The most infuriating thing that ever happened to Xiao Yun Zhe was meeting Lin Miao Miao and her stubborn-to-the-core father.
To get what he wanted, Xiao Yun Zhe used every method he could think of to torture Lin Miao Miao, but she wouldn't say a word.
They say women care about their looks, so he tried using them as leverage. But she didn't just refuse to give in; she struck first and slashed her own face.
Then she glared fiercely at Xiao Yun Zhe and said, "My father says that skin and looks are nothing but a pile of bones."
He also threatened to make her go without food for three days. She held out until the third night, and in the end Xiao Yun Zhe had no choice but to order someone to force a bowl of thin porridge down her throat.
She stubbornly spat it out and added, "My father says you shouldn't accept food offered in contempt."
At that moment, Xiao Yun Zhe didn't hate Lin Miao Miao. He hated her father, a mere minor official who had insisted on raising a frail young woman into an iron-willed heroine.
He was an honorable, upright general, yet people called him a bandit.
He thought to himself that if he used every torture method he'd employed in the army, there was no way a frail young woman could keep refusing to talk.
Yet as the days passed, he never used a single one of those methods. Instead, he developed a serious heart condition.
Whenever one of his subordinates suggested torturing Lin Miao Miao, his chest would ache unbearably.
The condition was so peculiar that even the imperial physicians were powerless to treat it.
It wasn't until later, when he defied his family's objections and disregarded Lin Miao Miao's identity to marry her and hold her in his arms, that his heart condition gradually improved.
Reader's Guide: The female lead grows over the course of the story and has a secret identity.
Theme: Love that doesn't weigh the pros and cons is the truest kind.
