When we first met, Shen Zhao was not yet the Marquis of Zhenbei.
In the royal paddock, he fished out a little girl who broke her knee from the bushes and said, "Don't be afraid." The little girl didn't see his face clearly, she only remembered the scar.
Ten years later, he exchanged half his life's military service for a marriage certificate and married Yanzhao, an orphan girl whose family was full of criminals.
Both the government and the public speculated that it was a political deal. Yan Zhao also guessed.
On the wedding night, he slept beside the couch, and the tea he was handed was neither hot nor cold, just right for his mouth.
At the noble lady's banquet, someone ridiculed her for being rude and unworthy of the Marquis of Zhenbei. He held her shoulders in public and said, "When will it be your turn to tell whether she is worthy?"
The family laughed at her for being unethical in wielding the knife. He walked into the garden with the knife and stood beside her: "My wife has her own character."
Yanzhao thought he was just guarding the honor of the Hou Mansion until rumors of "Kefu" spread throughout the capital.
He ordered the whole city to ban the discussion, turned around and said to her: "I have achieved half my life's military achievements because of you."
An old handkerchief slipped from her sleeve, which was left in the paddock when she was thirteen years old.
Only then did she realize that that person had never forgotten her.
For ten years on the battlefield, drinking blood on the tip of a knife, he kept this sentence in his heart for ten years:
"Don't be afraid, I'm here to pick you up."
Later, when the border war broke out, she raised food for him in the capital, captured details, and washed away grievances; he defeated the enemy on the front line, defended to death, and held on to her handkerchief to endure the desperate situation of food shortage.
The court was strife, the prince was framed, and the civil servants were forcing the palace. They were separated by a palace wall and joined forces with a tacit understanding to nail the traitors one by one on the evidence of their crimes.
Sitting around the fire on a snowy night in his later years, he fully told the story of his heart-beating moment and his silent waiting for five years.
Two-way secret love × marriage first, love later × family and country intrigues. No house fighting, no female rivalry.
