Meeting You by the Creek

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Ten miles of green hills conceal a graceful mystery. You Ming gets hurt and finds herself a sweet young husband. Also known as: My Country Husband Has Two Sides. See the blurb to the right.

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[Devoted, loyal, and righteous martial world girl who'll do anything to save her friends X Deeply scheming, vengeful, and cunning young nobleman]

The main story is complete.

1. How could anyone willingly imprison himself in a gilded cage?

Inside the golden cage, the young man is in a wretched state. Sang Xiyu, dressed in red like a flame, slowly approaches. This is their first meeting. Chu Fuxue's face is hidden behind his messy hair, leaving only a pair of dark eyes, deep as a pool.

In a precarious era, with the martial world in chaos, they travel together through the gentle lands south of the Yangtze and onward to the boundless desert.

Beneath a Buddhist shrine, Sang Xiyu clumsily clasps her hands, yet her expression is exceptionally devout. She turns her head and carefully asks Chu Fuxue what wish he made. He smiles.

"I wished for Heroine Sang to live a hundred years."

"A hundred years?" Sang Xiyu realizes he made a wish for her, sticks out her tongue, and turns away. "You should've wished for me to have ten thousand taels of gold instead."

Much later, a crumpled scrap of paper falls from her bloodstained clothes. The words written on it are a wish for a peaceful end.

2. Between Langning and Zhongdu, Sang Xiyu learns how to make friends and once dreams of becoming the greatest under heaven. She has seen romance and beauty, but all her life she believes in only two great pleasures: drinking and sleeping.

In a hot spring pool veiled in mist and swirling clouds, he entwines his fingers with hers and softly teaches her what it means to hold hands, what it means to embrace, and what it means to...

Then she lifts her head. The dream of love vanishes, and she sees the glittering golden cage above her. Only then does she realize she is nothing more than a pawn in someone else's hand, a sword in their grasp.

In this world, love is the hardest thing to grasp and the hardest thing to let go.

Stormy nights in the martial world, victory and defeat at court.

Chu Fuxue has always been trapped in a tangible golden cage and intangible shackles.

The mountains are high and the road is long; blowing sand obscures his sight. Long before he could no longer see the road behind him, he had already chosen his destination.

He must crawl over arrows and wade through swamps, watch his ragged wounds split open and new flesh grow, and carve a path of slaughter through a sea of blood.

On every lonely, bitter-cold night, he stares at the golden bars above him, his heart and mind full of suppressed, ruthless resolve, as painful as a thousand ants gnawing at him.

Until a flash of red appears before his eyes. A fledgling martial world girl cautiously approaches the golden cage and, her voice uncertain, says:

"Five hundred taels."

The choices this troubled age offers them seem numerous, but in truth, there is only one path.

1. Talkative, clever martial world girl x Deeply scheming, cunning young nobleman

2. The male lead is a schemer; the female lead is rather straightforward

3. One-on-one romance

4. Martial world + imperial court

The main story is complete.

Theme: Find a way to survive when all hope seems lost