[Sweet romance + devoted one-on-one love + both leads are each other's first and only love + happy ending]
Shen Yanqing has always felt that the name “Yanqing” doesn’t suit him very well, since it makes him sound like a refined gentleman.
In reality, Shen Yanqing is a military man with a little book learning who doesn’t care for talking. His family calls him a block of wood. If his father hadn’t adopted him and given him the chance to study and learn martial arts, he’d still be an ordinary soldier with a rough streak in the barracks.
But just after Shen Yanqing returns to the capital in his father’s place to report on his duties, the gossip-loving emperor starts fretting about his marriage.
His second brother, whom he has never even met, is only too happy to join the fun and immediately asks his second sister-in-law to look into which families in the capital have daughters of marriageable age.
Shen Yanqing is just about to turn down their well-meant efforts when the emperor casually decrees his marriage at a banquet, making it a done deal.
Shen Yanqing gets a headache.
Shen Yanqing gives a bitter smile.
Shen Yanqing despairs.
But the emperor has already bestowed the marriage. What else can he do? He’ll just have to find out what the young ladies of the capital like, buy it, and send it to his future wife.
[Fair warning: The author is no good at political intrigue, and this story probably won’t have any. It’s just an ordinary little sweet romance.]
