Yet Still Left Alone

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In her previous life, Qin Qing married Jiang Cen because of an imperial decree. But Jiang Cen never acted properly and made her furious every day. He even angered her the night before he left for battle. She told him, “Hurry up and go! Don’t ever come back!”

And Jiang Cen truly never came back.

The messenger reporting his death said the general had clung to his last breath, still determined to return, before finally kneeling toward the southern corner.

Jiang Cen came from a family of military men. His elderly grandmother emerged, leaning on her cane with trembling hands, and personally wrote Qin Qing a letter of divorce. Standing before the coffin, Qin Qing experienced the agony of having her heart and bones torn apart for the first time. Her eyes bloodshot, she raised her hand and burned the paper, saying only that they had entered the family together in life and would be buried together in death. She would guard his family in his stead.

She guarded it for fifteen years.

He remained behind as no more than a wisp of a soul, and watched for fifteen years too.

When she awoke from her dream again, she had returned to her teenage years. The man was young once more, riding past her on horseback as dust swirled around them. With dust covering her from head to toe, she smiled through her tears.

Both are reborn, and they cherish each other. Sweet in both their past and present lives.

Currently updating: Big Sister

Yan Zhiyao is an orphan from a military family, fortunate enough to be adopted by the Marquis of Cheng'an and his wife. Everyone in the household respectfully calls her Eldest Miss, except for one person, who has never once spoken kindly to her.

The first time they meet, the young man bends down with a wicked smile. “Miss Yan, could it be that you were so taken by my good looks that you deliberately moved into my home?”

Then, as she glares at him in anger, he laughs. “But I advise you to give up on that idea!”

He is the young master of the marquis’s household. Yan Zhiyao knows he hates her for taking the place of his late eldest sister, so she silently puts up with his tantrums.

Little does she know that on the night before her wedding, the young master will grab her wrist and hold on tight. “Yan Zhiyao! Listen up. That man’s no good. You’re not allowed to marry him!”

At that, Yan Zhiyao simply peels his fingers off one by one, looks up, and says each word slowly and clearly: “Pei Chengyuan, in both name and principle, you should be calling me big sister.”

That night, the usually gentle Eldest Miss of the marquis’s household gets angrier than ever before and personally shoves him into the pond.

Everyone knows that the young general Pei and the newly arrived Eldest Miss don’t get along. But no one knew things had gone so far that he wouldn’t even show up for his big sister’s wedding. They say the young master had a huge argument with her and went straight back to the border.

Pei Chengyuan is gone for three years. When he returns, he has several arrows in him.

Looking at the unconscious man, Yan Zhiyao cries out anxiously, “Pei Chengyuan! What is this supposed to mean?! You think everyone else is no good, so what about you?”

After a long pause, a hand settles on her head. The man’s voice is hoarse, and even as he struggles to keep up appearances, he says, “Nonsense. The others really are no good. I’m different. I’m quite capable...”

#Probably a fake crematorium story

Theme: Do what your position requires. No matter how difficult your fate, stay true to yourself, know what you can do, and never betray your original intentions.