Snow-Fried Tang Pear (GL)

They said that person was a brilliant physician, but had a strange disposition and never treated people lightly.

Her father had always felt guilty about the chronic ailment she'd suffered since childhood, so he paid a hefty sum to send people in search of that physician. Strangely, word had it that the physician was impossible to find, and even if found, all efforts were in vain. Yet her father truly did find them. The physician said, "I want neither gold and jewels nor power over the world. I want a quiet, ordinary life from here on, and I want you to give your daughter to me in marriage."

But that person was a woman. How could one woman spend a lifetime with another?

"The wind and snow are so fierce outside. Why did you come out?" That person, her expression unreadable, took the shawl from her own shoulders and draped it over the woman's knees, chiding her softly. "Don't come out like this again. You'll catch a chill."

The care this person showed her was almost too attentive, but she couldn't bring herself to ignore all those little gestures and details. She could only answer quietly, "I won't do it again."

And so, word spread that the female son-in-law of the founding general's family was ruthless toward everyone else, but tender and attentive toward her own wife. Everyone said the general's daughter was lucky, unaware that she was always thoroughly dominated by that person...

Theme: A kindred spirit