Fourth Marriage

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Zhao Peng was reborn three times and married Qin Shuhuai three times.

When he was still a hostage at the age of sixteen, she married him as a princess, and he had her killed;

When he became a prince at the age of twenty, she married him as a female general, and he had her mu*dered;

When he became a duke at the age of twenty-five, she married him as the prime minister’s daughter, and he poisoned her to death.

She swore she would never marry him again.

When she opened her eyes again, Zhao Peng had become the grand princess who had assisted her younger brother in ascending the throne, had been widowed for ten years, who was infatuated with her extraordinary brother-in-law, and also the only opponent that the current regent Qin Shuhuai respected and did not dare to touch.

Faced with this identity, Zhao Peng was so excited that she couldn’t help but cry bitterly.

She finally doesn’t have to marry him in this lifetime.

Qin Shuhuai, who had held onto Zhao Peng’s memorial tablet for six years, discovered that this widowed grand princess looked very much like his wife who died young.

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四嫁
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Recommendations
The Grand Princess (1)
Recommendation Lists
  1. Seeing You Again (Multiple ReBirth/Transmigration)

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Agreta1
Agreta1 rated it
May 22, 2025
Status: c22
Dropped at Chapter 22 – Disappointed Despite the Promising Premise

I went into this book with decent expectations. The premise sounded interesting, and I'm familiar with the author’s previous works. She’s known for a flair for drama, intriguing setups, and complex characters. That said, I also expected a few plot holes or convenient plot devices - she has a history of them, especially cropping up around the midpoint. But in this case, the illogical elements hit way earlier, and I just couldn’t keep going.

The biggest deal-breaker for me happened early on:... more>> the FL, who is established to have martial arts skills and isn’t portrayed as naive or helpless, is force-fed a poisoned pill by the ML. Out of nowhere. No buildup, no believable justification, just boom-he poisons her. And the most baffling part? Her reaction is practically nonexistent. She goes back to him, no confrontation, no attempt to find an antidote, no inner struggle-nothing. It’s as if the whole event didn’t matter.

That moment snapped all immersion for me. It felt like the story wanted a dramatic hook but didn’t care about character consistency or logical cause and effect. I can suspend disbelief, sure-but not when the characters act like strangers to their own motivations and experiences.

I might’ve been able to tolerate some of this if it came later in the book, when the plot was more developed and stakes were clearer. But so early on, it just felt lazy and frustrating. I got too annoyed to keep reading. <<less
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Serendipity_22
Serendipity_22 rated it
November 18, 2024
Status: Completed
Somehow I have really mixed feelings about this one.

I wanted to like it so bad. The premise is intriguing and the author has written some books I enjoyed a lot. But... somehow I just didn’t click with it.

The FL Zhao Peng was married to the ML Qin Shuhuai, while she was the princess of the Yan Kingdom and he a pitiful hostage crown prince from the Qin Kingdom. This marriage ended tragic, with Qin Shuhuai seemingly poisoning Zhao Peng on the road back to his kingdom. She gets subsequently reborn... more>> again and again, always as his bride or wife (she never tells him that she’s his wife because duh - she thinks he killed her). All of these lives end with her being mu*dered.

The story begins when she’s reborn again, but this time as the only sister of the only remaining prince of the Qin Kingdom. She then meets her former husband again. This time he’s the all-powerful regent and she’s the elder sister of the puppet emperor.

The FL has long grown weary of revenge and wishes to either return to her homeland or help her younger brother to securely accent the throne.

While interacting with her former husband she starts to realize, that maybe not everything is as it seemed and that there are still things to uncover...

Both the FL and the ML have been trough a lot. when they were young, they only had each other to rely on. But it some ways, they were and are too deeply hurt and damaged by what they experienced to truly open up to each other. This lead to a lot of friction and fights, especially since they both never had any guidance on how to trust and navigate healthy relationships. Deep down both of them only wish for a normal, save and mundane life, yet circumstances trapped them in palace and political intrigue.

The FL masks her weakness and insecurity with boldness and carelessness. As long as she doesn’t act like she cares, nothing can hurt her. Her experiences made her always expect the worst of others, yet she can’t really go against her true, kind nature, seemingly trapping her in the same cycle of betrayal again and again.

The ML is someone who’s rather cold and closed off to those he considers „outsiders“ (or old-fashioned), yet incredibly indulgent and also insecure about the ones he cares about. One he thought he lost the only good thing in his life, he doesn’t care about anything but revenge.

This book is about trust, responsibility, companionship and devotion. About revenge, about sins of elders and family.

I think my biggest problem with this book is that
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both the ML and the FL are supposed to be these super intelligent and scheming people who have so much power (at least the ML) but they just... don’t. They fall for the most obvious schemes and traps, everything gets dragged on endlessly. They are always surprised by unfolding events, either don’t really know how to react or react in the most obvious and unsophisticated way. Like at the beginning, when the ML tried to kill the FLs brother-in-law, when the FL finds the body of his „second wife“ or later when the war breaks out, or when the FL gets arrested. Every single time it’s like „oh, they probably don’t have any evidence/ can’t to anything“ and then it’s like „oh, so they do have evidence... let’s bargain.“ and if that’s not working oh well... Their spies and guards are constantly caught of guard, they are not informed and quite frankly come off as weak. Which is frustrating in a book about seemingly powerful characters.

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Still, the book made me laugh and it made me cry (especially the FLs relationship with her original/Yan Kingdom brother). Therefore it’s a 3-Star read for me. <<less
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