After My Husband Returned a War Hero

The Pei family had fallen on hard times. The eldest son, Pei Linfeng, was handsome and dashing, with a tall, upright bearing. He was nearing twenty, yet his fiancée still refused to marry him.

The matchmaker urged her again and again, and at last the bride's family agreed on a date.

On their wedding night, Pei Linfeng lifted the red veil, only to find the face of... his fiancée's elder half-sister, Xia Qiangwei, who had lost her mother and was unloved by the family.

Xia Qiangwei timidly looked up, expecting Pei Linfeng to be furious and send her straight back to her parents' home.

Instead, he gently promised her, "My dear, thank you for being willing to marry me. I'll treat you well from now on."

That very night, war broke out at the border, and Pei Linfeng hurriedly left with the army.

Two years later.

Having won remarkable military honors, Pei Linfeng was granted a marquisate and returned with great power and authority. The first thing he did was accompany Xia Qiangwei to her parents' home to make up for the customary third-day visit after their wedding.

His stepmother smiled and urged her daughter, Xia Yulan, forward to greet him.

Xia Yulan walked over gracefully, fragrant and delicate, her face flushed with shyness. "Husband, I was seriously ill before, so I had my older sister marry you in my place for a while. Now I'm fully recovered, and I can go home with you today."

Pei Linfeng clasped Xia Qiangwei's little hand, a faint smile on his thin lips. "I never realized you were such an easy woman. Since you're willing, fine. Your sister happens to need a maid to tend the stove."

Xia Yulan: ...

She never expected the powerful marquis to actually take her back to his estate and make her a kitchen maid. That night, a fire broke out in the kitchen, and she nearly burned to death!

P.S. The leads have only ever been with each other in both their lives. One love, for a lifetime.

Theme: Nothing is more beautiful than a love both people choose