The General’s Darling

“Forced possession” “Marriage before love”

When Li Mengjiao sees the man who ruined her reputation, she reaches for her sword, ready to kill him.

“If you kill me, someone will be left a widow.”

Li Mengjiao turns the sword on herself and presses it to her neck. Before she can act, she hears his cold voice: “If you die, I’ll make the entire Li family join you in the grave.”

Her fiancé Liang Chi, who had privately pledged himself to her, comes looking for her. Li Mengjiao thinks he has come out of true love, but instead he takes the gold and silver she gave him and turns around to marry someone else.

“I love you, but the Liang family can’t be left without an heir,” Liang Chi pleads. “One day, my parents will accept you.”

Li Mengjiao waits day after day for the man she loves, only to have that devil demand her every night.

“You’re my brother-in-law. Why are you doing this to me?” she cries, resisting in despair.

“Be good. Your sister is pregnant.”

Later, her sister writes a letter of divorce and gives it to Li Mengjiao. “He has always loved you. He only married me out of gratitude. My love has come to take me away.”

Only later does Li Mengjiao learn that he was the one who made her see Liang Chi’s true colors, that he stopped her from walking into a fire pit, and that he had loved her all along…