As the most favored legitimate daughter of the Shen family, Shen Muzhi wanted to marry a gentle man of letters, not a general like Li Yulian who was covered in wounds and bloody hands.
As the son of General Zhenbei and the eldest princess, Li Yulian wanted to marry a woman who could watch the battlefield side by side, not a delicate woman like Shen Muzhi who was even afraid of riding a horse.
The elder's words "we are of the same family" tied the two "unmatched" people under the same roof. But when she was grinding it for him, she accidentally touched the callus on his palm; when he broke off the first peach blossom from the branch for her and awkwardly put it in her hair - that initial disgust quietly turned into an uncontrollable heartbeat.
Chang'an's first marriage turned out not to be a marriage to fame, but to a person whom she despised at first but could never let go of.