Remarrying the Great General Next Door

(Please check out my upcoming novel, The Grassland Princess's Upbringing!)

- A pampered, headstrong heiress x a cold-faced, deadly general -

Marriage by contract / married first, love later / everyday child-rearing

[Set the silent mountain ablaze with the fiercest fire]

In her previous life, Wen Zhixu gave everything she had to raise her husband from a down-and-out scholar to the chancellor.

But one bitterly cold night, she caught him whispering sweet nothings to her cousin...

A cup of poisoned wine was forced down her throat.

Her cousin looked down at her. "So what if you stood on my head all these years? In the end, I still won."

"Sister, it's time you made room for me."

That day, she collapsed in the swirling snow, her eyes open until the moment she died.

Reborn eighteen years earlier, when the two families were arranging a marriage.

The snow on Vermilion Bird Street had yet to melt. Wen Zhixu tore up her former marriage agreement with her own hands, cast aside the ungrateful, faithless man without a moment's hesitation, and strode away, crushing the jade-like snow beneath her skirts.

Just then, the Black Armor General, returning victorious to the capital, reined in his horse and looked back.

She turned and looked up, meeting his hawk-like gaze.

Everyone in the capital knew that General Jiang Muye was a block of ice that could never be warmed, a terrifying, ruthless man radiating murderous intent.

When his father and brothers died in battle, he was only seventeen. Alone, covered in filth, he dragged the last surviving children of the Jiang family out of a mountain of corpses: a little devil who could tear down the ancestral hall, a stiff, self-destructive boy, and a mute little girl who bit everyone she saw and could not even cry.

In that enormous manor, they had only one another. The family was dwindling away.

She suddenly asked, "General, would you marry me?"

"...Miss Wen, do you know..." His voice was low and hoarse, steeped in the wind and frost of the northern frontier. "The children in my household are unruly and difficult to manage."

"What a coincidence." She smiled. "I'm an expert at dealing with naughty children."

"It's a deal. But I'll make this clear up front: the Jiang family has no divorce, only widowhood."

*

Everyone said the eldest legitimate daughter of the Loyal and Brave Earl's family had gone mad.

She had a refined, handsome top scholar to marry, yet insisted on getting involved with a jinx and becoming a stepmother.

But later...

The little devil ran around the courtyard with an essay on military strategy in his hands. "Sister-in-law said she'll buy me candy if I memorize the military manuals!"

The stiff boy tugged at his sleeves, blushing as he asked permission to leave the manor. "A friend invited me to enjoy the scenery on the mountain, Auntie. May I go?"

The little girl lay against her knee and, for the first time, called her "Mama."

There was no mother-in-law to impose rules above her, and no concubines to cause trouble below.

She could listen to music and raise children, and she was in charge of the general's estate. Life couldn't be more carefree.

The only thing she disliked was that the general, who had promised they would be respectful companions, was getting stranger and stranger.

After returning victorious, he had to hold her all night to sleep. When teaching the children swordplay, he insisted she tie his bracer in front of everyone. Even when she merely glanced at someone else, he would scowl and keep her up half the night.

Wen Zhixu had had enough. She kicked the man who had climbed into her bed right back out. "Jiang Muye! We agreed to use each other for our own ends..."

"I've changed my mind."

The man's Adam's apple brushed her burning earlobe. "I'll give you the children, and I'll give you myself."

"Zhizhi, do you want me?"

-Reader's Guide-

1. Both leads have only ever been with each other. The children aren't the male lead's. Happy ending.

2. The second male lead pursues his wife after losing her.

3. The heroine is not a powerhouse. She's a woman from the past who does her best to make life more comfortable within her abilities.

Upcoming novel: The Grassland Princess's Upbringing

-A wild, unyielding princess x a feral, devoted slave who loves pretending to be weak-

[My daughter, who grew up wild on the grasslands, run free and fierce]

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Chunyu Yingyin is the only princess of the Wuku royal court in the northwest, the most renowned jewel of the grasslands.

Beloved from childhood, she grew up on horseback in the arms of King Wuku himself, a heaven-blessed child.

The galloping steeds neighed beneath her. Starlight and sunlight shone overhead. Amid the swirling dust, the clear sound of her silver bells rang out, and her bright eyes were full of ambition and pride.

Yingyin thought she would always live freely and happily beneath the wolf banners and golden tents.

Until the rainy season suddenly arrived on the grasslands.

Chunyu Yingyin's world changed.

Standing before her father's grave, she could not tell whether the wetness blurring her eyes was rain or tears.

She spun around.

Of the many people who once followed the princess wherever she went, only one remained behind her.

It was the pitiful little slave she had once saved on a whim...

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Zigui was the lowest-ranked slave. Born with different-colored eyes, he was called a bastard and treated as an ill omen. No one cared for him.

As far back as he could remember, he had been alone ever since his mother died.

Being humiliated and beaten at the slightest provocation, going hungry and wearing threadbare clothes, were all part of daily life.

Later, he was sent to the royal court's beast arena... He thought this miserable, brief dog of a life was finally over.

Until a pair of soft, strong hands embraced him, filthy and wretched as he was.

He struggled to open his eyes, only to be dazzled by an even more brilliant light.

From that moment on, he was reborn.

He had thought that staying by her side, earning her affection, and being her most loyal wolfhound would be enough.

But it wasn't. Not nearly enough!

When someone else stole the gaze that should have belonged to him, Zigui's blood-red eyes nearly wept blood.

He went mad, wreaking destruction and slaughter without restraint.

Then, covered in scars, he went back to his mistress with a pitiful expression, his eyes blurred with tears as he curled up against her knees.

Hoping she would pet him.

He was never a good person, but he wanted her.

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A little scene:

Chunyu Yingyin accompanied her father on a visit to the Great Ye Kingdom. When they paid their respects to the emperor, she also met the crown prince, famed for his gentle, refined demeanor.

Unlike all the men on the grasslands, the crown prince was like a clear stream, elegant and courteous. He instantly seized all of Yingyin's attention, and she could not resist him.

But when such a noble and courteous prince actually asked for her hand, Yingyin refused...

An eagle of the grasslands will never be dazzled by wealth and splendor.

A deep courtyard and high palace walls should not, and cannot, confine her.

She is the Princess of Wuku, and she will always belong to the grasslands.

Theme: Be unapologetically yourself