Holding the Red Bean

(A gentle young master with a strong possessive streak x a scatterbrained county princess with an overwhelming will to survive)

This is a tragic novel!

This is a tragic novel!! A tragic novel!!! (Not really.)

Only after Jiang Qiqi died did she learn...

The male lead is handsome and graceful, an emperor beloved by all. The female lead is a general who wants to build a glorious legacy on the battlefield. Because they stand on opposite sides, they torment each other day after day. Taking a look at herself...

Wow!

She had actually been a pawn, trapped in a war for power. She entered the palace at a young age and remained out of favor for years. Her personality left her with no place to belong in the inner palace, and she eventually died of sorrow. So she was just a cannon-fodder character in the romance.

...To hell with this wretched fate.

This time, she chose to stay far away from the main plot and the male and female leads. She waved her chubby little hands and wrote down her grand ambition: a plan to roam the martial world!

Zhao Yan had never imagined that one day he would fall into the hands of a little brat.

When they first met, she clung to his head and sobbed, her childish voice buzzing in his ear: "Wake up! Don't die!"

Zhao Yan: Whose filthy little kid is this? Wait!! Watch your nose!

When the little sprout grew into a lovely young woman...

Passerby: Whose young lady are you?

Zhao Yan (on guard) immediately scoops her up and carries her off: "She's mine!"

Jiang Qiqi: ?

…Little Scenes…

When she was young...

Jiang Qiqi glared at the vegetables in her bowl and at the culprit who'd cut back on her meat.

Zhao Yan: Don't look at me. Eat.

Jiang Qiqi: (wailing) I want meat! I want meat!

Zhao Yan: Kids are such a pain!

As adults...

Behind the hibiscus curtains, a beauty wept softly. Someone's sweat dripped onto her collarbone. Her eyes misty with tears, she gazed at the man nuzzling her neck.

Zhao Yan: Hmm? Why don't you cry louder? Your husband will be gentle with you.

Jiang Qiqi: Don't press on my stomach, it feels awful... Enough!

Zhao Yan (thinking): I don't think that's enough. Could my wife show me a little mercy...

Jiang Qiqi (gritting her teeth): ...You're really too much!

P.S.:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, with a happy ending. A slice-of-life romance about raising a child, with a five-year age gap.

2. The male lead is possessive and rather stubborn early on. The female lead is the person he loves most.

3. The female lead is slow to develop feelings. The male lead has been secretly in love with her for a long time, but they don't get together until after she comes of age.

4. Our girl is incredibly beautiful, the fairest beauty in the whole book.

Theme: Hold the red bean, and grow old together.