On the day when the Zhu family collapsed, Zhu Qing'an's sweetheart Shen Yu had to leave for the border immediately because his filial piety period had not yet expired and the emperor's order was difficult. Shen Yu could only ask his friend Xie Lin to marry Zhu Qing'an.
"Please protect her for me for a while. It only takes two years. Once my filial piety period is over and the border is a little more stable, I will come to pick her up immediately!"
Zhu Qing'an became Xie Lin's wife in name only. She was grateful and kept her duty in mind.
But the rules of the high-level courtyard were strict, her mother-in-law thought her family was in decline, and her sister-in-law laughed at her for trying to occupy a magpie's nest. She kept in mind this fake marriage and that she was a temporary guest. She swallowed all the trouble and carefully hid her bright and lively self.
Zhu Qingan only hoped that Shen Jue, who was far away at the border, would come back soon and take her away.
But she gradually realized that Shen Jue's letters were getting fewer and fewer, and her return date was pushed back again and again. And her nominal husband, Xie Lin, looked at her with darker eyes every day.
Until she discovered the truth and ran away in a hurry, but fell heavily on the stone steps on a rainy night.
When he woke up again, all the past events were forgotten, and he saw a man with deep eyes and great power sitting beside the couch.
He told her gently: "Qing An, I am your husband."
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Xie Lin accepted the request of her friend and married the daughter of the Zhu family who was in trouble.
He gave her status and protection, but also gave her indifference and distance.
But she was too quiet, not as lively and bright as the spies said, and loved to laugh and make trouble.
She never complained when being deliberately made things difficult for her, and she just hung her head in silence when she was ridiculed.
For the first time in his life, he stood up for "one of his own", and he became addicted to it from then on.
Seeing Zhu Qing'an's eyes light up again because of his protection, and seeing the cunning smile she showed when she occasionally relaxed, Xie Lin's cold and hard heart actually gave birth to greed that she shouldn't have.
This greed grows wildly in the dead of night: Why should he make wedding clothes for others? Why is the wife he is marrying thinking about someone else?
As a result, he arranged the transfer orders at the border and carefully screened the news from Beijing.
With his own hands, he completely cut off all the possible paths of the bird that wanted to fly away, one by one.
What kind of fake marriage?
He is the one who marries the matchmaker, he is the one who writes the Three Books and Six Etiquettes, he is the one who brings flowers and candles in the wedding room, and it can only be him for the rest of his life.
Two years later, Shen Jue finally stood in front of Xie's house, covered in dust, and asked Xie Lin to release her.
Xie Lin's tone was calm, but every word was like a knife: "General Shen, who do you want to pick up?"
He turned sideways to reveal the scene behind him. Zhu Qingan was leaning against the door, unconsciously protecting her slightly bulging belly with her hands, looking over with a completely unfamiliar look.
At that moment, Shen Jue's world collapsed silently.
Demining
1. The male protagonist is not a gentleman: he is deeply scheming and designs his brother to win the one he loves.
2. The heroine does not have emotional entanglements with two male characters at the same time
3. Robbery, brothers turning against each other, and the heroine having amnesia.
4. Add more as you think of it
2025.12.13
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