Not a dual-virginity romance. The story is about the parents' generation. Don't read if that's not your thing.
[Beautiful, delicate, mature and gentle widower vs. powerful, ruthless, high-ranking general]
Blurb One
Xue Nanzhou has never had grand ambitions in life. He just wants to marry, have children, support his wife, raise his daughter, and live an ordinary, peaceful life with his family.
But life doesn't go according to plan. He doesn't know what he did to deserve it, but he's been married twice, and both times he was widowed!
His first wife was the girl next door, his childhood sweetheart. She died unexpectedly on their wedding night!
His second marriage was to the daughter of his parents' friend, but his wife never loved him. Still, he had a child, and he thought he could raise the child in peace and spend the rest of his life on cordial, if distant, terms with his wife.
But perhaps Heaven really couldn't stand to see him living such a peaceful, carefree life. Just as his child grew up and reached the age to marry and have a daughter of her own, the child's mother suddenly died, and he was a widower once again!
Although society values a man's chastity, it isn't strict about it. The court doesn't prevent widowers from remarrying, and people encourage men who have lost their wives to find new partners.
So once his three-year mourning period was over, matchmakers practically broke down the door of this handsome, mature widower...
Xue Nanzhou: "..." These women are so blinded by lust. Are they really not afraid I'll get them killed too?
After losing both his wives, Xue Nanzhou lost interest in remarrying. He shut the door and devoted himself to raising his child in peace.
But can someone tell him where this shameless, depraved brute came from? She's so brazen, so utterly without shame, and so indecent...
Blurb Two
Qi An has spent half her life on the battlefield. She's lawless by nature and rough around the edges, spending more time on horseback than asleep. Weapons, warhorses, and the power of life and death please her far more than beauties and treasures. At least, that's what she thought.
Then she realized she did appreciate beauty and cherish flowers, and that enjoying a little tenderness now and then wasn't so bad.
Later still, she decided that a gentle and considerate husband belonged in her courtyard like a delicate flower. It was good that those two short-lived men had died. What did people with so little fortune deserve, raising such a precious flower?
And later still, she learned that a fragile husband needed extra care, a cleanliness-loving husband required her to pay attention to hygiene, a refined husband needed her to read more, and a delicate, precious husband couldn't be approached too often...
General Qi An, "genuinely ruthless and vicious, falsely magnanimous and benevolent": "..." That last one is out of the question!
The male lead really is delicate, physically. The female lead really is rough, in her lifestyle.
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