[Delicate, soft-hearted, scheming crybaby x guiding, secretly passionate, rugged man]
[Marriage first, love later | Size difference and age gap | Self-conquest | Pretending to be proper]
Li Tingyue was a princess who had been pushed to the margins. Nobody cared whether she was happy or sad. After a serious illness, her disposition changed.
The girl who had once been composed and easygoing began to cry all the time, unable to hold back her tears. Fortunately, nobody cared about that either.
People only remembered her when they needed her to do one of two things:
First, take the Eighth Princess's place in a political marriage on the grasslands.
Second, after she fell into the water and was rescued by General Lin, she ruined the Eighth Princess's engagement to General Lin and married into the general's household in her place.
The three of them were truly fated to cross paths. General Lin had just driven back the enemy, making it unnecessary for a woman to be sent off in a political marriage, when this whole mess came along.
Everyone in the capital knew that General Lin was stern and cold as ice. He had no women around him, and nobody knew whether he understood what went on in the bedroom. They just hoped he wouldn't leave the princess to spend her nights alone.
On their wedding night, Li Tingyue cried bitterly, as though someone had died...
General Lin didn't force her to do anything. He simply treated her with the respect of a courteous husband.
As time passed, everyone in the capital said General Lin was impotent, and Li Tingyue started to worry. How could she let her husband suffer such humiliation?!
Well, actually, her mother and mother-in-law were both putting pressure on them, and she couldn't bear to spend her nights alone, either.
She gritted her teeth and knocked on the study door, but nobody answered, so she pushed it open herself.
As soon as she entered, she saw the man practicing a new move he'd learned from the army: bulging muscles, thick thighs...
Li Tingyue was so frightened that she quickly shut the door!
But how strange. The wind was howling in the late autumn, and the man who should have been practicing in his study was outside in the courtyard instead. And somehow, she kept running into him...
The hero's point of view:
The rarely seen princess had become his wife, and Lin Xiyi didn't know how to face her.
She was always crying. Perhaps she already had someone in her heart?
One day, she suddenly barged in while he was training. The panic on the woman's face was impossible to hide. Her eyes were red, and tears glistened there, making him want to look at her a little longer.
Had that man ever seen her like this?
For some reason, Lin Xiyi felt a little jealous of the man the princess couldn't forget.
Reading Guide:
1. The heroine is very delicate and weak. Her scheming side leads her to do some bad things.
2. Both leads have only ever been with each other. The hero's engagement to the Eighth Princess was just a rumor.
3. Set in a fictional historical world. Please don't scrutinize the details.
Theme: A woman's growth
