Qing Shan Bumped into Me

Next up: 'My Frail Cousin' is currently updating! [Main story complete] On the second day after their wedding, Commandery Princess Anyang, Gong Hua, was still lying exhausted in bed, fast asleep. Meanwhile, the new third-place laureate, Gu Qingshan, had already left to take up his post on the southwestern frontier. He would be gone for a full three years. Everyone said that because Anyang had contracted smallpox before, her once-beautiful face had become pockmarked. Gu Qingshan must have disliked her, since he wouldn't even take her with him when he went to his new post. He'd left the Commandery Princess alone in the marital bed as soon as they were married, turning her into a "discarded wife." But Anyang wasn't one to be pushed around. Gu Qingshan had barely left the city gates when Anyang came clattering after him, packed up her things, and moved straight from the commander's residence back to her own princess's residence. For three years, he sent one letter every three months. Apart from that, they had no contact at all. As time went by, Anyang gradually forgot that she was already a married woman. That is, until the couple happened to meet again one day, three years later, at a peach blossom banquet at the residence of Marquis Anbo. Anyang thought the tall, straight-backed figure looked a little familiar. Only when he slowly approached and raised his eyes, revealing his face, did Anyang finally realize: Oh, it was the seventh-rank, bargain-bin county magistrate she'd married half a century ago, back from his post on the southwestern frontier to report to the capital. Recently completed works: 'Yuan Bao'er' and 'The Blacksmith's Feisty Wife' Theme: Learn to love yourself before learning to love others.