Respect Like Ice

As Crown Princess, Pei Yun believed she handled everything flawlessly, beyond reproach. But in the thirteenth year after marrying into the Eastern Palace, she fell into an icy lake and watched with her own eyes as her husband swam toward another woman—and suddenly felt the suffocating tedium of a life shackled by etiquette and status. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to six years earlier. She wanted to live differently, to make a change. She wanted to avoid the disaster that befell her mother and brothers, to preserve her family's glory, to keep her child from dying in infancy... But as for that dead man—bland, rigid, and dull, so set in his ways that even in bed he ins...