Entwined in Spring Light

A ruthless warlord in chaotic times × a delicate woman standing in for another

At the end of the Qiyuan era, the terrifying “Butcher,” Liang army commander Shen Zhaonan, led his troops through Mo City. Everyone said he wore a mask because his face was so frightening. Suspicious and bloodthirsty, he forced the prefect to offer up his precious daughter in exchange for a few days of peace.

This “precious daughter” was strikingly beautiful, with fair skin, a graceful figure, and a seductive charm. After several days of passionate entanglement, she unsettled his heart of stone.

On the day the army set out, Shen Zhaonan took the beauty with him. But they were ambushed by the enemy, and in the chaos, she escaped without a trace. When he returned to Mo City and held a blade to the prefect's throat, he learned that she was Qin Qisi, the widow of the prefect's late son.

Qin Qisi had been taught by her mother from childhood to marry someone with whom she could grow old in devoted harmony. But her wicked stepmother tricked her into marrying the prefect's son as a good-luck bride.

Half a year later, her husband died of illness, and her mother-in-law shut her away in a cold, desolate courtyard to waste away. Then she heard that the prefect's daughter refused to serve the ugly general, and became her stand-in, because the young woman was willing to free her from her cage.

But the man insisted that she stay by his side. She had escaped the wolf's den only to enter the tiger's lair, until a clash of blades rescued her from its jaws.

She eventually settled down in a small town, where she heard news of him everywhere:

“General Shen defeated a larger force and took the enemy commander's head.”

“General Shen conquered more than half the realm.”

“General Shen took the divine capital of Luo'an and will soon ascend the throne.”

All Qin Qisi knew was that her beloved, who had gone off to war and traveled the four corners of the realm, would soon return to farm and weave by her side.

But that day, fine carriages and splendid horses filled the space outside her home. He still had that handsome, gorgeous face and shy smile. “Qisi, I've come to take you and our son back to the palace.”

Everyone in the realm knew the emperor had been turned away at the door by a country wife.

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