Childhood Sweetheart Marries Someone Else [Reborn]

[A minister steals the emperor's wife! Childhood sweethearts!]

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Young Marquis Shen comes from a prominent family and commands a powerful army. He is the most dazzling and brilliant young genius in all of Great Wei.

To his surprise, someone breaks off their engagement with him.

The one who ends the engagement is Jiang Huaiyan, the legitimate son of Prime Minister Jiang. Though fair and beautiful as jade, he is famously sickly, coughing up blood every few steps and as frail as a willow in the wind.

No one but Shen Guanyue is willing to marry him.

Furious, Shen Guanyue charges over with his spear to demand an explanation, but all he gets is one reply:

"I want to be empress. You can't give me that, Marquis."

His childhood friend breaks his heart and ends their engagement, entering the palace to become empress, above all others.

The boy whose proposal was rejected falls from the clouds into the mud. His family is confiscated, he is exiled, and he loses everything, vanishing from sight forever.

No one knows that Jiang Huaiyan once died.

In his previous life, his family was framed by the imperial household. Three entire branches of his family were implicated and wiped out.

Shen Guanyue voluntarily gave up his marquis title to save Jiang Huaiyan's life.

The imperial household even showed him the great kindness of allowing him to collect his family's remains.

At the execution grounds, he bid farewell to 481 members of his three family branches. Not one survived.

After returning home, he fell gravely ill and died.

Reborn, Jiang Huaiyan wants only to kill the emperor.

But he never expected that the boy he had abandoned would one day train troops and horses, point his sword at Jinling, and fight his way back!

Young, triumphant general gong x stunning, brilliant, sickly beauty shou

Important:

1. [A Minister Steals the Emperor's Wife!] is an angst-filled, melodramatic romance.

2. Age gap: the gong and shou are childhood friends, but the shou is older, having been born a few years earlier.

3. Both are virgins, 1v1, happy ending.

Theme: May the years be peaceful and the land remain safe.