Who Was Hit by a Rock? [Three Kingdoms]

Xie Lingyu, the daughter of a prominent family, was engaged to Sun Quan, the Second Young Master of the Sun family, whom she had never met. Two months before the wedding, she ran into a young general on a mountainside tea plantation. He had come to put down bandits.

Standing below her on the slope, he said, "I want to lead my troops through the tea plantation. Please let us pass."

Xie Lingyu refused. "With all those ironclad cavalrymen trampling through here, won't you ruin the tea plantation?"

The general snapped, "What's your name? Are you in league with the bandits?"

Xie Lingyu snapped right back. "You aren't worthy of asking this young lady's name!"

They traded barbs until the young general drew his sword and tried to force his way through. In desperation, Xie Lingyu kicked a boulder beside her down the mountainside.

The general was struck by the rock and cried out, "I'm getting married in two months! How dare you hurt me!"

Xie Lingyu sneered. Going off to war and already thinking about the wedding waiting for him at home. What a fool.

*

Two months later, Xie Lingyu married Sun Quan. Seeing him through her round fan, she wondered: Was Sun Quan really a cripple?

Then she took another look. How could it be him???

Sun Quan had been in high spirits, but when he saw her, his smile vanished and he frowned suspiciously. "Why do you look familiar?"

Xie Lingyu tried to cover it up. "People can look alike."

Sun Quan cautiously asked, "Do you know how I injured my leg?"

Xie Lingyu: "..."

Sun Quan: "Hmph. You're in league with the bandits."

Xie Lingyu: "How dare you make such a baseless accusation!"

Sun Quan: "I'm breaking off the engagement!"

Later, when Sun Quan's mother, Madam Wu, said she was going to send Xie Lingyu away, Sun Quan protested with all his might. "It's all my fault, every bit of it..."

[Content Warning]

1. The heroine is a violent noblewoman in the early part of the story.

2. An alternate Three Kingdoms timeline. Sun Ce will not die. Please don't nitpick the history.

[Coming next: The Palace Scribe's Secret Marriage, Two Years Later. Now open for preorders. A secret marriage at court, with marriage first and love later.]

Xiao Yiluan, a palace scribe at the Imperial Library, had been secretly married for two years, but had only seen her husband once. He had left to lead an army on campaign.

The good news: Her husband's mother told her, "All this family wealth will be yours one day."

The bad news: Her husband had returned victorious, and apparently there was someone else by his side?

The handsome young general Xie Xun had married in a hurry two years ago, on his mother's orders, just before leaving for war. He hadn't even gotten a good look at his new bride on their wedding night before military orders summoned him away.

He once sent her a flower, but she seemed not to understand his feelings?

With Xie Xun about to return, the Imperial Library received an order: Write a congratulatory memorial, and take the opportunity to give him a warning.

Diligent Xiao Yiluan seized the chance to get back at him. I'll make sure to do a good job.

On the day Xie Xun returned, he understood the message hidden in the memorial and reluctantly handed over his military tally.

Uneasy, Xiao Yiluan received a jade pendant from Xie Xun and let her imagination run wild.

When they met again, the two pretended they were strangers. In front of everyone, he told Xiao Yiluan, "This kind of jade pendant has a rather ominous meaning. At best, it foretells marital discord; at worst, a lifetime of loneliness."

Xiao Yiluan: ????

Furious, she took the pendant to a pawnshop and made a fortune from it, along with a house.

Heartbroken, Xie Xun wandered into the pawnshop and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to redeem this."

Later, Xiao Yiluan rose quickly through the ranks at the Imperial Library, while Xie Xun's daily inner monologue went: Will she come home today? When will she ever come home?

Xiao Yiluan: I'm busy. Do not disturb.

Xie Xun also discovered that the Crown Prince, whom he had devoted himself to supporting, had designs on his wife...

Theme: No matter how many obstacles stand in the way, we must save the one who got away.