Handsome, virtuous male lead x scheming female powerbroker
Lu Cuhe was the younger sister of the Noble Consort. Still young, she had already risen to the position of deputy commander of the Imperial Guards and earned the emperor's deep trust.
When the evidence in the Zhao family's corruption case was conclusive, she led the Imperial Guards to search their estate. Unfortunately, the Zhao family was holding a wedding, and an insider had leaked the news, allowing Zhao San to escape in advance.
In her desperation to flee, Zhao San even abandoned the man she had yet to marry.
Lu Cuhe had heard that the marriage was forced. She lifted the groom's veil with her sword, her gaze darkening. Sure enough, he was a beauty with tearful eyes, so delicate and pitiful that anyone would want to protect him.
Shen Qingyu had lost both his parents when he was young, and his aunt had taken his family estate. He had no choice but to live under her roof, dependent on her.
Because of his handsome face, his aunt had long wanted to use him to curry favor with the powerful. When the Zhao family's daughter took a fancy to his looks and said she would marry him, his aunt seized the opportunity.
Even though he was unwilling, they carried him into the Zhao household by force.
On his wedding day, he had just changed into his bridal gown and had not yet gone through the ceremony when someone lifted his veil. The woman before him held a mandarin-duck jade pendant that matched his own, so she had to be the Zhao family's daughter who had forced him into marriage.
After looking him over for a moment, the Zhao family's daughter told him he could leave.
But going back to the Shen family meant certain death. Besides, his future wife's looks and bearing were nowhere near as bad as the rumors claimed.
After thinking it over, Shen Lanqing decided to stay.
The emperor had not issued an explicit order for her death, and Zhao San could not understand why Lu Cuhe was so determined to kill her. They had no grudge against each other.
Until the day she saw the husband-to-be she had abandoned again.
The man was nestled in Lu Cuhe's arms, his slender fingers resting on his slightly rounded belly as he softly called Lu Cuhe "wife."
Though the wife who had originally chosen to marry him had suddenly grown distant, Shen Lanqing remained determined to follow his wife wherever she went. He did his best to be a gentle, virtuous husband and give his wife children.
When he was four months pregnant and the baby was stable, his wife took him back to the capital to visit her family.
Only then did he learn that on the day he had gone through the wedding ceremony, he had mistaken his wife for someone else.
★ Female doting on male, healing, male pregnancy
★ Both are each other's only one, happy ending, no swapping or reversing couples.
Theme: When the wind is strong, we'll ride the waves and sail straight across the vast sea.