After I Married a World-Weary Powerful Official in Someone Else's Place

Xiao Houji couldn't understand why he had been reborn.

He was the Marquis of Zhenbei, hailed as the God of War of the Great Yong. He had driven back foreign enemies and reclaimed lost territory.

Everyone had seen him as their protector.

But when there were no more battles to fight, no one needed him anymore.

Faced with the emperor's suspicion, his broken body, and a family shrine full of memorial tablets, Xiao Houji decided to die.

He sold his possessions, settled his old followers, and downed a cup of poison. He died... or not?

When he opened his eyes, he was back three days earlier. Maybe the poison had expired. Just as he was about to switch to a stronger dose, his steward suddenly reported:

"General, your second uncle's cousin's aunt's cousin has come to seek your protection!"

The Meng family of the capital had a marriage pact with the Marquis of Zhenbei's household.

But people said the marquis was cruel, bloodthirsty, and crippled.

The Meng family's legitimate daughter refused to marry him, so they brought Meng Qingran back from the countryside to take her place.

After transmigrating, Meng Qingran was handed a script for a substitute marriage.

She had planned to refuse, but a System called "Beloved Consort Rescue" found her and asked her to win over her intended, Xiao Houji.

System: 1. Give him a child so he can have family.

2. Give him a reason to keep living.

Meng Qingran: Why does he need a child to have family? Can't I just be his family?

So she disguised herself as a man and went to the capital to claim her kinship.

As for giving him a reason to live...

When a new cousin suddenly appeared, Xiao Houji had planned to settle him somewhere before going off to die.

But on the first day, Meng Qingran said, "Cousin, I used to slaughter pigs in the countryside. Now I want to study at the Imperial Academy."

Xiao Houji had no choice but to give up on buying poison and find a way to get her into the Imperial Academy.

A month later, Meng Qingran said, "Cousin, my classmates laugh at me because I can't ride a horse."

Xiao Houji had no choice but to give up his wheelchair, start exercising, and teach her to ride.

A year later, the steward cried out, "General, the Second and Third Princes have gotten into a fight at the Imperial Academy! They both want to come to our household to propose!"

Only then did Xiao Houji realize that his cousin was actually a girl. But the Second Prince was foolish, and the Third Prince was reckless. Neither was a suitable match.

He had no choice but to abandon his plans to choose a grave and start picking out eligible young men from the capital for Meng Qingran.

But after considering them one by one, he found that in the end, he couldn't bear to give her to anyone...

How to save a powerful official who keeps wanting to die:

Meng Qingran: Give him more things to do, and he won't have time to die.

Hou means waiting; Ji means the spring that comes when the snowstorm stops and the clouds part.

But winter in the capital was even colder than the northern frontier. Xiao Houji had thought he would never see spring,

until one day Meng Qingran appeared before him, carrying a hunting knife. "Cousin, your spring has arrived!"

Sunshine golden-retriever heroine × war-trauma hero

Theme: Live well and don't let a single spring pass you by