Her Husband Faked His Death, but She Really Died

When news came that Young General Shen had died in battle, his young wife was six months pregnant.

Overcome with grief, she miscarried and nearly bled to death.

Later, despite her illness, she carved her own name onto Young General Shen's tombstone.

She even had the year and month of her death carved there.

Afraid she would die for love, I tried to persuade her to move on.

Everyone in the Shen household except her knew that General Shen had faked his death.

He had found a woman he loved at the border and was waiting for her to give birth,

so that his young wife would have no choice but to let the woman join the household.

The eighteenth time the young wife sat staring at the tombstone, I prepared to try to talk her out of it again.

But she said, "I knew from the start that Shen Zhao wasn't dead."

I froze.

"But the mission failed, and I have no choice but to die."