After Being Reborn, I Clung to My Childhood Friend's Leg

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This story: [A scheming, sickly beauty x a brash young general]

The male and female leads are the same age, just a few months apart.

Zhao Ning is stunningly beautiful and comes from the powerful Changxin Marquis household, yet she marries down to Li Yanqing, a disciple of the marquis, because he once swore to search everywhere for a cure to keep her safe and well.

She is a sickly woman rumored not to live past her early twenties.

At last, her early twenties arrive. She has lived to see Li Yanqing rise to the highest ranks of government, but also hears that the entire Changxin Marquis household has been sentenced to death and that Li Yanqing has married the daughter of a traitor. In the end, she is humiliated and left on the brink of death.

Just before she dies, a man's strong arms suddenly lift her up.

His eyes and brows burn bright, like the stars she has seen through the window on every despairing night.

She hears a long-missed plea: "Sister, please, wake up."

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When Zhao Ning opens her eyes again, she has returned to the age of sixteen, after spending a year recovering at the Duke of Wei's estate.

At the entrance to the marquis's residence, Li Yanqing approaches with a warm smile.

In this life, Zhao Ning refuses to walk the path of a family destroyed and loved ones lost. Without hesitation, she slips her hand around the arm of the imposing young man beside her.

That young man is the young master of the Duke of Wei's household, who escorted her home at the time.

He is also...

The young general who, in her previous life, wore black armor and, eyes red, slaughtered the Li family to the last man.

Zhao Ning's beautiful eyes glisten as she parts her red lips. "Yao'er, I'm very sick. You'll have to carry me on your back."

Wu Yao looks back at her, a faint light shifting in his eyes. Then he gives a slight smile and slowly crouches down.

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Wu Yao is as beautiful as jade, born into a distinguished family, and has an emperor for an uncle who favors him.

Raised among a family of military commanders, he also excels in literature and does everything to perfection.

He is the moon hung high in the hearts of countless noble young ladies in Chang'an.

But Zhao Ning knows none of this. To her, he's just the younger brother who played with swords and sticks when they were children.

Wu Yao knows Zhao Ning has someone else in her heart, and he knows she loves men of letters.

But lately, ever since he escorted her home, she has started looking at him differently.

Later on...

Li Yanqing rises through the ranks to become a newly powerful court official. For Zhao Ning's sake, he loses control for the first time and openly provokes the young general, now covered in honors and titles.

"Ning'er, I've found the medicine that will save you. Leave him and come home with me."

But the Ning'er he keeps calling for is slowly peeking out from behind Wu Yao, her hair slightly disheveled and her eyes brimming with warmth.

#Forever devoted to his sister, from beginning to end

A fictional setting (Tang dynasty), with various original liberties taken for the sake of the story. Please don't overanalyze them.

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Blurb:

Yuan Qiao is sent to keep watch on a mountain by her legitimate older sister, who is secretly meeting her lover. By accident, she falls off a cliff along with Pei Zhao, her father's political enemy.

The good news: They are rescued.

The bad news: They're in the Pei residence.

Half the officials at court owe their careers to the Pei family, and the Pei clan is not to be trifled with.

At a young age, Pei Zhao has already risen to the highest ministerial position. He is also the most notorious and ruthless of the younger generation of the Pei family.

They say he is cruel and unpredictable, and that anyone who crosses him is tortured to death.

Yet every member of the Yuan family seems determined to court disaster...

Yuan Qiao's father is a man of unwavering righteousness, constantly threatening to bash his head against a pillar to prove his convictions: "I'd rather die than serve that traitor Pei!"

When they hear that the emperor has arranged a marriage between the Yuan and Pei families, her older sister weeps and wails about eloping: "How can some savage brute compare to my cousin?"

Thinking of this, Yuan Qiao, a Yuan through and through, shuts her eyes.

Being in Pei Zhao's hands would be worse than falling off the cliff and dying.

Yuan Qiao waits in despair for Pei Zhao to wake up and start torturing her, but instead she hears that he hit his head and lost his memory.

Inside the tent, the man slowly sits up. His hawk-sharp gaze pierces Yuan Qiao's heart through the gauze curtains.

Before he can say a word, Yuan Qiao's tears are already spilling over, large drops falling onto the back of Pei Zhao's hand, where the veins stand out:

"Husband, did you forget me too? I'm your beloved, the Qiao Qiao you kept begging to marry!"

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#A marriage con to stay alive, followed by a love he forces himself into

#Husband, you love me, you love me so much. Brainwashing version

Theme: Keep your eyes open and cherish the person in front of you