[Complete manuscript finished] Marriage first, love later + amnesia and a pursuit to win his wife back + mutual devotion
Yan Qiqi, a romance-novel addict, transmigrates and discovers she is now the illegitimate daughter of a marquis's household. The Emperor has decreed that she marry the orphaned son of a general's family, the capital's most notorious playboy. When her legitimate older sister hears the news, she can't take it and runs away, leaving Yan Qiqi with no choice but to take her place. Yan Qiqi keeps calm: so be it. According to the novel's setup, her husband can't really be a playboy, can he?
The real deal. A grown-up child. Huo Changle: “My dear wife, what are you saying? Ba ba ba...”
[The poetic version]
She married him with a fantasy for a script,
Saw him clearly through the despair of a world falling apart,
And finally, battered by wind and rain, fell in love with the real him, pure-hearted and wholly devoted to her.
He met every one of her secrets with tenderness,
Grew through desperate trials until he was worthy of her clear-eyed heart,
And transformed from a playboy by default into a general's husband who could protect her and give her a lifetime of peace.
