When Ruan Jing was twelve, she came down with a strange illness. After every attempt to find a cure failed, she followed the advice of a sage and left the capital for the mountains, living in seclusion and practicing cultivation for three years, until she came of age.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye. Ruan Jing received a letter from home, telling her to return to the capital as soon as she came of age and honor the betrothal arranged for her in childhood.
Ruan Jing was quite satisfied with the match. Her fiancé was the childhood friend she had grown up with, and she remembered him as an exceptionally gentle and steady young man.
She never expected that an accident would happen on the eve of her return. By the time she made it back to the capital, the date specified in her letter had already passed by seven days.
The capital was awash in red wedding finery, with drums and gongs resounding through the streets. She stopped a random passerby and asked, “Which family’s young master is getting married?”
The passerby frowned. “The eldest young master of the Xiao family, Xiao Feiyu.”
Xiao Feiyu... Wasn’t that her fiancé?!
Ruan Jing choked on her tea. “Wasn’t he betrothed to the second daughter of the Ruan family? Why is he suddenly marrying someone else?”
The passerby, now drenched in tea, looked even more displeased and gritted out, “He is marrying the second daughter of the Ruan family, Ruan Jing.”
Ruan Jing, who had just returned to the capital: ...What in the world???
*
After three years in seclusion, Ruan Jing returned to the capital and attended her own wedding.
With the groom’s burning gaze beside her, she looked at the bride, whose face was full of apologies. The bride was the little childhood friend she had taken in when they were young.
That’s right. Her childhood friend had taken her name and identity and married her childhood sweetheart, her fiancé.
What an extraordinary, marvelous turn of events.
On the day she returned to her parents’ home after the wedding, her childhood sweetheart privately explained his reasons.
Ruan Jing nodded to show she understood. “After all, I was late.”
He brightened, about to pour out his heart, when she continued, “Now that things have come to this, the two of us have nothing to do with each other anymore. I wish you and your wife a loving marriage, full of harmony. As for me...”
“There are plenty of flowers beyond the horizon, and spring comes again before a withered tree.”
“Don’t worry. I won’t hang myself from your tree, nor will I disturb your happy life together.”
Three months later, she changed her name to Ruan Zheng and married her childhood sweetheart’s sworn enemy, the very passerby from before.
*
When An Huan was young, he fell for a girl. Unfortunately, the girl had an irritating childhood friend who clung to her like a fly, opposed him at every turn, and kept him from getting close to her.
Then fortune turned, and a dead tree blossomed. She became his wife.
At last, he could stand proudly and openly by her side, and say to that persistent, meddlesome fly, “Xiao, this is my wife. Please show some respect.”
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