Knowing You, Year After Year

[Love by force] [The Pursuit After the Breakup] [Love and Hate Entwined]

A great famine struck, and people ate one another.

At the Lu family estate, fifteen-year-old Lu Yizhou took a sack of grain from his sworn younger sister, Lu Qiansheng. At her insistent urging, he fled along the route she pointed out.

Waiting for him were starving refugees who had been lying in ambush, their eyes red with hunger.

The setting sun was as red as blood. After a frenzied struggle of fighting, trampling, and looting, Lu Yizhou escaped with his life. He looked at his mangled left hand, then collapsed on the ground like a madman, laughing and crying at once.

He had always been the Lu family's attack dog, taken in and raised to serve them. He should never have let himself hope for anything.

No matter how well the Lu family's second young lady, Lu Qiansheng, had treated him, she had only been using him as a scapegoat.

Burning with hatred, he resolutely joined the army. He repeatedly distinguished himself in battle with his reckless fighting style and was promoted to the rank of battalion commander.

One day, he received orders to fight for several days until they finally captured a city. As he led his men in repairing the ruined walls, he suddenly saw a refined scholar speaking gently to a group of children. A strange sense of familiarity drew him closer. When he caught sight of the man's slender waist and the beauty mark between his brows, he froze for a moment.

Beneath the red gauze canopy, the woman before him was weeping, her words broken and incoherent.

He hated her for her "charity" back then, hated how casually she had brushed the whole affair aside, hated her for... not having him in her heart.

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Because of the famine, Lu Qiansheng became separated from her family for good. Disguised as a man, she wandered for five years before finally finding her sworn elder brother, Lu Yizhou.

After their reunion, Lu Yizhou treated her poorly. She knew what the Lu family had done to him before, so she endured it in silence, as a way to atone.

He didn't want to hear her call him brother, nor did he want her to spend any time around him.

But when she took the initiative to arrange a marriage for herself, he became like a ferocious beast unable to hide its fangs, unable to stop himself from pouncing on her.

Blurb written on 2026.5.29.

[Reading Guide]

Single-couple romance, one-on-one, happy ending.

Premise: Love life, and may every step bring greater success.