(The full novel is complete and awaiting release)
Thanks to his wife's arrangement, Pang Xiangzhen was fortunate enough to marry a gentleman who could read and write and was well versed in literature. Though her husband did not love her, he never spoke harshly to her, and she was quite content. Unfortunately, in those turbulent times, he died among the refugees.
Daring not to stay, she assumed someone else's identity and took the man she'd rescued with her to Qinzhou. At last, she escaped the mire, became a maid, and had enough to eat. The man was handsome and strong, and though he was simple-minded, he treated Pang Xiangzhen as the person closest to him, always taking care of her. She began to think about marrying again...
But she never imagined that, after recovering his memories, the first thing the man who had been by her side for so long would do was betray her. He exposed her as a runaway slave, and her masters, who were visiting Qinzhou, seized her and took her back. She and the unwanted child in her womb became prisoners.
What she never imagined was that the great man whom her masters treated with obsequious smiles had exactly the same face as her husband, whose body had never been found.
"Side Story"
One night several years later, the drunken Zhuang Hua was fast asleep, unaware of anything. Zhao Jin, who had traveled through the night to find her, took her hand and coaxed her: "If you won't come with me, there'll be no empress at my coronation. I'll become a laughingstock throughout the land."
After much hesitation, Pang Xiangzhen finally gave in and agreed to take their daughter with her and return to Chong'an.
The next morning, Zhuang Hua woke with a splitting headache and discovered that his wife and daughter had left without a word. In a fury, he rode day and night to the imperial palace. On the way, he imagined a thousand ways to make her beg him in tears. But when he finally saw her, he only gave a cold snort and angrily slipped a heavy gold bracelet onto the wrist of the woman who guiltily lowered her eyes.
The heroine is timid, gentle, and cries easily.
An alternate world, with a melodramatic and bittersweet plot, some angst, childbirth, and a happy ending.
The male lead is sexually inexperienced. Expected pairing: a cold-hearted, aloof beauty x a kind-hearted, delicate beauty x a vicious, murderous war god, a dog after losing his memories and a wolf before.
Theme: Be brave
