The General's Guide to Spoiling His Wife

#Sweet, vivacious beauty who makes the first move x cold-faced, pure-hearted general#

One-on-one, marriage before love, sweet romance, happy ending

The eldest daughter of the Yun family was a beauty with delicate features and captivating charm. At the spring banquet, her performance of Snow in Sunny Spring dazzled everyone and made her famous throughout the capital. When she came of age, suitors lined up at her door.

Unfortunately, her father set his standards too high and politely turned them all down.

Everyone wondered who would be lucky enough to marry such a beauty.

After a great victory in Yangzhou, the Luo army returned to the capital. On that day, an imperial decree arrived at the Yun residence, announcing a marriage.

The beautiful young lady was to wed the cold-faced God of War, rumored to be heartless and stained with blood.

The whole capital was in an uproar.

"General Luo may be invincible in battle, but he has no idea how to treat a woman, and he's away at war most of the time. She'll be a widow in all but name."

"They say the young general is built like a bear and terrifyingly fierce. Even crying children behave when they see him. Someone as delicate as Miss Yun... tsk, tsk."

"Hmph, what good is beauty? She's still marrying someone worse than our husbands."

"After a year of hardship, the title of the capital's most beautiful woman will surely go to someone else."

Yun's father slapped his thigh, full of regret.

If only he had known, he wouldn't have been so reluctant to accept the Duke of Zhang's proposal. Then his beloved daughter wouldn't have ended up like this.

In the seventh year of the Shenghe era, some people in the capital were disappointed, some felt sorry for her, and others gleefully waited for a spectacle.

Then came the Lantern Festival the following year.

When everyone saw the young lady again, she wasn't the thin, miserable figure they had expected. Though now a married woman, she had lost none of her beauty. Her figure was fuller, her features as lovely as a painting, and she looked like a celestial maiden, ethereal and otherworldly. Look closely, and she had gained a new allure.

Then they noticed the handsome young man standing close by her side, never leaving her for a moment.

His brows were frosted over, and his cold face kept others at a distance, yet he watched over her at every turn. He was afraid she'd stumble or bump into something, and worried she might get bored. The people around them watched with envy.

As everyone wondered who the young man was, they heard the beautiful woman lower her gaze and call sweetly, "Husband."

*

His father was a humble soldier devoted to defending his country, and he died on the battlefield. His mother was a gentle, faithful farmer's wife who followed him in death that same year.

Luo Junxing lost both parents at a young age and was adopted by the widowed General Luo, who had no family of his own.

The old general's lifelong ambition was to reclaim lost territory. Luo Junxing inherited that ambition and spent years fighting on the battlefield.

He once thought he would die in battle.

Until the day he returned to the capital and an imperial decree arrived unexpectedly, assigning the delicate daughter of the Grand Tutor to him as his bride.

Though he knew nothing of love, he understood that a woman who remarried would face great difficulty and endless gossip. So he had no choice but to put aside his decision to give his life to the battlefield.

The day before the wedding, the young general, who knew only how to fight, gathered all his officers at his residence. His face was stern. After a long pause, he said in a chilly voice, "All of you are married. I'd like to ask your advice about something."

"After taking a wife, how should I treat her?"

After a brief silence, the officers felt a weight lift from their hearts and answered in unison:

"Dote on her!"

"Give her whatever she wants!"

"Treat her like your own life!"

--- Please add my ongoing novel, The Substitute Bride's True Story, to your reading list ---

Pei Ningxuan had no intention of wasting his time and energy until the day he learned that his princess consort was an impostor.

The deeper he investigated, the more he discovered that she had no known origins and no traceable past, as if...

Ye Yu: "I fell from the sky!"

Fallen from the sky...

A fairy? A demon?

Pei Ningxuan discovered she was neither.

She was his creditor.

If he hadn't owed her a debt from his past life, why would every joy and sorrow, even his heart, be bound to her?

If he hadn't owed her, how could she be generous and kind to her maids, repay outsiders' kindness a hundredfold, and freely help the beggars on the street, yet remain unmoved by him, neither warm nor cold, impossible to melt or warm?

Pei Ningxuan wasn't afraid of repaying his debt. He was afraid that after deciding to spend his whole life making amends, his little creditor would only want to settle their accounts and part ways.

*

In her previous life, she transmigrated and met Pei Ningxuan, only to meet a tragic end.

