The Little Brother's Prophecy Comes True: The Stoic Young Marshal Falls Hard

Jiangcheng, the sixteenth year of the Republic. Shen Yuan, heiress to a textile mill, is publicly jilted by her fiancé, who claims she is “too plump to be a suitable match.” Overnight, her family’s business is swallowed up by its partners, her father is imprisoned, and she is reduced to hauling sacks at the docks with her five-year-old brother, Shen Xiaozhou. Plump and radiant, Shen Yuan catches the eye of a gang on her very first day at the docks. The man who rescues her is Pei Xichao, the twenty-eight-year-old young marshal of the Jiangcheng Military Governor’s residence. He is ruthless, and half the city’s business leaders rise to their feet when he enters. He makes her an offer: become his wife in name only and help him fend off marriage alliances from all sides. Once it’s done, she can leave freely. Shen Yuan agrees. But once she moves into his residence, she discovers that his idea of “in name only” comes with far too many rules. What she wears, what she eats, whom she meets, and when she goes to bed, everything has to pass his inspection. She protests. He remains unruffled: “You signed the contract. It’s all there in black and white.” And Shen Xiaozhou’s sleep-talking always comes true. That night, he wakes up crying in his sister’s arms. “Sis, that Uncle Pei... he’ll be shot next year. Don’t let him go to the train station.”