Another Man's Concubine

Brooding, beautiful, powerful, tragic hero x resilient little ray of sunshine

(The heroine is the hero's biggest career fan. The hero suffers not only from skin hunger, but also from heart hunger and soul hunger for her!)

[Blurb]

Everyone knows that at a young age, Liang Ju reclaimed lost territory and achieved extraordinary feats. The emperor had no higher title left to grant him, so he bestowed the title of Grand General. He is the renowned God of War of Nan Shuo.

Yet the woman this first-rank official is about to marry is another man's concubine.

Rumors run rampant through the city. Everyone secretly speculates what kind of woman could turn the Grand General against his sworn brother, and how she won his favor.

In the southwestern corner of the Grand General's residence, there is a courtyard like an upside-down birdcage. Everyone in the household calls it the Cage Courtyard.

After he pulls away, Yang Hongyu buries herself in the pillows and blankets, almost suffocating. "What will it take for you to let me go?"

"Marry me and share my life and death." Liang Ju lifts her face and licks away her tears.

She was once a nobleman's daughter, a girl who rode out in fine clothes. Now she has fallen to this.

Yang Hongyu can only blame herself for being too kind. These cold-hearted people don't deserve the world's kindness.

For seven years, a woman he had seen only once tormented Liang Ju with dreams of desire.

When he unexpectedly runs into her in the capital, he thinks he must rid himself of this obsession.

At first, he treats her coldly and gives her a hard time, determined to cut off the desire that keeps fading and returning.

Before long, the man imprisoning her wants to claim her name and control her heart, too.

Who could have guessed that a great fire would break out on their wedding night?

Liang Ju has seen countless corpses and has always looked upon them with indifference, never so much as trembling.

But when he sees the woman he loves turned into a corpse with his own eyes... Liang Ju vomits blood.

Once, the undefeated young general said, "I didn't join the army to reclaim our lost land. I just wanted to kill, without restraint and in broad daylight."

Later, holding the person he'd lost and found again, he says, "You want to reclaim our lost land? I'll go with you. Life and death are in Heaven's hands. We'll go as far as we can."

For the rest of his life, he lives only for her.

[Reader's Guide]

1. 1v1, both leads are each other's first and only.

2. A real love triangle and a real redemption arc.

3. Set in an alternate Southern Song dynasty.

Theme: You must save yourself from the trials and tribulations of this world, again and again