[A scheming general × an easygoing, carefree princess | Marriage before love | He falls first]
When Xie Yunlan received the imperial edict arranging his marriage, he was annotating military reports. His brush paused for a moment. A princess from Jiangnan named Jinghe? She could only be a spy planted by the emperor.
On their wedding night, he lifted her veil and saw the lustrous jade hairpin at her temple. Her hand remained steady as she offered him the nuptial wine. In an even tone, she said, “General, let’s keep to ourselves and not interfere with each other from now on.”
He had agreed. The princess was indeed “well-behaved.” After rising in the morning to pay her respects to her mother-in-law, she returned to her courtyard, where she either read stories by the window or moved a bamboo chair outside to bask in the sun. She never meddled in the household affairs. While he fought political battles in court late into the night, she would simply put out the lamp, leaving only the faint shadow of bamboo on her window paper.
At first, he paid her no mind. But gradually, something began to change.
When the household stewardess made a snide remark that she “didn’t know how to manage a household,” he dismissed her that very day. At a palace banquet, when someone laughed that she was “from Jiangnan and didn’t know how to behave in public,” he raised his wine cup and coolly glanced their way. “Who gave you the right to criticize my wife?”
One night, after working on an urgent report until late, he opened the door to find her standing in the corridor with a coat draped over her shoulders. A food box sat at her feet. When she saw him, she held it out. “The kitchen warmed up some pastries. Have a bite, General.”
Xie Yunlan took the box. His fingertips brushed hers, and the slight chill of her touch somehow set his heart ablaze with unease.
Only then did he realize that in this marriage, which had begun as a scheme, the woman who wanted nothing more than “peace and quiet” had become the one patch of calm he most wanted to protect in his life of clashing blades and political intrigue.
And she seemed to have no idea.
It's quite interesting. The author updates it very quickly, four or five times a day, so I don't have to worry about missing out on it. Moreover, the heroine is well designed and very multifaceted. I am looking forward to the subsequent plot development.
The writing is very good. The images of the male and female protagonists I have seen so far are very good. There are no surprises. It is useless to talk too much. Seeing it with your own eyes is what matters.
Although the writing style is indeed good, there are too many descriptions of appearance and scenery, too few expressions and deep meanings when talking and doing, and the plot is not strong enough.