The General I Took In Became My Widowed Husband

#Both leads are each other's only one, happy ending. The heroine isn't dead | The hero has realized his feelings | 50% of the text is locked

Yuan Xue'an found a dying man.

He had naturally brown eyes, probably mixed with foreign blood, and striking, deep-set features. He was tall and powerfully built.

Taking care of him was quite a struggle, especially when she had to wipe him down. He refused to cooperate and snarled at her like a wolfhound.

He was surprisingly chaste, too.

But after the man's injuries healed, he stopped being fierce. He wrung out the clothes she washed until they were nearly dry, and occasionally hunted game to help nourish her. He stuck closer to her than the big black dog she'd raised.

Yuan Xue'an vaguely sensed his feelings, but as the daughter of a concubine, she had long seen how cold and heartless the world could be. She had no desire to get involved, so she pretended not to notice.

But when it was time to part, the man's eyes turned dark.

"Why are you sending me away? What's wrong with me? Why can't I be your husband?"

Yuan Xue'an: ?

She cautiously tried to persuade him.

"Are you still upset about when I wiped you down...? Don't take it to heart. When I used to practice medicine, you weren't the only man I'd seen. I've seen men I liked better..."

The man's face suddenly turned terribly grim. He went out into the rain as if in a huff, then returned, soaked, in the middle of the night and knocked on her door.

He said, "I've figured it out."

Yuan Xue'an breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next moment, his large hand clamped around her waist. His thin lips brushed the side of her neck as he spoke in a cold, hoarse voice.

"Seeing isn't enough."

"You have to try me to know who's best."

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As the Great Sheng's General Who Subdues the Barbarians and its renowned number-one killing god, Xie Zhou never imagined he'd be framed as a spy and nearly killed by his own people.

In this vast world, he had no country or home left.

But the faint, clean scent of medicine on his savior was somehow soothing. He slept especially soundly beside her bed.

He thought he wouldn't mind spending the rest of his life with her, even without a proper status.

But one day, she was gone.

And he picked up his blades once more to defend her homeland.

When noble young ladies showed an interest in him, Xie Zhou coldly turned them away, saying his heart belonged to his late wife and he would never remarry.

During festivals, he shut himself away. When he drank himself into a stupor, only a black dog kept him company.

Everyone sighed and said General Xie was a devoted man.

But one day, a young lady seemed to drop from the sky. She was beautiful and refined, but had been injured in the head and couldn't remember many things.

The moment General Xie saw her, he lost his soul.

Note: Romance-focused, 1v1 sweet romance, fictional setting, so don't overthink the details.

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Ji Shaoyi came from a good family, was beautiful, and even her betrothed, Lin Zheng, was a young man of the Lin family, hailed alongside the current Crown Prince as one of the capital's two most promising men.

They had grown up together and shared deep feelings for each other. Their romance was the talk of the capital.

Then one day, Ji Shaoyi caught Lin Zheng cheating with her own eyes.

Ji Shaoyi pretended to take it in stride and threw their relationship away like trash. Where she'd once looked at Lin Zheng with tender affection, she now treated him with icy indifference.

In private, however, her heart was shattered, and she went to cry many times in front of her considerate cousin, Xiao Shenzhi.

Once, she cried herself to sleep. When she awoke, she was on the warm couch in the Eastern Palace's bedchamber. Xiao Shenzhi sat at the edge of the bed, smiling and asking if she'd slept well, without a hint of reproach.

Ji Shaoyi became even more grateful to, more admiring of, and more dependent on her cousin.

When Lin Zheng tried to win her back, he kept insisting that Xiao Shenzhi had drugged him and that he'd been unable to control himself.

Ji Shaoyi berated him. "Everyone knows my cousin is scrupulously impartial and disciplined. How could he do something like that? Besides, what motive would he have?"

But later, Ji Shaoyi never dreamed that she would one day sit in the lap of that unattainable man, her body limp and her skin slick with sweat.

"A-Shao, open your eyes and look."

Ji Shaoyi squeezed her eyes shut, unwilling to see the filth on his fingertips.

"I was the one who drugged Lin Zheng."

Ji Shaoyi's eyes flew open.

"But that drug only causes sweating. It doesn't arouse anyone."

"A-Shao, he chose to debase himself."

"And what about you?"

Ji Shaoyi gasped for breath, refusing to make a sound.

Xiao Shenzhi chuckled softly. "I knew it. You love me too."

Theme: Cherish the one you have.