After I Mistakenly Married the Tycoon from a Period Novel

Cheng Jing is the youngest girl in the Cheng family. With three older brothers doting on her and her father backing her up, she has always lived up to her name, making trouble wherever she goes. They call her "Troublemaker Jing."

When twenty-year-old Cheng Jing starts falling in love for the first time, her father worries some unreliable young man will whisk her away, so he takes it upon himself to find her a dependable match.

She hears the man is stationed in the northwest with the army. He's outstanding in every way, though a bit old, apparently twenty-six?

Cheng Jing believes in choosing love for herself. She doesn't want a blind date, much less to marry an "old man" six years her senior. But then she hears his bride price has already arrived...

To put an end to his hopes, she decides to take the initiative, head to the northwest, give him a good dressing-down, and force him to break off the engagement!

After transferring from train to bus and bus to car, Cheng Jing endures a long, bumpy journey. Just as a tall figure finally approaches, she raises her hand to slap him, only to collapse into his arms the next second from severe altitude sickness...

When he hears Cheng Jing came to break off the engagement, he readily agrees.

But the conditions in the northwest are harsh, and heavy snow blocks the mountain passes. Unable to go home, Cheng Jing has no choice but to stay for the time being.

After more than a month together, Cheng Jing decides this "old man" is actually pretty great.

He's tall and handsome, and more importantly, he cherishes her with all his heart.

Cheng Jing changes her mind. When the snow lets up, she plans to tell her father, who's coming to pick her up, that she'll agree to the marriage.

But when Cheng Jing stands in front of her father holding her sweetheart's hand, he is so furious that he drops right onto the ground.

Father Cheng: You, you, you! How could you marry him?

Cheng Jing: ??? Didn't you want me to get married?

Father Cheng: I wanted you to marry Han Xiangyang, not Xiangyang!

Cheng Jing: ...Then who is he?

Father Cheng: Their family is our sworn enemy!!!

After his father passed away, Xiangyang devoted himself to the country and became a proud soldier stationed at the border.

After turning down matchmaking arrangements from relatives for several years in a row, his great-aunt threatened that if he didn't come home for New Year again, she'd send a young woman over in person.

He thought she was joking. He never expected to see a girl in red shoes that day, and her father turned out to be his family's sworn enemy.

The moment he heard she had come to break off the engagement, Xiangyang immediately said, "Fine." After all, he thought this marriage was ridiculous too.

But on the night the snow was about to stop, she asked softly in the dark, "Actually, I wouldn't be against us dating. How about... giving it a try?"

Xiangyang's Adam's apple bobbed. "Okay."

Reader's guide:

1. Monogamous romance. The male lead is eight years older.

Theme: Learn to be tolerant.