The Cannon Fodder Matriarch Just Wants to Escape

Crown Prince Gu Jinzhou was sent to another country as a hostage by the emperor when he was ten. Anyone who could grow up unscathed in a den of wolves was no ordinary person.

From then on, he walled off his heart and met everyone with hostility and distrust. Having seen too many women with hidden agendas, he had never been interested in women. Then, on the frontier beyond the passes, he encountered Xie Wanning, who was disguised as a man. For some inexplicable reason, he took a liking to her and trusted her. She became the one friend he could confide in, someone with whom he could talk about anything.

After Xie Wanning pulled him back from the brink of death, he began to feel something for her. He wanted to get closer to her, to be intimate with her.

One day, he discovered that she was a woman. By a twist of fate, she married someone else. He thought he would spend the rest of his life missing out on the woman he loved, but then she divorced her husband...