Miss Xu, I Hear You Love Me

Tags: Republic-era setting, sweet romance, personal growth. A heroine who grows stronger by the day versus a scheming, devoted young marshal.

When they first meet, she is a dancer and he is a young marshal. He assumes she is wanton, never realizing that he is the one indulging himself. Later, at the birthday banquet of Miss Xu, word spreads through the whole city that she is in love with a certain young marshal. Everyone thinks it is absurd. But then the young marshal himself goes to the Xu family to ask for her hand. He gently lifts Xu Yunyi’s chin. “I hear you love me.”

She can still vaguely remember his words: “When I come back, don’t be one of this troubled era’s painted beauties anymore. I’ll give you a home.”

Xu Yunyi was born and raised in the secluded inner quarters. Before she turned nineteen, she had never seen anything that clashed with her beautiful world. Later, she discovered that the world was not beautiful at all: there was war, smoke, death, and injury. She was once afraid, but in the end she refused to become part of a decaying society. Resolute, she became a female military officer. After meeting her at nineteen, he transformed his belief in protecting the country into a vow to protect both her and the country.