons from his concubines.
- The novel starts when the FL wakes up after death, she is reborn in the past, right after she- a high status princess - married the low status H, and she spends the rest of the book, trying to leave him so she doesn't relive her past life.
It does have a HEA.
SPOILERS from another reviewer'
"So rebirth, according to synopsis she does leave his house but is forcibly brought back as he is more powerful compared to her family nd she has no choice. She literally hates him at first, but he forces her to have sex with him, nd that fucked up. Like we can see she is disgusted to sleep with him nd takes contraceptive medicine after sleeping with him so no one can deny that this was non consensual nd marital rape is a real thing. His mother is shitty as always nd wants him to take a concubine and hates MC, nd ML does nothing about it, cuz she's his mother but he also expects MC to leave her family nd friends nd forget abt them to live with him..... HYPOCRITE He gets really angry when MC gets close to her male friend even though they dont have much romantic feelings and expects MC to not be jealous of other women his mom is stuffing him with.
Also she finds Xie'er (her son from previous life) in a monastery as a little 4 yr old monk and immediately adopts him nd I think that was the best moment of the story. Xie'er doesnt remember anything of past life but he loves MC very much nd immediately thinks that she is his mother. The Xie'er nd MC moments are so cuteee!! But here comes ML, he finds the child..... nd his dumb ass thinks thats the child is of MC nd another man...... like how dumb can he be, MC at the time is 17 and the child is 4, so he thinks she gave birth at 13 yrs of age nd doubts that the father is her childhood friend who he's jealous of. He comes to slowly love the child but the MC is still unmoved which is kinda better. but he again forces her to sleep with him. She slowly gains power nd divorces him nd lives in her kingdom with xie'er. The ML misses her but cant do anything abt it.
i thought we'll end here, but no the ML asks MC to marry him nd become empress to which she agrees for some political reason I dont care abt. ML tells everyone that xie'er is his child and makes him crown prince. xie'er nd ML start getting memories back, ML is depressed everyday nd xie'er wants to kill ML. At the end when ML is missing nd proclaimed dead, our miss MC misses him nd thinks he didnt deserve such a death, like he didnt care abt her death in past life, nd he only paid attention to her this life was bcuz he felt like she did not love him.
Anyways she finds him in a remote village nd gets to know that xie'er plotted all this nd ML complied with it cuz he feels guilty.
She cuts off ties with xie'er for this.... like thats ur son and according to his age he did the right thing he naturally feels that ML does not deserve happiness nd needs retribution for his past actions nd still MC leaves her child to live with ml, the MC lives like normal couple with ML in village happily ever after. She decides to forgive him as at the end she feels that OH! HE'S NOT AS TERRIBLE AS PAST LIFE so lets give him a 2nd chance. I do not forgive this man for what he did to MC in 1st life.
and the trope of men neglecting their wives because they are obedient, virtuous and perfect and only giving them attention when they start acting different, disobedient as if these men didnt create these criteria's for a women to be their wife is funny.
This insinuates that u need to have to have a personality only disobedient enough for ML to like you, not enough to make him hate you, only willful enough to make ML fall in love with u, but not enough to make him resent u, selfish enough to make him pamper u, but not enough to make him disgusted with you, its like u need a specific % of traits for the ML to like MC. Like being introverted was not MC's choice but she had to in a new nd strange house where her mother-in-law hated her nd husband neglected her, she had to live cautiously otherwise her kingdom would not receive any help from ML's."
- more spoilers here- https://www.novelupdates.com/series/p...
English translated book - https://novelrev.wordpress.com/2022/0...
Book is also known as Pihanjin.
July 2, 2025
In Pihanjin, half a year into her marriage, Mu Fulan wakes up from a bad dream, and decides to return to her family. When her husband, Xie Changgeng, returns home to find his wife gone, he makes a point to go and follow her. Thus begins a long journey of fixing the mistakes made in their past lives.
The farther I got into this book, the less I thought I'd like it, but Peng Lai Ke can go ahead and count me as a fan. This book was a journey of remorse, and I feel like it's a necessary addition to the Rebirth trope. I thought that it really asked and answered the question of "how much can you blame the current versions of the people from your past life if they haven't even had the chance to think about how to hurt you?"
If you like Rebirth, Remorse, and Atonement mixed in with what is essentially a Marriage in Crisis, this book is definitely for you.
The farther I got into this book, the less I thought I'd like it, but Peng Lai Ke can go ahead and count me as a fan. This book was a journey of remorse, and I feel like it's a necessary addition to the Rebirth trope. I thought that it really asked and answered the question of "how much can you blame the current versions of the people from your past life if they haven't even had the chance to think about how to hurt you?"
If you like Rebirth, Remorse, and Atonement mixed in with what is essentially a Marriage in Crisis, this book is definitely for you.
October 23, 2025
llogical and lazy plot writing. Author should've spent more time fleshing out the relationships instead of relying on ALL THREE OF THEM - father mother and son - miraculously HAVING VISCERAL DREAMS of their past lives, thereby resolving all misunderstandings and living happily after. I haven't been so tilted by a book in such a long time,
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 7, 2022
3.5 stars. This one is super angsty and the male lead is pretty awful in both lives before redeeming himself. TW for rape/noncon.
March 2, 2025
3.5 stars. I enjoyed this - rebirth crematorium/second chance with a melancholic atmosphere. Thanks to Richa for the recommendation!
July 26, 2024
It's now 7/25/24 and just thinking about this book has my heart pounding - so ... good and bad since I can't remember that much and it wasn't smart to read both books by this author back to back but BLORP. Anyway. It was a much harder read than the marquis is innocent. ML is ... so much worse. Oof.
