A Web of Intrigue in Republican-Era China! I'm Not Becoming a Warlord's Wife

【Republican-era romance + espionage + tragic ending + spy-versus-spy + multiple identities】 Su Zhiyan received a letter from home and hurried back. But as soon as she arrived, her parents tried to force her to marry a local warlord. Su Zhiyan would rather die than agree. She thought she was as good as dead, but fortune was on her side and Heaven spared her. As she spent time with Xiao Chuqin, she began to feel that he was a decent man. But those good days did not last long... The situation at home grew tense, and war raged across the land, leaving people everywhere in misery. Su Zhiyan and Xiao Chuqin each took on their own responsibilities. Su Zhiyan had wanted to escape Xiao Chuqin’s control, but even after faking her death, he still found her. Xiao Chuqin forced her to stay by his side. Afraid he might do something outrageous, Su Zhiyan pretended to obey. She kept her head down under Xiao Chuqin’s watch for several months. Only when he finally let down his guard at her brother’s child’s one-month celebration did Su Zhiyan resume her undercover mission. But things did not go as she wished. With foreign enemies invading, Su Zhiyan had no choice but to leave...