[Scheming from the start x naturally straightforward, pure sweetness without angst]
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The Yu family's daughter is blessed by fate and protected by the Heavenly Dao. Every transmigrator wants to steal her good fortune, only to discover that her husband seems pretty formidable.
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General Yu holds the tiger tally and commands the empire's armies. Enemy spies often try to get close, but he always sees through them.
His youngest daughter, Yu Xuemi, is fifteen years old. Born prematurely and often sick, she was once declared by a fortune-teller unlikely to live past twenty. She is the most doted-on child in the family.
Because of her grandfather's dying wish fifteen years ago, Yu Xuemi was betrothed to the eldest son of the Zhong family before either was born.
The Zhong family comes from a line of imperial merchants. The eldest son went missing as a child and wasn't found until he was sixteen. The newly recovered legitimate heir had been raised by a tutor. He was mild-mannered and courteous, a true gentleman.
The day the eldest Zhong son visited the general's residence, Yu Xuemi saw him through a curtain and was quite surprised.
Some time earlier, she'd sprained her ankle on a spring outing, and he'd carried her down the mountain.
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Yu Xuemi noticed something: ever since her fiancé came back, her luck seemed to have worsened. One problem after another kept cropping up, and every time, her fiancé saved her.
He was always holding her in his arms as he said helplessly, "Miss Yu, please be careful."
Yu Xuemi felt a little embarrassed. She had someone she liked, and it wasn't him, but she couldn't tell him that. So every time, she could only show her highest gratitude in the way she felt most heartfelt: by giving him a kiss on the chin to thank him.
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After spending two years together, Yu Xuemi and her fiancé married. They were deeply in love, and her husband was gentle, capable, and skilled at managing the household. What he loved most was holding her in his arms and kissing her in his study. They were perfectly suited to each other, and he doted on her even more than the elders in her family did.
But her husband was always in contact with outsiders for no apparent reason. They called him "Your Highness," and he seemed to be much more than she had imagined.
He schemes and lies to her, only to have his heart melted by a kindhearted beauty. A purely sweet romance.
Reader's note: An imaginary historical setting with many original details. One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship.
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