You Look Just Like My Late Husband

[Due to real-life circumstances, I can't guarantee a stable update schedule while this is serializing. I recommend saving it to read after it's finished.]

Ji Mingtang, the second daughter of the Minister Ji's family, suffers from severe face blindness.

On the first night after her marriage into the marquis's household, her husband, Song Heng, was summoned to the border by military orders. As a result, she had only a vague impression of the young and renowned Marquis of Dingbei, whose bearing was so impressive.

Two months later, news reached the capital that Song Heng had died of his injuries. After shedding a few tears at his funeral, Ji Mingtang moved to Jingshan Temple in the hills outside the city to "pray for her late husband."

Hehe, time to pack up and run away!

Life in the mountains was lonely. The only person she could order around was a scholar staying at the temple while preparing for the civil service examinations.

Although he was cool and distant, he was also handsome and elegant, with a bearing like a noble jade tree. His family seemed to have fallen on hard times, making him the perfect person for a generous, kindhearted woman like her to "support."

She never expected that support to land them in the same bed...

With a man by her side and no one to keep her in check, Ji Mingtang was living a charmed life at Jingshan Temple. The only thing she had to do was put on a show and pay respects to her long-deceased husband once a month.

Until one day, a maid from the marquis's household came to visit. When she saw the scholar, she looked as if she had seen a ghost.

"My lady, the, the young master is alive!"

The peerlessly handsome young man looked at her, his eyes unreadable, and said:

"Second Lady Ji, the memorial tablet in your room bears my name."

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Song Heng was born into a military family. At sixteen, he put aside his brush and took up arms. His reputation as the Marquis of Dingbei struck terror into his enemies.

At twenty-one, he was framed and gravely wounded. But he unexpectedly uncovered clues that someone in the imperial court was colluding with the enemy. He faked his death to escape, then took up temporary residence at Jingshan Temple outside the capital, intending to quietly root out this threat.

He could face his country and the spirits of his father and brothers, who had died in battle, without shame. The only person he had wronged was the wife who had just joined his household.

He had heard she came from a distinguished family and was gentle and refined by nature. Now, because of him, she would probably have to live as a widow for a while...

The young general, who had fought across countless battlefields, never expected that on the day after moving into Jingshan Temple, he would run into his newlywed wife copying sutras and praying for her "late husband."

Even more surprising, the wife he remembered as graceful and dignified was remarkably bold and forward around the identity he had invented.

"My family has quite a bit of money. If you don't pass the examinations this time, would you be willing to become my kept man?"

A shy, seemingly gentle and refined young lady who is actually unconventional and antisocial x a dark-hearted general pretending to be a gentleman

#An unconventional marriage-before-love story

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, three-year age gap

2. Entirely fictional setting, with a mashup of dynasties and many invented details

3. Neither lead is perfect. This may not suit readers with high moral standards for protagonists.

4. Anti-piracy protection: 70%, 72-hour delay

Theme: Lovers will find their way to each other.