[Period setting + sweet romance + follows him to the military + rugged man vs. pampered young lady + five-year age gap]
The Gu family fell from grace, and the young lady who had been spoiled since childhood became a capitalist everyone denounced overnight. To spare their daughter the hardship of being sent to the countryside, her parents remembered the childhood betrothal they had arranged for her and asked Gu Qing to marry her fiancé and join him with the army.
When they met, the Gu family’s young lady had taken a train for two days and one night to reach the Northwestern Military District. Looking out at the endless Gobi Desert, the pampered girl’s eyes turned red.
Lu Shi Yan looked at the delicate young lady. “This is what the Northwest is like. If you can’t handle it, I’ll send you back.”
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Unbeknownst to everyone, Lu Shi Yan had been secretly in love with Gu Qing for a long time. He knew they were engaged through a childhood betrothal, but he had never brought it up. Only after the Gu family was investigated and their home sealed did he receive a letter from Shanghai, in which the Gu family asked him to honor their engagement.
No one knew how happy the letter had made him. But the moment he saw the young lady set foot in the Northwest, he regretted it. The Northwest was poor and harsh, and this delicate young lady didn’t belong here.
Someone saw the usually stern, unsmiling Colonel Lu crouching in front of the young lady, apologizing to her in a gentle voice.
“I was wrong. I promise I’ll listen to you first next time.”
The young lady looked at him with red-rimmed eyes. “I told you to stop, but you wouldn’t. This is all your fault.”
Later, everyone in the Northwestern Military District knew that the usually stern Colonel Lu treated the young lady at home with astonishing tenderness.
