“The Xiao family’s daughter must marry.”
An imperial edict forces Xiao Zhining, daughter of a family of military officials, to marry Xie Linyuan, the great general who guards the nation and the man whose proposal she once rejected. Rumor has it that this cold-blooded general has killed countless people and bears an irreconcilable grudge against the Xiao family.
On their wedding night, beneath the glow of red candles, he grips her chin and sneers. “Miss Xiao, I have never forgotten the humiliation of that broken engagement.”
She meets his gaze stubbornly. “If you want revenge, go ahead.”
She doesn’t know that a portrait of her older sister is hidden in a secret compartment in his study, that he sits alone in the courtyard night after night, gazing at the moon and thinking of someone, or what bloody truth lies behind this marriage.
When a sharp blade pierces her shoulder, when the truth tears through her heart, he casts aside his helmet and armor before an army of thousands, all to save her life.
“Xiao Zhining, you may hate me, but you have to stay alive to do it.”
