Gladly Becoming the Sword in Her Hand

[A seemingly fragile, actually slightly unhinged orphan girl, Pei Zheng X a seemingly unruly, actually principled young general, Qi Ran]

In her previous life, Pei Zheng died by the sword of her cousin, Xie Chao Ning.

With one thrust through the heart, her nightclothes stained with blood, Xie Chao Ning lifted her chin, regret in his eyes.

"A-Zheng, why can't you learn to bend?"

Pei Zheng wanted to sneer at him, but she had no strength left. Her life ended in resentment.

At fourteen, the Xie family found her and used her as a pawn for three years. At seventeen, she learned that the Xie family had killed both her mother and brother. At eighteen, she poisoned the food at a Xie family banquet, but only killed Old Madam Xie...

Pei Zheng never imagined that when she opened her eyes again, she would have returned to the age of fourteen.

At this point, she was still all alone, looking after the tofu shop her mother and brother had left her.

This time, she wouldn't wait for the Xie family to find her. She would go find them instead.

Qi Ran is the youngest son of General Qi. He's a bit unruly, but still a good, principled young man.

That is, until he meets Pei Zheng and goes astray.

At first, he accidentally catches her urging someone to commit murder, and only wants to send her to prison.

Later, all he wants is to shield her eyes, ask no questions, and care nothing for right or wrong or punishment. Whatever she wants to do, he'll do it for her.

As long as she'll smile once.

He can't stand to see her cry. Even when he knows she's only pretending, he can't bear it. When she cries, he feels like he can't breathe either.

He's completely fallen for her.

That's what Qi Ran thinks.

*Bonus Scene

On the day Xie Chao Ning, the Xie family's brilliant young heir, was ambushed and left fighting for his life, he woke to see Pei Zheng with tears on her face. He immediately endured his pain to comfort her. "A-Zheng, don't be afraid."

He didn't know that as soon as the woman he called A-Zheng left, someone pulled her behind a curtain.

In the dark, Qi Ran kissed the tear tracks on her face, trembling,

pleading again and again,

"Zheng Zheng, can you stop looking at him?"

"Sure, General Qi. Go in there and kill him, and I won't look at him anymore. Do you dare?"

Why wouldn't he?

Qi Ran strode straight in with his sword...

Reading Notes:

(1) The romance won't make things difficult for the female lead.

(2) The male lead is a bit of a love-struck fool.

(3) The female lead is no pure, innocent flower.

(4) The female lead has never liked her cousin.

Theme: Live well.