My Childhood Friend Husband Is a Peach Blossom Spirit

A devoted childhood friend and general gong x a reborn peach blossom yao and powerful official shou

In his previous life, Shen Tingzhou stayed by Prince Yue's side to advance his career and turned down his childhood friend Fu Yanshu's marriage proposal. But Prince Yue used him until he had nothing left, destroying his family and leaving him to take the blame. Worse, Shen could only watch as Fu Yanshu was dragged down with him and died unjustly on the battlefield.

It was all because he was a yao, someone the world was destined never to accept.

Just before his execution, Prince Yue tossed him a letter stained with blood. Fu Yanshu had written: I don't blame you for my death. Let's be brothers again in our next life. Shen Tingzhou regretted everything and wept uncontrollably.

Fortunately, Heaven gave him a chance to live his life over. This time, Shen Tingzhou cut all ties with Prince Yue and showed up at Fu Yanshu's door with his dowry. "Brother, how about getting married?"

Fu Yanshu had been secretly in love with his childhood friend for years.

In the eyes of the world, Shen Tingzhou was graceful as moonlight, gifted with words, and measured in all his dealings. He kept his brilliance hidden, and once the Prince Yue he supported won the struggle for the throne and became emperor, Shen would be the new emperor's greatest contributor.

Yet this refined, beautiful man suddenly said he wanted to marry him.

Fu Yanshu thought his good friend was just joking. He never expected Shen Tingzhou to prepare all the betrothal gifts and ceremonies, then truly marry into the Fu family.

As soon as they were married, Fu Yanshu had to leave for the frontier. Before Shen could even begin to miss him, Prince Yue, suddenly wary of Shen Tingzhou's ambitions, sent him off to the borderlands along with Fu Yanshu.

Fu Yanshu felt sorry for his husband, whose career had taken such a hit. But when he got home, he found his husband already carrying a little bundle and eagerly asking, "Husband, husband, when are we leaving?"

Everyone said Shen Tingzhou was a wolf in sheep's clothing, and letting him accompany the army to the frontier was like releasing a tiger into the mountains.

But no one knew that Shen Tingzhou cared only for the people. He opened up farmland, dug irrigation canals, and established border markets...

With his own hands, he transformed the sparsely populated frontier into a bustling city, livelier than the capital.

That year, peach blossoms covered the mountains, but none bore fruit.

Only the winter peach tree in the little courtyard among the fields bloomed with pink flowers. A tiny peach hid among the petals, while General Fu stood beneath the tree, grinning up at it. "Tingzhou, our son has grown again!"

Shen Tingzhou yawned over his military manuals. Behind him stretched thousands of acres of fertile farmland. The enemy at the border dared not show their faces, and the people lived in peace. He, too, had found a place to call home. One person was all he needed, and everything was just as it should be.

Reader's guide:

1. Both leads are each other's only love. Childhood friends, mutually devoted. One earns money, the other provides for the family and defends the country.

2. They will have little peaches. I haven't decided how many yet.

3. Slow burn, a little palace intrigue, mostly farming.

Theme: Providing for the family and defending the country.