My Childhood Friend Insists I Don't Love Him Anymore

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The main story was completed on March 8, 2026. The early chapters were too rough, so I'm revising them bit by bit.

P.S. This was my first novel, and it's not very good. The pacing has some serious problems, but feel free to read it if you don't mind. It's an embarrassing old work. I can't bear to look at it now, and thinking about it makes me want to slap myself twice. Thank you to all the readers who offered criticism or encouragement!

July 31, 2026, second edit: Oh my goodness, this really is so awful. I can't even read it myself. I was going to revise it, but a few seconds after opening it, I got goosebumps all over... Please don't read it, everyone (but thank you to all my readers anyway x v).

[Childhood sweethearts + marriage before love from the heroine's perspective + possessive pursuit from the hero's perspective]

A naturally oblivious [face-blind], easygoing, adorable girl x a proud, conceited young general who talks himself into things

Everyone said that Young Master Zhao was the most outstanding man in the capital. His only flaw was his terrible temper. No one understood why he had married a concubine-born daughter of the Jiangnan Shen family.

Only he knew that at the age of seven, when he climbed a tree to pick a pomegranate, he had left his heart in the neighboring courtyard.

Shen Lianyi's favorite thing to do each day was sit in the little courtyard, watching the clouds drift and birds fly by as she counted the days until the pomegranate tree growing over the wall from the neighboring courtyard blossomed and bore fruit.

Until that day.

"W-Wow, what a huge pomegranate!"

The boy in the tree wore a bright red robe. A mark on his forehead burned like a flame.

From then on, he took her over walls, teased dogs, caught fish, and climbed trees. Every day of their childhood was colored by the other's presence.

They parted when they were eleven. Shen Lianyi's family suffered a great upheaval, while Zhao Su went to the battlefield to pursue his ambitions.

When they were nineteen, the war was over, and Zhao Su was overjoyed to use his military achievements to marry the girl he loved.

But...

Didn't we agree to be together for life? How could you fall for your cousin?

Reading tips:

1. I really love revising, but the content itself is settled. I'll mainly adjust the wording and fix a few plot holes.

2. Well... Basically, it's a story about how a naturally oblivious girl is a proud man's kryptonite, and the male lead talks himself into things and gets jealous of himself ( ˘ω˘ )

3. It's a fictional setting! A fictional setting! A fictional setting!

4. The age difference is one year.

5. Her liking her cousin in the blurb is a misunderstanding.

6. The male lead is a little edgy as a kid.

7. The author's terrible at logic and plot. This is basically just a sweet little romance. I'll do my best to write it well TT

Theme: Hold on to your original aspirations amid a world of twists and turns