Chasing Jade

[Originally titled The Marquis's Wife and the Pig-Killing Knife]

After her parents pass away, her childhood sweetheart breaks off their engagement, and her relatives plot to devour her inheritance. For the sake of her five-year-old sister, Fan Changyu decides to take in a live-in husband.

She sets her sights on the man she rescued. He is covered in wounds and owns nothing, but at least he has a handsome face.

The two quickly strike a deal: she will take him in while he recuperates, and he will pretend to marry into her family to help her keep her property.

Once the family business is secure, Fan Changyu is about to write the divorce papers as promised when the court starts recruiting soldiers for war. Her husband is seized and taken away, never to be heard from again.

The next time she sees him, he is lying in a tent for the wounded, covered in blood. His bloodstained face is as handsome as ever, but his low-ranking soldier's uniform is in tatters.

Seeing how hard life in the army has been for him, Fan Changyu's eyes turn red. “Stop being a soldier and come home. I'll raise you on the money I make killing pigs.”

The man squints and coughs up blood. “You were going to divorce me...”

Fan Changyu's eyes brim with tears. “Not anymore, not anymore!”

[Bonus Scene]

Xie Zheng, Marquis of Wu'an, rose to fame in his youth. His military exploits were unmatched, and he was made a marquis for his service before turning twenty. No one else in the Great Yin Dynasty could compare. He was also renowned for his iron-fisted, ruthless command of the army.

Recently, however, the soldiers have found their marquis acting strangely.

He no longer sleeps in his own command tent, but instead squeezes into the cramped, dilapidated tent for the wounded.

He has a gaping wound in his body, yet while he would usually be back on his feet in two or three days, this time he has been lying there for ten days or even half a month without getting better.

The military strategist who returned from visiting him clicked his tongue. “If someone keeps wiping him down and feeding him medicine while he's lying there, of course his wounds won't heal!”

Only when their marquis's never-before-seen wife, afraid her sickly live-in husband would die on the battlefield, sneaked into a tattered soldier's uniform and went in his place, did their marquis, who had been “seriously wounded” and bedridden for days, leap up in shock and hurry after her in armor, leading his troops.

The setting sun was blood-red, and geese cried across the vast sky.

Fan Changyu, cleaver in hand, had just cut down an enemy general. She narrowed her eyes as she watched friendly troops approach in a cloud of yellow dust.

She tugged at a nearby soldier and asked, “That general charging at the front on a tall horse, wearing bright armor with qilin-shaped shoulder guards... why does he look a little like my husband?”

Soldier: ...Could it be because he is your husband?

A sweet, silly girl who's fiercer than she looks, a little ray of sunshine VS “That woman is so vulgar” and “Why doesn't that woman like me?” Marquis Xie

One-on-one romance, sweet story

Note:

1. One of the supporting characters transmigrates, so this is categorized as an ancient-to-modern transmigration story.

2. A slow-burn romance, with a gradual build-up.

3. The male lead is sharp-tongued and proud. His childhood left him emotionally damaged, obsessive, and desperately starved for affection. He's a little yandere, so readers who don't enjoy this type of male lead should take note.

4. There's a hidden-identity plot. The heroine is descended from a loyal official who was falsely accused. She later goes to war and enters the court to clear her family's name.

5. The heroine was born in the Year of the Tiger. Her adoptive father gave her the courtesy name Shanjun, meaning “tiger.” I started writing this in 2022 and finished the main story in early 2023.

6. Thank you to everyone who's read this. The story still has plenty of shortcomings, and I'll keep working to improve. I hope you enjoy reading and don't argue!

My completed novels are also available to read:

Book Transmigration: The Villain's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife: An engineering graduate tries to stay alive by clinging to the villain.

The Empress Only Wants to Eat and Wait: A civil engineering workhorse dreams of doing nothing but gets forced to work every day.

The Demon Emperor Is Fierce and Adorable: The Demon Emperor has lost his temper yet again.

Food story: The Little Chef at the Border Pass: The story of a prince with an unusual sense of taste.

Transmigrating into the Crown Princess of a Fallen Kingdom: I think my husband is sick!

Theme: Stay true to yourself and grow toward the light