The General Always Wants a Divorce

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[Preview: Snow on Distant Branches. Take a look if you're interested!]

[Clingy, sweet little white flower x gruff but soft-hearted straight-laced general]

To save her younger brother, Xue Bahu, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, marries far away to the capital.

Her husband is a powerful general, and rumor has it his heart already belongs to someone else.

They also say he was arrogant and insolent in his youth.

Everyone thinks the marriage is doomed, but Xue Bahu carefully works to keep it afloat.

Little by little, she discovers how to manage her husband...

*

Huo Dingye wakes up one morning to discover that he's married.

A little afraid of marriage, he makes plans to get a divorce.

But his little wife's gaze seems to grow stranger by the day.

Huo Dingye feels like she's got him wrapped around her finger.

He finds it harder and harder to refuse her requests,

especially when she looks at him with tear-filled eyes and a trembling lip.

Huo Dingye: I seriously can't take it.

*

Worried she might get taken advantage of, Huo Dingye earnestly advises her, "You're just too softhearted. When someone makes an unreasonable demand, you have to learn to say no and stand up for what you want."

Xue Bahu gives this some thought.

That night, when it's time for bed, she pushes him away.

"I'm so tired. Go sleep in the study, okay?"

Huo Dingye, hoisted by his own petard: "..."

Note:

A sweet post-marriage romance, with everyone playing matchmaker.

Romance-focused, with a slice-of-life feel.

The setting is very loosely based on anything historical.

The male lead has no first love.

Snow on Distant Branches

Blurb:

Yao Zhixue, a pampered young lady raised in luxury, is taken back to her uncle's home.

The house is falling apart, with holes in the roof and water leaking through the walls. Her aunt torments her, her uncle turns a blind eye, and her cousin is always leering at her. Yao Zhixue, who has been spoiled since childhood, can't adjust to life there. She soon falls seriously ill and dies in despair.

When she opens her eyes again, there's one year left until the real daughter returns.

To avoid being sent back to that household, Yao Zhixue decides to marry before then. But there are so many eligible young men in Yanjing. Which one should she choose?

*

As Yanjing's most lawless little tyrant, Rong Qiu has always been the one causing trouble for others. Nearly everyone is terrified of him and tries to stay out of his way.

And yet...

Rong Qiu digs at his ear. "What did you say?"

Yao Zhixue blushes. "I like you. I want to marry you!"

Rong Qiu: "..."

Nobody told him what he was supposed to do about this!

To make matters worse, Yao Zhixue is impervious to both soft and hard tactics, and even follows him to the academy.

Just as he finally convinces himself to accept her, he hears that she's fallen for someone else.

Rong Qiu scoffs. There's no way someone as impossible to shake off as Yao Zhixue could like anyone else.

Until he sees her blushing as she gives her handkerchief to another young man.

That night, Rong Qiu storms into her room, his anger blazing:

"You let him pick up your handkerchief?"

"What next? Were you going to fall into his arms too?!"

*

Rong Qiu knows that although Yao Zhixue says she likes him, there's not a trace of affection in her eyes.

She's been leading him around by the nose the whole time.

But he's perfectly willing to let her.

A proud, fierce young man who gets jealous easily x a spoiled, willful silly girl

Message: Love every day of your life.