After the Family Head Was Forced to Marry a Disabled General

Blurb:

A self-effacing woman who leads her family × an aloof, disabled general with a leg injury. A story of the hero winning back his wife after losing her. The hero has a rough time early on.

Mu Lingxue's mother died in childbirth, and Mu Lingxue was raised under the care of the Mu family's principal wife.

She had a breathtakingly beautiful, harmless-looking face. She was always cautious and timid, putting on a fawning smile for everyone, all so she could scrape by in the Mu household.

But she never expected that people would constantly try to kill her. To stay alive, Mu Lingxue was forced to marry the disabled and reclusive eldest son of the Wen family.

She thought she could live out her days in peace, but fate had other plans, and she was forced to sneak away from the Wen household.

Wen Daalang had already despised her, and now his hatred grew. When they met again, he had become a famous general and loathed her completely. She began to fear the cold mask he wore.

She wanted to leave, but did not notice his icy expression as he turned to the emperor and obtained an imperial edict ordering their marriage.

Wen Yuqing thought he despised her, resenting her for trampling on the sincerity he had once offered her.

He hated even more how she schemed at every turn and smiled ingratiatingly at everyone.

But then he happened to see her chatting and laughing with another man, her smile open and unguarded, and he was overcome with complicated feelings.

He had never imagined he would use all his military merits just to obtain an imperial edict ordering their marriage.

Whether he despised her or looked down on her, he would keep her by his side for the rest of his life.

The leads save each other and grow together.

Both leads are virgins.

A healing, heartwarming story, with the hero suffering most of the angst. Domestic warmth, marriage first and love later, and a husband trying to win back his wife.

Note: The heroine's father, older sister, and stepmother are all villains!

Coming Soon: Spring Colors Cannot Be Locked Away, Situ Xiao and Ning He

Content warning: The hero has to win back his wife, the heroine will suffer, and the hero takes most of the angst later on.

Ning He married into the Situ household as the concubine-born son’s bride, dressed in a phoenix crown and red wedding robes. On their wedding night, her husband gave her a cold reply: "Don't touch me."

Everyone said she was lucky:

Her grandfather traded his military command for her marriage to the top-ranked candidate in the palace exams. Within half a year, her husband rose to become Grand Secretary. She really was fortunate!

Only Ning He knew the truth:

Her husband's study held a portrait of his sister-in-law. While Ning He was coughing blood from a chill, he was searching for a snow lotus on the Heavenly Mountain for his sister-in-law. When her grandfather was falsely accused of treason, he casually crushed the petition written in her blood as she knelt before him.

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When Situ Xiao realized his gentle little wife had suddenly changed

She pawned the jade pendant that symbolized their love and opened a cosmetics shop. She personally burned the thousands of pages of books she had copied for him. She even smiled as she drank the birth-control decoction in one gulp: "Since you don't want to consummate the marriage, I understand."

Then she stumbled upon the bloody truth:

Behind her grandfather's death on the battlefield lay irrefutable proof that her beloved's father and daughter had committed treason. Beneath the Situ family's respectable facade lay the unjustly murdered souls of her father and brothers!

Ning He set the Grand Secretary's residence ablaze and left her husband, who held power over the entire court, a letter of divorce: "May you and the one in your heart never be parted, in life or in death."

But she did not know that Situ Xiao had torn the divorce letter to shreds in a frenzy and turned the merchant caravan heading south upside down. A shadow guard trembled as he presented a bloodstained jade hairpin. "The madam is at Mount Cangwu... She fell off a cliff."

Three years later, at a spring banquet in Yunnan, the newly crowned richest woman in the land, Ning He, reclined on a Xiangfei couch and looked down at her former husband, tormented by Gu poison:

"Does the Grand Secretary understand my pain back then?"

Situ Xiao pinned her against a jade screen, his eyes bloodshot and his throat working with overwhelming regret:

"A He, you can cut out my heart or bleed me dry, whatever you want... But first, will you accept our child's one-month celebration gift?"

Later, a story spread throughout the capital:

The Grand Secretary, who could make enemy ships vanish in smoke with a laugh, now feared three things most of all:

Half a divorce letter in his wife's embroidery box, the Guide to Divorcing Your Husband in his son's hands, and... the pair of mandarin duck pillows in their bedroom, with one half always empty.

Content Warnings:

1. The first love is the elder brother's fiancée, not his wife. Both leads are virgins.

2. A deranged Grand Secretary tries to win his wife back, in a story featuring the trope of the first love being one's sister-in-law.

Theme: Be positive and strive toward the light.