[An alternate setting, so don't overthink the details. 1v1 + love grows over time + a match made in heaven]
Everyone says Yan Jianing is frail and difficult to care for, a sickly beauty who probably won't live long. No son of a prominent family dares come calling to ask for her hand.
Then one day, gongs and drums filled the air as a grand wedding procession passed by, stretching for miles beneath a sea of red. When people heard Yan Jianing was getting married, they gossiped: Who could be so foolish as to become a widower so young?
Gu Hengzhou: Who dares say such things and curse my wife and me?