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Baili Yun comes home on leave and suddenly learns that he is to be married.
Little does he know that by the wedding day, the person inside the bridal sedan has already been switched.
Lin Yao agrees to marry Baili Yun in another woman’s place for one reason only: to uncover the truth behind her family’s destruction.
Seeing Lin Yao marry him without regard for her reputation, Baili Yun assumes she has gone to great lengths for some ulterior motive.
“You put on a show of being agreeable, smiling at everyone you meet, yet you’ve lost your integrity.” On their wedding night, Baili Yun raises his brows slightly, his smile ambiguous. “I know you’re approaching me with an ulterior motive.”
His new bride merely jokes and banters with him.
When he is framed and thrown into prison, his heart as lifeless as ash, he never expects his wife, the one with an ulterior motive, to tear up their divorce papers and stay by his side.
When he is demoted and sent away from the capital, Lin Yao doesn’t hesitate to travel north with him.
In the autumn of the tenth year of Yongyan, dappled shadows from the carved window fall across the desk, layered over one another. Baili Yun picks up his brush and adds a few words to the bamboo paper.
“Early summer, when the trees were lush and shaded, I was convicted and imprisoned.
I endured every manner of torture, my body covered in scars. I did not wish to defend myself. My heart was cold and hopeless.
I closed my eyes and calmly awaited death.
Then my wife came, stood before me, and rekindled my will to live.”
With green trees lining the courtyard, he looks at his wife, the one with an ulterior motive, through the lush foliage, and suddenly realizes that everything he had thought before was utterly ridiculous.
So be it.
What did it matter if she had an ulterior motive?
When he returns to the capital, Baili Yun rises swiftly through the ranks, but his wife, the one with an ulterior motive, asks to divorce him.
That night, he tosses and turns, unable to sleep.
He has always believed his integrity exceptional. Though he has weathered the ups and downs of officialdom and been demoted several times, he has never lost a gentleman’s heart.
A gentleman helps others achieve their happiness.
But at this moment, he no longer wants to be a gentleman.
Theme: Stay true to freedom, stay true to yourself
Ah, is it over? It's too short, and this is be, no, 😭 😭 This is strictly an open ending, right 😭
"Listening to the words of others, it is sad to hear them. All the taxes on the family fields are lost, and this is left to satisfy the hunger." The miserable situation of the people being exploited is experienced to the extreme in this sentence. It is not something worthy of praise no matter how you look at it, how can the people spread it word of mouth? 🤔
I always feel that Mr. Cha Songnian is a good person. In order to prove his own truth, he does not hesitate to get involved with his own life 🤗 If you want to know what happened next, I will finish it slowly.
This article is really good! The writing style is light and comfortable, and even though it failed in the end, it didn't feel unexpected. However, the pace of plot advancement is a bit chaotic, especially in the later stages, it is too fast.
I'm very sad about this ending, Beibei, can you do some extras? This is not what he is 😭 😭
"Yu" is a big thorn in the side of the author~ with
"He" gave the author a big worm~ her
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Beibei, have you seen the New Year blessings for you 🐶
The big words are so powerful, I love them 🌈