Reborn in her mother's womb and transmigrating for a second time, she somehow ended up entangled with him again.

An Ziye finally understood: perhaps he was the final boss on her path through life. Unless she defeated him, no matter how many times she started over, the outcome would be the same.

Later, when she finally cleared that stage, she looked back at the proud man on horseback, his eyes quietly reddening for some reason. She knew she wouldn't change her mind, but couldn't help wondering if she really was too heartless.

She vaguely remembered the young emperor from her previous life looking at her the same way.

[Reading guide]

1. He pursues her. Marriage before love, with a long road to winning her heart.

2. To be added...

--- Coming soon: Beauty Behind the Curtain ---

#Clear-headed, scheming beauty x refined, pure-hearted, ailing gentleman#

Marriage before love, one-on-one

There are two wealthy families in Liangzhou: the Songs and the Lus.

Their children were to marry, securing both a business alliance and a happy match.

The Song family's young lady was a breathtaking beauty, gentle and kind.

The Lu family's young master was handsome and graceful, refined and mild-mannered.

Everyone sighed, "This is sure to be a match made in heaven."

Unexpectedly, the Lu family's business faltered and the family fell into decline. The Song family seized the opportunity to break off the engagement.

*

Her father valued profit over loyalty and broke the betrothal arranged when she and her fiancé were still in the womb.

Hearing that her fiancé was clever, Song Hua planned to help him in secret, then discuss marriage again once he had restored his family's fortunes.

But her fiancé was too proud. He left without a word, and she never saw him again.

Later, her father decided to marry her off to a notorious playboy in town.

On the wedding day, the newly appointed prefect arrived with a marriage contract in hand. Citing the broken engagement, he had her father and the playboy arrested and thrown into prison.

Only then did Song Hua learn that the prefect was the young master of the Lu family, and that he had returned to avenge the way they'd kicked him while he was down.

To save her father, she went to plead with him in person.

He gave her a long, appraising look, then said with a faint smile, "I have always been fair. Those who do wrong must be punished, and debts must be repaid."

Song Hua thought it over, then suddenly understood.

"All right, then let's get married."

*

Lu Zichen had once been the most gifted young man around, but his family had fallen from grace, his parents were dead, and now even his betrothal was being called off. Frail and sickly, he had long since lost hope.

He thought it was just as well that the engagement had been broken. Given his circumstances, he didn't want to drag a young woman into a life of hardship.

Lu Zichen personally delivered the marriage contract, intending to end things for good.

Unexpectedly, he overheard his future father-in-law negotiating with someone.

So the Song family wanted to monopolize the market.

So the Song family was to blame for his current plight.

Lu Zichen gritted his teeth, glared at the marriage contract in his hands, and resolutely left Liangzhou.

He went to the capital, sat the imperial examinations, and eventually became prefect of a province. Then he returned to his hometown.

He heard that his fiancée was about to marry someone else.

"As if I'd let that happen."

So he had the father and son-in-law arrested and thrown into prison.

When his fiancée came to plead for them, he intended to make things difficult for her and deliberately said, "I have always been fair. Those who do wrong must be punished, and debts must be repaid."

The Lu family was owed justice, and she would have to pay it back.

But the young woman thought it over and suddenly said, "Then let's get married."

Lu Zichen: ?

In the years that followed, people sometimes came across the prefect and his wife enjoying a boat ride together, in perfect harmony and blissfully in love.

The people of Liangzhou were deeply moved: Three years later, the love story had come true after all!

[Little scene]

Lu Zichen learned that his wife had used her betrothal to him to extort a share of the family property from her mercenary father.

That night, in the soft blue haze of their gauzy bed curtains, Lu Zichen suddenly stopped. He gazed at his wife in his arms, her limpid eyes glistening as she looked up at him. His gaze darkened, and he asked in a restrained voice, "You hid houses and farmland from me, hundreds of miles outside Liangzhou. Were you planning to divorce me?"

Song Hua had indeed considered it. She was startled, but kept it off her face. Sniffling, she wrapped her arms around his neck, looking terribly wronged.

"Back then, I thought you'd come back for revenge and kick me out sooner or later, so I kept a way out."

The moment she cried, Lu Zichen was at a loss. He knew she was making excuses, but still bent down to kiss the tears from the corners of her eyes and gently comfort her.

"I won't kick you out."

"And we won't get divorced."

Theme: Cherish the people you love.