After the General I Wronged Turned Dark

Xie Yanjin spent his youth living away from home before the Jiang family took him in as their adopted son. He was deaf in both ears and endured rejection at the Jiang residence. Only the Jiang family's legitimate daughter never showed him the slightest disdain. She lit a flame in his dark world. Unable to suppress his feelings for her, Xie Yanjin gave her the jade pendant his elder brother had left him. Later, after his hearing returned, he overheard the girl speaking behind a bookshelf in a soft, sweet voice, full of contempt. "He can't hear, and he still dares to hope he'll become Father's adopted son? He has no sense of his place. He's filthy and despicable!" As she finished speaking, there was a sharp crack. The jade pendant he'd given her fell to the floor and broke in two. The girl swept away in her floor-length dress, never once looking back at the pendant. In the dim light, Xie Yanjin picked up the pendant and clenched it tightly, letting its sharp edges dig into his flesh until his hand was covered in blood. Years later, when they met again, he had become the young General Xie, commanding a powerful army. Her father had been falsely accused and thrown into the imperial prison. The once untouchable young lady had become a lamb at the mercy of anyone who wished to bully her. Desperate to protect herself, she married in haste and became another man's bride. On her wedding day, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Xie Yanjin stopped the bridal sedan and dragged her into a dark room where not a ray of light could be seen. Her body trembled uncontrollably beneath her wedding dress as Xie Yanjin roughly gripped her chin. He used the broken jade pendant to slice her clothes open, bit by bit. Xie Yanjin gave a sinister smile and demanded coldly, "Jiang Liangyue, is that hypocrite any cleaner than me?" To clear her father's name, Jiang Liangyue struck a deal with Pei Yu, a junior official at the Court of Judicial Review, and agreed to marry him. But disaster struck on her wedding day, and she became a caged bird in the hands of a rising star in the capital. The man she had once treated as worthless had become her only hope. She could only bow her head and plead, "I beg you, General Xie, have mercy and investigate the case thoroughly." Xie Yanjin looked down at her from above. "Jiang Liangyue, is this how you ask someone for help?" Tears glimmered in Jiang Liangyue's eyes, and her voice was soft and weak. "As long as you reopen the investigation, I'll do anything you ask..." Xie Yanjin's long, elegant fingers lifted her pointed chin. His smile was cool and playful. "Anything, is that right?" Everyone knew that Xie Yanjin was composed and level-headed, and had no interest in women. Until one day, he brought a woman back with him. They said she was breathtakingly beautiful. Some even spread rumors that she was the daughter of General Xie's enemy, and that he kept her by his side simply to take revenge. No one knew that Xie Yanjin was an entirely different person in front of the Jiang family's daughter. He thought he had seized the obsession of his youth and trapped the moon at his side. He never imagined that he was the one who'd truly been trapped. Bonus Scene: The Jiang family's young lady had a sweet tooth. To win her favor, Xie Yanjin held up two sugar figurines, one a pig and the other a donkey, both carved with lifelike, adorably foolish expressions. "Yueyue, which of these two sugar figurines looks like me?" Jiang Liangyue answered coldly, "Neither. You're not that cute." #My Corrupted Childhood Friend Takes Me by Force# #In the End, He'll Have to Beg for Forgiveness# Theme: Turn the tables in adversity and never give up.