Summer Blaze (Originally: Jin Dynasty)

Song Jinchao is the illegitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites. Her mother was a songstress given to her father by a colleague twenty years ago.

But Song Jinchao has always been strong-willed. Since the household looked down on her and her mother, she stepped forward of her own accord at the age of seven and offered to become a nun in place of her legitimate elder sister, who had been frail and sickly since birth.

Her mother cried until she was unrecognizable, but couldn't keep her daughter. At least she managed to protect the second child she was carrying, who had yet to show.

Song Jinchao entered a Taoist temple. Instead of becoming a lowly nun, she learned formidable martial arts and the mysterious arts of face reading and fortune-telling.

Ever since her half-sister Song Jinshu had someone take her place in the temple, her health improved day by day. The proud young noblewoman therefore sends fifty taels of silver to the temple every year,

hoping Song Jinchao will stay there quietly and live a good life.

But no plan can withstand the whims of fate. Shen Hui, the General Who Pacifies the South, has returned to court.

At fifteen, Shen Hui joined the army. At twenty-five, he won a great victory against the southern barbarians, the Nanqiang, and was named the General Who Pacifies the South. At thirty, he reclaimed eight southern prefectures and returned to court with his troops.

Unfortunately, he was struck by a stray arrow in the final battle, fell from his horse, broke his leg, and was disfigured.

They say he has a terrible temper, too. When he gets angry, he kills his adjutants and attendants on the spot. He hasn't married by the age of thirty because three of his fiancées have already died one after another.

After he returned to the capital, the Emperor bestowed on Shen Hui the title of Duke Who Guards the Nation, but took away his military command. As compensation, he arranged for Shen Hui to marry Song Jinshu.

Song Jinshu was completely unwilling to marry him and wept day and night at home. Then the whole family remembered Song Jinchao, who had been left at the temple all this time.

Replacement bride. Married first, love later.

Heroine: 18. Hero: 30. Age gap.

One-on-one romance.

Theme: Live on with hope, always