Zixuan, the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites, is forced to take her younger sister’s place in marriage and become the wife of the cold-faced general Xiao Heng.
On their wedding night, he lifts her veil and sneers, “You’re not her.”
She hides the poisoned jade pendant and lowers her eyes obediently. “You’ve mistaken me for someone else, General.”
He spends his nights in his study, while she uses her medical skills to cure an epidemic across the city.
The night the frontier sends word of an emergency, he returns gravely wounded. She removes a poisoned arrow and saves his life.
When the Old Madam accuses her of adultery, he pulls her into his arms before everyone and declares, “In this life, I, Xiao Heng, will have no wife but her.”
Later, when her younger sister kneels and begs to return to the household, he blocks the gate with his sword. “You think you’re fit to set foot in the General’s residence?”
