The entire novel is being revised and new chapters are being stockpiled. Since I'm stockpiling the whole novel alongside the one next door, His Silver Is All With Me, and life has been busy, updates will probably resume at the end of the year or early next year. Note left on 2026/10/19.
Also known as: The Young General Rises in Status Thanks to His Child. This is probably the everyday story of a somewhat silly young couple: a bickering pair who are always squabbling. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your favorites~ [Heart]
As a child, Tong Yuying often wondered: If her imperial father loved her mother so much, why did he hate her elder brother?
Back then, the emperor would hold her and her mother in his arms, his face full of remorse. "It's because Father loves Mother too much. He can't stand seeing your brother compete with him for her affection."
Tong Yuying wasn't very quick-witted, so she was fooled.
After her mother died and her crown prince brother was deposed and exiled, she fell for her stepmother's provocations the day after her wedding. She lost her composure and tore away the veil of shame. Her imperial father became a different person.
It was all a lie.
The supposedly deep love between the emperor and empress, the supposedly loving father-daughter bond: all lies. The favor she received simply because she was a girl, while her brother was less fortunate, was a lie too.
Her father's gentle, jade-like face twisted into a hideous expression, and from then on it haunted her dreams.
So when her new husband told her, "I love you," the fear in her heart reached its peak in an instant.
"Get out." For the first time, she lost the dignity expected of a legitimate princess of Great Chu, and her eyes reddened.
"Aren't you so good at pretending? Why don't you keep pretending to be gentle?" Whenever she couldn't win an argument with him, she would demand angrily.
His answer was, "Yunjia, from now on, your husband won't pretend anymore." He looked at her, speaking each word slowly, his gaze unabashedly tender and intimate.
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When Zou Muyun pledged his allegiance to the crown prince, the prince assessed him: "This young man is exceptionally talented, a born general. But he's too single-minded. He shouldn't stay in the capital for long."
He knew he wasn't especially clever, particularly in the capital, where almost everyone was sharp-witted.
But he couldn't let go of the little princess, who was just as lacking in smarts as he was.
When he learned the crown prince had been deposed, he hurried back to the capital, hoping to become her support.
But at the victory banquet, before he could voice the marriage proposal he'd been rehearsing for days, disaster struck her.
There was no cure for the love poison she'd taken. Fortunately, when faced with a choice between "chastity and survival," she chose the latter.
With the beauty in his arms, he told himself to hold back, to be gentle, and never let her see the unpleasant parts of his nature.
But things didn't go as planned.
He began expressing his love to her again and again, no longer hiding his true nature. He would trade barbs with her and watch as her eyes reddened and her body trembled with anger.
It was all right if she didn't believe him. He would tell her for the rest of his life.
Synopsis written on 2026/5/5, screenshot saved.
Theme: Love means accepting one another.