And the complicated relationship their kid had with ML. So much ... oof. And him being banished. I'd re-read Marquis, probably not this one.
But it's definitely a lot better than a number of other books.
C... maaaybe C-?
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PiHanJin
C10(?) tbh I’m mad she has to wrong herself & lie and say she’s unchaste
C11 goddamn their son of the past life. TBH why is it always FL who suffers 😡😡😡 shit ass ML is the one who should have to live with all that guilt forever
C20 I dunno man is it the best & safest move to send Xi’er to ChangSha? Even though FL has a ~chest code imo she seems kinda thoughtless…
C26 I’m so mad there was no blood & he feels justified. And even more mad I had to hope for blood for their first time which is so fucked up
C28 I’m not surprised but I am FURIOUS he raped her
C30 gah what an ugly confrontation. Glad she called him out on his hypocrisy though
C33 😬😬😬😖😖😖 I feel like general Yuan really fucked shit up (as did FL’s brother just ugh JFC)
C34 damn ZhaoShiTai the Qi Wang heir needs to go TF away. And thank god general Yuan was able to return home safely
C42 this fucking idiot only listening to rumors. I can’t believe yet I can he kidnapped the kid
C53 considering I’m still mad at him (I don’t trust this gentleness - the change came on too fast) I don’t mind his mom constantly cock blocking him 😜💯
C59 well I at least respect him for protecting Xi’er to/from his mom. And that that cunt whatever not cousin got exposed
C63 🫥 really wish she’d tried to convey like… Even though it’s insane why she’s like that/treats him this way cuz sometimes he does try
C67 *sigh* and he divorced her. (Fucking trash ass empress dowager - glad ML is slightly showing his claws.)
Oh shit to Qi Wang heir proposing - I HOPE SHE SAYS NO.
C68 🙄😒 her brother is a stupid pig teammate like I get it they need to avenge their aunt but this is just stupid
C69 sigh and the idiot brother has died. FL I guess is going to save her evil ass ex MIL?
C71 O.o tbh I wonder if the translator posted out of order?
C72 ooo he remembered meeting her now with the bird. (BUT I WANT HIM TO KNOW OF THE PAST LIFE)
C74 welp I’m glad he at least heard/now knows she really was a virgin
C77 FL is stupid AF (her advisors even worse) to believe that Zhao POS
C79 finally he knows the past life!
Oof c80 ML promising/vowing to make their son emperor. Blessing or curse? 🤷🏻♀️
C98 man I dunno what the kid did was super shitty but… it was cold for her to just walk away when he asked her if he was wrong
Like even if you think so or don’t know give him a *response*
C99 damn finally reunited after 3 years or so?
C100 yay finally reconciled!
C101 cute so was it true … nah he changed the story to him being eager to meet her that first time
C102 Aw extra: this third life they get it right from go
And the complicated relationship their kid had with ML. So much ... oof. And him being banished. I'd re-read Marquis, probably not this one.
But it's definitely a lot better than a number of other books.
C... maaaybe C-?
~*~*~*~*~
PiHanJin
C10(?) tbh I’m mad she has to wrong herself & lie and say she’s unchaste
C11 goddamn their son of the past life. TBH why is it always FL who suffers 😡😡😡 shit ass ML is the one who should have to live with all that guilt forever
C20 I dunno man is it the best & safest move to send Xi’er to ChangSha? Even though FL has a ~chest code imo she seems kinda thoughtless…
C26 I’m so mad there was no blood & he feels justified. And even more mad I had to hope for blood for their first time which is so fucked up
C28 I’m not surprised but I am FURIOUS he raped her
C30 gah what an ugly confrontation. Glad she called him out on his hypocrisy though
C33 😬😬😬😖😖😖 I feel like general Yuan really fucked shit up (as did FL’s brother just ugh JFC)
C34 damn ZhaoShiTai the Qi Wang heir needs to go TF away. And thank god general Yuan was able to return home safely
C42 this fucking idiot only listening to rumors. I can’t believe yet I can he kidnapped the kid
C53 considering I’m still mad at him (I don’t trust this gentleness - the change came on too fast) I don’t mind his mom constantly cock blocking him 😜💯
C59 well I at least respect him for protecting Xi’er to/from his mom. And that that cunt whatever not cousin got exposed
C63 🫥 really wish she’d tried to convey like… Even though it’s insane why she’s like that/treats him this way cuz sometimes he does try
C67 *sigh* and he divorced her. (Fucking trash ass empress dowager - glad ML is slightly showing his claws.)
Oh shit to Qi Wang heir proposing - I HOPE SHE SAYS NO.
C68 🙄😒 her brother is a stupid pig teammate like I get it they need to avenge their aunt but this is just stupid
C69 sigh and the idiot brother has died. FL I guess is going to save her evil ass ex MIL?
C71 O.o tbh I wonder if the translator posted out of order?
C72 ooo he remembered meeting her now with the bird. (BUT I WANT HIM TO KNOW OF THE PAST LIFE)
C74 welp I’m glad he at least heard/now knows she really was a virgin
C77 FL is stupid AF (her advisors even worse) to believe that Zhao POS
C79 finally he knows the past life!
Oof c80 ML promising/vowing to make their son emperor. Blessing or curse? 🤷🏻♀️
C98 man I dunno what the kid did was super shitty but… it was cold for her to just walk away when he asked her if he was wrong
Like even if you think so or don’t know give him a *response*
C99 damn finally reunited after 3 years or so?
C100 yay finally reconciled!
C101 cute so was it true … nah he changed the story to him being eager to meet her that first time
C102 Aw extra: this third life they get it right from go
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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