Kissing My Childhood Sweetheart

[The farming novel Homegrown Sweet Peach is now available: rugged man x lovely young wife] When she was little, Jiang Ruyuan loved going to the General's residence across the street to play with Sheng Jing. Her favorite thing was watching him practice swordplay. Dressed in black, his blade flashing with cold light, the dashing young man always made her clap and cheer. Her mother teased her, "Since you like Brother Jing so much, how about marrying him when you grow up?" Jiang Ruyuan scrunched up her little face. Brother Jing could only be Brother Jing. Why would she have to marry him? Later, Sheng Jing went off to war and didn't return for two years. When he came home victorious, she went to welcome him. Countless handkerchiefs and flowers were thrown at him, but he didn't even glance at them. Amid the sea of people, his gaze found hers, and his cool, reserved features instantly lit up. Jiang Ruyuan, now a graceful young woman, gazed at the boy sitting tall and proud on his horse, blushing again and again. Was that really her Brother Jing? * After two years at war, Sheng Jing had only exchanged letters with her. As he watched her childish handwriting gradually turn into elegant calligraphy, he couldn't help imagining what she looked like. Had her round little face grown into a delicate, lovely one? On his very first day back in Chang'an, he couldn't wait to ask for her hand in marriage. * When they were little, Sheng Jing was always followed around by a tiny girl with crescent-shaped eyes, sweetly calling him Brother Jing. When they grew up, Sheng Jing was always followed around by a young woman with lips as vivid as ripe fruit, sweetly calling him husband. 1. Noble family's legitimate daughter x young general 2. The story begins when the heroine is five; three-year age gap 3. A warm, slow-burn childhood-sweethearts romance ★ Homegrown Sweet Peach: Blurb ★ Ming Tao spent fifteen years as a fake heiress. The day her true parentage was revealed, she was forced to become a concubine. In a panic, she fled into the mountains. Just as a wolf was about to tear her apart, a tall man snatched her from its jaws and carried her home on his back as she sobbed and gasped for breath. The man didn't ask where she came from. He gave her a cool glance and said, "No crying." Ming Tao was so scared she fell silent. She hadn't expected that the man was simply bad with words, and would treat her so well. In winter, when she was cold, he warmed her bed. In summer, when bugs swarmed around her, he swatted the mosquitoes for her. She really did stop crying. There were no secrets in a farming village, and the neighbors all came to tease her. "Tao Tao, when are you going to marry Li Qingzhou?" Ming Tao said nothing, blushing, her heart full of joy as she waited for the day she could marry him. But as she waited, how did she go from being a hunter's wife to a general's wife? * Li Qingzhou had lost his memory. He casually rescued Ming Tao, who had also "lost her memory." Feeling they were in the same boat, he kept her by his side and often reminded her that she could go home whenever she remembered who she was. The first time, Ming Tao tugged at his clothes and said timidly, "Don't send me away. I don't have a home." The countless time, Ming Tao sat in the seat of honor and said with a grin, "This is my home!" Later, he was the first to remember his past. He thought, at last, he could give her a home. [Bonus Scene] Li Qingzhou hated women crying most of all, but the little girl he took in cried nonstop. She cried when she broke a bowl, when there were mosquitoes, and when she got cold. To make her comfortable, he had to take care of everything himself. Eventually, she finally stopped crying. Until their wedding night, when tears streamed down her face again. As he kissed away her tears, he spoke in a restrained voice: "Tao Tao, cry out loud. I like listening to it." Theme: Cherish the one by your side and remain faithful to them for life.