Bunny-like heroine x gentle, sunny hero | The marquis is the second male lead
A full-on groveling romance: he chases her with every last scrap of his dignity, but still can't win her back.
[Note: The heroine isn't a virgin, but the hero is. If you don't like this, please steer clear!]
The heroine is sweet and lively, delicate and frail, skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and kindhearted. She knows nothing of the power struggles in the capital and has no idea how to fight palace intrigues.
Wen Ruan, daughter of a military family, used to visit the capital with her mother while she was still alive, staying for a while and managing the family's shops there.
When she was eight, she met a handsome older boy. They were both just children and knew nothing about romance. Wen Ruan only knew that he had told her, “Wen Ruan, when you grow up, I'll marry you.”
After that, she and her mother traveled back and forth between the borderlands and the capital every year, until her mother passed away. Then she stayed away from the capital for three years.
When they met again, everything had changed.
Wen Ruan: “If I'd known there was someone else in your heart, I, Wen Ruan, would never have set foot in the capital again.”
“But you didn't tell me. You married me and brought me into your household, then refused to trust me and let others trample on my dignity.”
“Wei Zheming, I despise you. After this parting, may we never meet again, in life or in death.”
By the time the young marquis understood his own heart and wanted to win her back, he found that she had already become another man's wife.
Wei Zheming: “I'm a complete bastard. I let down the girl who had eyes only for me.”
“I thought I still had a chance. It wasn't until I saw her rounded belly that I understood: once some people leave, they never come back.”
Hero: “She is the love of my life, the one wish among all my countless hopes that I can never have, a ray of light in my dark life.”