I Dress My General in Red

Zhao Zhaoning rose from an uncherished illegitimate son in a marquis's household to a renowned general, climbing step by step over countless corpses on the battlefield and through rivers of blood. He was a born killer, with a sinister temperament and ruthless methods. He once led a campaign that wiped out tens of thousands of northern invaders, and every city he conquered was razed. His violent and erratic conduct, once reported back to the capital, caused an uproar among the officials. They accused him of violating the laws of human nature, losing heavenly virtue, and acting without mercy. A battle in years past cost him a leg and disfigured his face. When he returned to the capital, the emperor wanted to find him a suitable match, but the noblewomen of the city all steered clear. No one dared marry him. He sneered, but in his heart he was thinking of the soft, sweet little girl in his memories, who had once tugged at his clothes through tears and said, "Brother Yuanhua, remember to come back and marry me." But seven years had passed in the blink of an eye. Looking like a walking nightmare, he had long since lost the right to ask for her hand. Then one day, the girl in red leaned over the wall of the general's residence and said to him with a grin, "Brother Yuanhua, a great general protects his country and carries the fate of its people in his heart. He stands for the nation and its people." "If the other women won't marry you, I'll marry you. How about that?" She was the yearning that gnawed at him, sinking deep into his bones, day and night. She was the sun he looked up to in countless moments on the battlefield when he was close to death. A self-effacing, devoted, pitifully obsessive general and his childhood sweetheart, a sunny girl who knows nothing about love. Warnings: 1. The male lead is no saint. He's obsessive and ruthless, so don't read if that bothers you. 2. One-on-one romance, both leads have had no previous partners. Theme: The general's cherished darling