I Am the Empire's General's Wife Who Died Young

Before Shen Jin left for the battlefield, Xu Ning saw that the military offered marriage subsidies and wanted to marry him.

He refused, and the two had a huge argument.

On the day he left, she secretly went to see him off, but had the misfortune of running into the Zerg.

When she opened her eyes again, ten years had passed.

The Empire had won the war, and the medal ceremony was being held in the same square where the troops had set out all those years ago.

Standing at the very back of the crowd, she rose onto her tiptoes and saw a man onstage in a sharp military uniform, cold and imposing.

It was Shen Jin.

Her foster brother had become the youngest general, revered and admired by all.

And she was as invisible as if she'd drunk a potion.

No one could see her.

What a life, so transparent you could see right through to the end.

She had nowhere to go. After thinking it over, she decided to return to the old house in the slums.

She'd assumed the place would be empty.

But when she opened the door, Shen Jin was sitting on the sofa.

He looked a little thinner than he did on the screen.

His shirt sleeves were rolled up, revealing scars of varying shades on his arms.

He glanced toward the door, his expression calm and his eyes utterly unchanged. Then he made a phone call and asked someone to come replace the lock.

“Yeah, the door's too old. It opened by itself.”

He shut the door and walked right past her.

Just like everyone else in this world,

he couldn't see her either.

In the end, Shen Jin replaced every door and window in the house.

The new front door was so sturdy that, after she got in, she never managed to get back out.

Matchmakers came by one after another, all turned away at the door.

She heard that Shen Jin had married ten years ago, but his wife had died in an accident.

He'd been deeply devoted to her and had never remarried.

...No wonder he was so angry back then.

So he'd already had someone he loved. He could've just said so. Then we wouldn't have had to argue.

At last, someone came through the door: the Third Prince, her ex-boyfriend.

He wasn't there to find a match, but to invite Shen Jin to his engagement banquet.

Xu Ning looked at him several times, surprised.

When he got up to leave, she was feeling cooped up, so she quietly followed him.

The moment she stepped outside...

Someone suddenly grabbed her wrist.

The sun blazed overhead.

Shen Jin stood in the shadow of the doorway, backlit, seeming to be surrounded by a cold, damp rain.

“Where are you going with him?”

The man's lips curved slightly. His voice was cool, his eyes unnaturally dark. “If you wanted to go out, why didn't you tell your big brother?”

Slow, wooden girl x obsessive foster brother

* Foster siblings. The leads are not related by blood.

* A romance about falling in love again, with a bittersweet flavor. The author is indulging their tastes. The Zerg are just part of the setting and won't feature much.

* I've run out of ideas for the original premise, so feel free to follow or save the story.

Theme: Love can cross the boundaries of life, death, and time