Everyone praised Shu Yao, proprietress of the Qinglan Bookshop, as a gentle, refined, dignified young lady who always observed proper manners.
But only Shu Yao knew what she was thinking as she sat peacefully by the window, watching the sun sink below the horizon.
In the silent night, her dreams burned hot.
The man in her dreams was not the respectful, proper husband she was married to in name, but Wei Wuhuan, her irreverent childhood friend whom she had not seen in years.
In reality, he had died on the battlefield. In her dreams, he grinned mischievously, teasing her that she only complained about him with her words, when in truth she longed to have him by her side.
In her dreams, free from the constraints of the world, Shu Yao refused to deny her feelings. She put out the lamp and let herself sink into them, until she could no longer tell reality from fantasy.
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How dare Shu Yao marry someone else behind his back?
Clinging to that grievance, Wei Wuhuan crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, then climbed through her window into her bedroom. He was determined to get an explanation.
The pure, spotless woman awoke from her dream and threw herself barefoot into his arms without a shred of reserve, soft as a flower.
Against the hard armor on his chest, caked with dirt and blood, she gently kissed him.
The prey "Ghostly Menace" sets his sights on never escapes. Shu Yao, you won't get away from me.
Note: The heroine's marriage is fake.
First edition: January 27, 2023. Revised edition: February 2, 2024. Screenshots saved.
Theme: Love cannot be weighed in terms of pros and cons.
