After Marrying the Young General Who Died in Battle

In her previous life, Meng Zhaoning was gentle and virtuous. At the insistence of her adoptive parents in the Meng family, she married the newly crowned top scholar. But all he cared about was power.

Not long after the wedding, he schemed away her entire dowry. Then he brought Meng Zhaoning's younger sister into the household, doting on his concubine while neglecting his wife. In the end, Meng Zhaoning fell gravely ill and died in sorrow. She never imagined that when she opened her eyes again, she would have returned to the time before her wedding.

After being reborn, Meng Zhaoning's thoughts suddenly became clear. She knew she was frail and often sick, and could never withstand the infighting among a bevy of women, so she wanted nothing to do with marriage. She also wanted no ties whatsoever to the people from her previous life. But the Meng family kept pressuring her...

"Your younger sister is about to marry. How can you, as her older sister, still be unmarried? Zhaoning, do you want people to whisper that we don't care for you?"

"I know you're unhappy, but your sister and the top scholar are in love! He may have met you first, but who can predict matters of the heart? For your sister's sake, after all these years living away from home, don't compete with her!"

Meng Zhaoning had no intention of competing with her sister.

Just then, the Yu family proposed a marriage to her.

Yu Ye, a young general who fought beyond the frontier.

Holding the marriage contract, Meng Zhaoning thought of how Yu Ye was always away, and was delighted by the freedom that would bring. So she agreed to the match.

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On his way back to the capital, Yu Ye faced pursuers behind him and an ambush ahead. After killing the enemy soldiers, he faked his own death to lure out the mastermind.

But he heard that his newlywed wife, timid by nature, had hurried to the outskirts of the capital in the dead of night to see his "corpse," and had wept beside him for a long time.

He also heard that the newly crowned top scholar had seized the opportunity to send people to make a scene at the Yu household and insult his wife. But she had summoned her courage and stood her ground, snatching Yu Ye's memorial tablet back and clutching it to her chest.

He even heard that before they married, his wife had already declared, "A young man as brave and accomplished in battle as General Yu Ye is someone I've admired for a long time."

When Yu Ye heard all this, his ears turned bright red.

"Th-That's outrageous..." he murmured, blushing.

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One day, a young man in armor strode toward her from outside. His smiling eyes were fixed on her, and she actually backed away several steps.

"Sir, do you know who I am?" she asked, putting on a calm front and doing her best to scare him off.

"Of course I do." Yu Ye's expression held a hint of smugness. "Who else would hold my memorial tablet so tightly? After thinking it over, there can only be one person: my little wife, who knew I had died in battle and still remained faithful to me until death."

Premise: Love needs to be expressed~