A reserved general x a true beauty (both virgins) (age gap)
Liu Rao was the perfect litmus test for whether a man had any sense of propriety.
In the Great Hui Dynasty, delicate beauties were all the rage: they wept like pear blossoms in the rain and moved like willows swaying in the breeze.
Unfortunately...
Liu Rao was born with bewitching beauty. Even her tears and the way she reclined could ensnare a man. The monks at Wan'an Temple needed only one look at her to cry, "Demon!"
Every man in the capital coveted her, but they were all too concerned about their refined reputations to dare marry her.
Just when Liu Rao thought she would spend her whole life alone, her legitimate elder sister suddenly broke off her engagement.
Liu Rao saw her chance. Before her father could even suggest that she marry in her sister's place, she took the initiative and asked for the match herself.
As far as she was concerned, as long as she could get married, she wouldn't lose out as long as her husband wasn't crippled or blind.
Liu Rao even seemed to bring her husband good luck. A month after their wedding, he passed the palace examinations and became the top scholar. But she hadn't expected her new husband to despise her too, thinking her immodest and a disgrace to propriety.
At last, a man appeared in her life.
During the Shangyuan Festival, he saved her from a lecher.
When her carriage got stuck in the mud, he carried her out.
When refugees attacked, he rescued her from danger.
When she knelt before him to beg him to save her young husband, who had been framed, she pleaded, "General... I know you are an upright and kind man. Please, save my husband..."
But the man, acting completely out of character, looked down at her and said, "What makes you think I'm an upright and kind man? How do you know I don't have selfish motives of my own?"
Liu Rao's heart turned cold. So he was just like all the other men.
She stopped resisting and, with a heart dead to hope, began to undress...
But the man gently helped her put her clothes back on.
"I don't want a fleeting night of pleasure. I want you to divorce him. From now on, you will be Xiao Heming's woman."
The second male lead's battlefield of love begins. Liu Rao will become the unattainable woman he loves for the rest of his life.
Late at night on November 27, 2022, I suddenly got the urge to write a slow, sweet romance.
Theme: Cherish the person in front of you.
