I’m Carrying My One True Love’s Child, and I Married the Great General

[Bad ending + orphaned princess + orphaned husband, a general guarding the nation + a tyrannical prince’s unattainable beloved]

[Saving each other + love growing over time + ultimately defeated by duty to country and family + no one gets a happy ending]

“What are we going to do? Ai’er can’t be with you anymore.”

“Don’t be afraid, Ai’er. When you must, protect yourself and stay alive. One day, we’ll be together again.”

“Father, I counted. He has a hundred and eleven scars, and every one of them is for his country and family. You say he means to rebel. How could that be? Father, I beg you, let him go!”

“Father, your heart is so cruel! You don’t deserve to be a ruler or a father. You made him face a hundred thousand elite soldiers with just five thousand old, weak, and wounded men. Even if he had peerless martial arts, he would still be doomed. Ah… ah…”

“I love you, but I’ve already promised the rest of this life and my next one to him. Forget me, and live on.”

“Yangyang is your child. For the sake of the love we once shared, could you look after my child? You don’t have to do much. Just let them live.”

“We said we’d share a bed in life and a grave in death, stand together in life and be buried together in death. So I’m going to find him. That way, we can meet sooner in our next lives.”

To protect his wife and child, Ye Lintian set out on a path to certain death. In the end, he lay beneath a blanket of silver snow, forever separated from his wife and child.

When Yu Shenai heard that Ye Lintian had died on the battlefield, the shock brought on premature labor. Even if she were saved, she would live no more than five years.

Yu Yangsheng watched her take her own life. His hair turned white overnight. He guarded the kingdom forever and cherished her child, but she was gone from the world, in this life and the next.

Qianniutang and Lin Huanan: Witnesses to the love between the three of them.