No Need to Return

*A laid-back, beautiful prince × a food-loving female general

Actually, it's a story about happy army cooks and a grassroots civil servant in the Great Zhou, an unconventional marriage-first, love-later romance. Written on a whim, so don't overanalyze it.

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[Blurb]

Gu Xugui is an older unmarried woman in the capital. All the noble ladies her age have had their third child, while she is still unmarried. Her life is progressing five percent more slowly than everyone else's, and her parents are frantic.

Perhaps even Heaven couldn't stand to watch any longer, so it tossed a marriage decree she couldn't refuse right in her face. The marriage had been bestowed by the emperor himself. When the imperial decree arrived at the general's residence, all three members of the Gu family were dumbfounded.

Gu Xugui was sitting at home when a marriage fell from the sky. She was assigned to Prince Jing, Xie Zhanchong, who was half-dead, as a bride to bring him good fortune. Unexpectedly, Xie Zhanchong ran away on their wedding day and vanished without a trace for two months. The whole capital thought she was about to become a widow, and even Gu Xugui thought so. So she happily prepared to become the pretty widow of a gravely ill prince.

Who could have guessed that Xie Zhanchong would return from Jiangnan in one piece?

His first words after returning: "I hear you've been telling everyone I'm going to die?"

Gu Xugui: "..."

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