A Cold-Faced General's Handbook to Raising His Wife

[A sincere, soft-hearted heroine who grows over time x a renowned general who dotes on his wife without limit | Reborn | Sweet romance | Nurturing | Low self-worth heroine x older man who guides her | Wolf and rabbit | The former fiance gets his comeuppance]

Spring of the twelfth year of Yonghe, under a dreary drizzle.

The Marquis of Xuanping's residence was decked out in lanterns and decorations. Yun Chu's handsome, refined fiance was waiting outside the manor as well.

Yun Chu, who had always meekly endured whatever came her way, dismissed her maid and timidly called out to Cui Shu, who was covered in the scent of blood. "Uncle."

Cui Shu: "Are you afraid of me?"

Yun Chu pressed her lips together. Her voice was very soft, yet utterly firm. "I'm not afraid."

In her previous life, she had been a noble young lady, but her birth father ignored her, her stepmother was unkind, and her fiance had someone else in his heart. Her life had been very difficult.

Only after she died of illness and became a lonely ghost whom no one cared about did Cui Shu, whom people called bloodthirsty and cruel, return to the capital and settle her grievances one by one.

She remembered that Cui Shu was her mother's younger brother, though they were not related by blood.

When she was little, she had once called him "Little Uncle."

And now, just as before, while everyone praised this seemingly perfect match, he asked, "Do you want to marry him?"

Yun Chu shook her head.

"Then you won't marry him."

The cold-faced general, who had seized great power at a young age and whose name was said to frighten children into silence, smiled faintly as he said this.

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After leaving Yanjing, Yun Chu was raised well by Cui Shu.

He taught her to draw a bow and shoot arrows, to read people's hearts, and to boldly tell others what she wanted.

But he never imagined that one day Yun Chu would openly tell him she was going to marry.

Cui Shu looked at the young woman, whose beauty had blossomed all the more, and his gaze darkened.

If she was going to marry, why couldn't it be him?

1. The leads are not biologically related, with a ten-year age gap. The romance begins after the heroine turns eighteen.

2. Written to suit the author's tastes, romance-focused, essentially an eight-parts-sweet, two-parts-bittersweet doting romance, with a little nurturing.

3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. The heroine has a former fiance; the hero is devoted to her alone in both body and heart, in reality and in name.

Theme: Loving someone is like tending a flower.