Bright Sun

Top scholar x husband

Though our homes may be apart,

In death, we'll share one grave.

If you don't believe my words,

May the bright sun bear witness.

The day before he set out for Yongzhou to take the imperial examinations, he had a prophetic dream.

He dreamed that he and the one he loved made the most terrible oath in the world. His beautiful young husband gazed at him tenderly and solemnly promised him:

If we cannot share a room in life, then we'll share a grave in death.

But when he returned to Youzhou, the beloved who had once been so passionately devoted to him had already married another man and become his husband.

He hated the young man to the core. He hated his family even more, and most of all he hated the man who had married him.

He sent letter after letter, as countless as snowflakes, but none were answered. He hated himself for being so useless.

Yongzhou and Yuezhou lay a thousand miles apart. The road was long and the journey slow; once they parted, they might never meet again in this life.

He took office in Yongzhou and never stopped rising, from the Hanlin Academy to the Grand Secretariat. Only years later, when he retired and returned to his hometown, did he stop again at that residence. After all those years, it had long since fallen into ruin, leaving him not a single thing to remember.

He wanted to buy the place.

An old man passing by looked at him in surprise and advised him not to buy the house. "You don't know? It was many years ago, in the thirteenth year of Chongwu, around the time the spring examination results came out. The son of the family living here passed with flying colors, but that very day they lost a young man in the household. Thinking him inauspicious, they hastily wrapped him up and buried him outside. Maybe he brought bad luck with him. After that, oh, this house just went downhill..."

He was horrified and turned to stare at the man, dumbstruck.

Then suddenly, his vision blurred.

He had lived a whole lifetime in his dream, but when he opened his eyes again, barely a moment had passed.

It had all been a dream of millet cooking.

[Reading Guide

1. No angst, only sweetness. The shou never married. They are both each other's first and only, and love each other to death.

2. The gong was a civil official in his previous life and is a military general in this one.]

Screenshot taken on 2026.4.18

Theme: May the bright sun bear witness