After Marrying the Disabled Great General

[The complete manuscript of my upcoming story, Chang'an Blossoms, is ready. I expect to begin posting it within the next two months.]

Story blurb: A conspiracy leaves Zhou Xian'en, the Great General Who Guards the Nation, with crippled legs and estranged from everyone.

Xie Ning is forced to marry him in place of her half-sister.

Rumor has it that the Great General Zhou is cruel, vicious, and volatile.

Everyone wants to see how long it will take him to torment Xie Ning to death.

But in the end, Xie Ning not only flourishes, she is cherished by Zhou Xian'en and elevated to a position beyond anyone else's reach.

She is his wife, the only light in his dark life.

Zhou Xian'en made a name for himself in his youth and was appointed Great General Who Guards the Nation, renowned far and wide.

Until his legs were crippled and he spent two years confined to a wheelchair.

A favored son of heaven, brought low into the mud.

He thought he would spend the rest of his life in that dark, damp place, never again seeing a glimmer of light.

Until one day, a woman in a wedding dress timidly pushed open his door.

Mockery rose in his eyes as he waited for her to run away in fear.

But all he heard was a soft, "Husband."

At that moment, Zhou Xian'en's heart, still as stagnant water, stirred for the first time.

[Once your wife, your wife for life]

A gentle, soft-spoken noblewoman, tender yet strong inside x a handsome, tragic, disabled great general

The female lead is gentle; the male lead says one thing and means another. They save each other and grow together.

The male lead's legs will recover. One-on-one, sweet romance, both leads have no prior sexual experience.

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[The complete manuscript is ready. I expect to begin posting it within the next two months.]

Shi Yu and Gu Chengjing spent ten years battling in court, their relationship as hostile as fire and water. Today I'd openly impeach you; tomorrow you'd trip me up behind the scenes.

Everyone assumed the two of them, both past twenty and still unmarried, had devoted their entire lives to figuring out how to bring the other down first.

Eventually, the two of them stopped fighting.

Because the brilliant Minister of Justice and the battle-hardened General of the North Guard ended up in the same prison cell.

Looking back on the ten years she had served as an official while posing as a man, Shi Yu lay on a pile of straw, lost in thought. Suddenly, she turned to General Gu in the next cell and said, "We fought for so many years. What was the point?"

He kept his back to her, standing straight. At her words, he only gave a noncommittal snort.

Shi Yu swung her legs and continued to herself, "If there's a next life, I'll stay home, embroider, raise chickens, grow vegetables, and enjoy myself. I've spent this fleeting half-life crawling through muddy pits and lounging amid riches. I have no regrets."

She blinked and looked squarely at the old rival she'd spent half her life fighting. "Still, I did you wrong, General."

She'd kept him so busy competing with her that he'd reached his thirties without having time to take a wife.

The man standing with his back to her remained ramrod straight. Shi Yu never thought he'd respond.

But a moment later, his cool, low voice sounded, and his sharp eyes beneath his tousled hair turned toward her. "You did do me wrong."

You wronged me once, and it lasted a lifetime.

Unfortunately, his life was too short for him to tell her everything.

Gu Chengjing was driven from the capital in disgrace after his family was falsely accused. That was the very day Shi Yu placed third in the palace examination, basking in her success.

He still remembered the young woman on a black-maned steed, dressed in crimson official robes, smiling brightly. She was the most radiant flower on Chang'an's streets.

Even then, Gu Chengjing worried: If he came back too late, would someone else claim this Chang'an flower first?

If he could do it all over, he would have made a move sooner.

Reading guide:

1. A story about a rival who's secretly in love with me. One-on-one, both leads have no prior sexual experience.

2. An amateur writer tackling political intrigue, but the romance is guaranteed to be fresh!

Theme: Because we had each other, we both became better versions of ourselves.