<Childhood sweethearts + possessive love + intense angst>
Everyone said Cheng Zhaozhao was a wicked stepmother, a madwoman who killed her husband and child and committed every imaginable evil. But no one knew that in her previous life, she had been gentle and devoted to the husband who married into her family, only for a century-old prefectural office to become the wedding gift for someone else’s love.
After being reborn, the widowed Cheng Zhaozhao thought she would never again meet someone who understood her. She never imagined she’d meet a young general renowned for his military achievements.
The young lord told her, “Zhaozhao, five years ago I had no choice. But I’m back now. I love only you, I want only you, and I belong only to you.”
The young man was full of spirit, his eyes alight.
His vows echoed in her ears again and again, as if carrying her back to the girlhood she could only long for but never reclaim.
Taking what remained of her already shattered self, she did everything she could to love him one more time.
But Cheng Zhaozhao never expected that in less than a year,
the peerless young man she remembered would say helplessly, “Zhaozhao, I’m getting married. I think we should just be friends.”
