The Noblewoman and the Common-Born General

Su Yijia is the legitimate eldest daughter of an illustrious clan. She excels at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and is outstanding in virtue, appearance, speech, and conduct.

Han Zhi is a great general who helped the new emperor conquer the realm. He was born into a poor family.

These two people, who had nothing to do with each other, were bound together by an imperial decree.

After their wedding,

She was always complaining that he was rude and slovenly, while he thought she made too much fuss.

She disliked how he never cultivated connections with those above and below him, while he thought she was too concerned with worldly advancement.

She disliked how kind he was to his cousin, while he thought she had a cousin she loved in her heart.

After five years of marriage, three years of arguing and two years of cold war, they finally could not stand each other any longer and went before the emperor to divorce.

When she woke, she had returned to the night of their wedding.

They had just finished consummating their marriage.

He gazed at her lovely face and thought that even if she loved someone else, they could still make a life together.

She put all her strength into kicking him right off the bed.

He was furious.

Fine, very well. He would go beat up that cousin of hers right now!

Reader advisory:

1. Neither lead is a perfect character.

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Qiao Ditang is the legitimate daughter of the Earl of Taiping. She has a melodious voice and striking beauty. After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Jiangnan when her mother remarried. When she grew up, her father summoned her back to the capital to marry for political advantage and consolidate his power.

Gu Xianting, heir to the marquis's estate and current Assistant Minister of Justice, is noble-born, handsome, aloof, and uninterested in women.

When they first met, Qiao Ditang was sending secret glances toward Prince Cheng. Gu Xianting assumed she was a social climber like her father and looked down on her.

When they met again, Qiao Ditang had found another object of affection, the heir to the Marquis of Yongning. Gu Xianting summed her up in four words: fickle and flighty.

Not long afterward, Qiao Ditang appeared before Gu Xianting. Looking at her smile, bright as a spring flower, and hearing her melodious voice, like an oriole singing from its nest, Gu Xianting suddenly felt that her request was not so unreasonable after all.

He agreed to keep her by his side and find out what she was really after.

As they spent more time together, he discovered that she was clever and decisive, with a resilient spirit, and his opinion of her changed.

He had always thought Qiao Ditang wanted him, but once the case was solved, she left behind a large sum of money and vanished without a trace.

Gu Xianting was furious.

So she had been using him from beginning to end!

When Qiao Ditang first followed her mother to Jiangnan, everyone disliked her. Fortunately, the eldest daughter of the Su family was always there to protect her, and did so for many years. Later, the Su family's eldest daughter married into a noble household in the capital and met with misfortune. Qiao Ditang decided to move heaven and earth and use every means at her disposal to avenge her.

You kept me safe in life. In death, I will clear your name.

"With nothing to offer from Jiangnan, I send you a sprig of spring."

Theme: A lasting marriage depends on communication and understanding.