The Marriage Decree

An alternate world. Women do not disguise themselves as men, and women and men enjoy the same inheritance rights, the right to enlist in the army, and more. A sweet, lighthearted short story to lift your mood, sweetness level: five stars. Cover layout authorized by the artist Zhuo Susu. Thanks to my friend for helping with the cover! . Love at first sight, loyal-dog general pursuer x beautiful, wooden-hearted darling of a landowning family, recipient. Five-year age gap. Le Jiu is the youngest daughter of a landowning family. At fifteen, she is kidnapped by bandits. Though she is rescued, her reputation is ruined. The villagers can't help saying what a shame it is whenever they mention Le Jiu, but she doesn't think it's a shame. First, she is still chaste. Second, someone is willing to marry her. The person who rescued her from the bandits when she was fifteen said just three things to her: I'm a woman. Wait for me for three years. You're beautiful. I want to make you my wife. . By the time eighteen-year-old Le Jiu has waited long enough for the family cat to have three litters of kittens and for those kittens to grow into fat cats, the person who kept saying she would marry her still hasn't returned. She thinks: Could I have been tricked? . When Yang Nian is twenty, she falls in love at first sight with a girl who hasn't quite grown up yet. From then on, day and night, all she can think about is bringing the girl home as her wife. Her best friend advises her: "Forget it. How can a woman marry another woman? People will laugh at you!" Yang Nian doesn't care. In the blink of an eye, the three-year deadline approaches. The brave and battle-tested General Yang earns merit protecting the emperor, then awakens from a serious injury to find that the emperor has granted her an imperial decree allowing her to take a wife. . Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.