[A frail heiress who plays the pig to eat the tiger vs. a mad general whose secret love comes true]
“The frail heiress is forced to marry her childhood friend, a general. She plans to tear up the marriage contract to save her life, only to uncover a ten-year ledger of his secret love. It turns out this mad, powerful official has treasured me as his very life for ten years!”
Lu Zhaoning has a secret: she is living inside a story where every character is cannon fodder.
In the original story, she is a sickly girl who doesn’t survive three chapters, while her childhood friend, Xiao Jingyi, the General Who Guards the North, is pierced by a thousand arrows while saving the Crown Prince.
But when Xiao Jingyi returns victorious and trades his military achievements for an imperial decree granting them marriage, Lu Zhaoning realizes
This childhood friend seems even crazier than the King of Hell!
He waves a “ten-year ledger” at her to force her to marry him:
“When you were eight, you ate all my tribute osmanthus cakes. When you were ten, you burned an imperial painting… With interest included, Miss Lu, you’ll have to repay me with yourself.”
She tears up the ledger, but a pile of old keepsakes tumbles out of its lining
The broken hairpin is the one she lost at seven, the candy wrapper is the one she secretly slipped into his purse, and even the baby teeth she lost have been hidden away in a secret compartment.
Lu Zhaoning angrily bites his neck. “Xiao Jingyi, you’re a pervert!”
He wipes away the blood and chuckles. “You didn’t bite hard enough. The marks you left on my collarbone back then were much deeper…”
She has three powerful brothers who rule the court:
Her eldest brother smirks coldly, knife in hand. “Beat me, and the 300,000 troops on the northern frontier will be your dowry!”
Her second brother throws down ten thousand taels of gold. “The betrothal gifts aren’t enough? I’ll buy the whole street for Zhaozhao to smash things in!”
Her third brother brings over poisoned wine. “Drink this cup of ‘Laughing Yourself to Death After Three Steps,’ and only then will you be worthy of marrying me
[Both leads are each other’s one and only + beloved by the whole family + years of careful scheming + childhood friends who bicker like enemies]
