She is the legitimate daughter of a distinguished family. Her mother died young, and her stepmother, hoping to get her hands on some silver, forces her to marry a wealthy merchant nearing fifty.
With nowhere else to turn, she is sent to the general’s residence by imperial decree.
Everyone knows the General Who Guards the North has a “savior” in his heart and has sworn never to marry.
To him, this marriage is a shackle. To her, it is her only chance to survive.
After the wedding, they treat each other with courtesy. He refuses to take a second wife and gives her the title of wife, but never gives her his devotion.
His first love returns and secretly lays one trap after another…
She escapes danger time and again, and each time sees more clearly how much he indulges the other woman.
Until the night she loses her child.
He stays by the bedside of his “sick” former love and misses her most desperate hour.
This time, she neither cries nor makes a scene. She simply hands him a divorce agreement.
She walks away for good, with a business to run and a future slowly opening before her.
Only later does the general realize…
That supposed debt of gratitude was nothing but an obsession planted by someone else,
and the one who had truly taken root in his heart was the wife he had pushed away with his own hands.
But by the time he comes to his senses and begs her to come back…
there is already someone by her side who will never let her suffer again.
Can the general still win back the woman he loves?
Well written, the plot is not muddled
I really like this kind of ancient text that is neither rebirth nor time travel. The author will update it soon [laughter]
It's pretty, very sweet, and has a perfect ending.
We're together again, finally