After Learning I Was Getting Married, My Childhood Friend Who Fled the Wedding Because He Thought I Was a Fool Panicked

Because I was born slow-witted, Shen Zhizhou still refused to marry me in the tenth year after we were betrothed.

Only when the general's daughter had gone far away to the borderlands and he was confined to the manor did he suddenly coax me with a smile.

"A Li, if you climb up and get the betrothal jade pendant from that tree for me, I'll marry you. How about it?"

I happily agreed and followed his instructions, feeling my way up the pear tree step by step.

Just as I slipped and fell into the pond, I heard the servant assigned to watch him panic and call for a doctor.

Meanwhile, Shen Zhizhou fled toward the unguarded back courtyard, muttering disdainfully,

"A fool like her thinks she deserves to be my wife?"

When I woke from my unconscious state, I tried to sit up in a panic, only to accidentally touch the jade pendant at someone's waist.

I stroked the familiar pendant and caught the unfamiliar scent of green pears on him, then timidly asked,

"My parents said the person holding the jade pendant is A Li's husband."

"Are you A Li's husband?"