He Thought He'd Been Struck by a Love Curse

A literary take:

Spring sunshine warms the city, while frost and snow chill him to the bone.

He watched the man's figure disappear into the northern frontier's yellow sands, and suddenly remembered the red candles burning through the night long ago, and the tearstains at the corners of his eyes.

A seemingly aloof but actually tsundere prince gong X a middle-aged marshal shou who can do nothing but give in to the gong

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A plain-language summary:

The gong marries the shou for certain reasons, but remains cold toward him.

Later, the gong and the shou go through many things together. Gradually, the gong falls for the shou and starts treating him better.

But then someone tells the gong that the shou used a scheme years ago to force him into the marriage, and that the shou carries a love poison.

So the gong believes that he fell in love with the shou because the shou planted the love poison in him.

But in truth, the shou never had the heart to do such a thing back then.

Guaranteed not to be abandoned.

Content warning: The shou wears women's clothing.

Male-wife trope.

Theme: A romance born from a twist of fate.