The General’s Wife Is Frail and Sickly

Also known as A Misunderstanding

A sickly beauty who knows exactly how to act cute x a young general who says one thing but means another | Marriage before love | Size difference | Lighthearted and sweet

Qin Kuang was born with extraordinary strength and had won countless honors on the battlefield. At twenty, he returned to the capital with his father and, by imperial decree, married Yu Roujia, daughter of the Duke of Ning.

Word had it that the Duke of Ning had personally petitioned the emperor for this marriage.

On their wedding night, Young General Qin looked at the sickly beauty before him and felt utterly ill at ease.

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Newly married, Qin Kuang was practicing archery against others when Yu Roujia had someone bring over a chaise longue and a spread of tea and snacks. She sat nearby, cheering him on.

The unromantic Qin Kuang: "What a fuss."

During the autumn hunt, Qin Kuang accidentally scraped his finger. Yu Roujia applied medicine to it with tears in her eyes, softly praying, "Please, please live to be a hundred."

Qin Kuang, who had grown up surrounded by swords, spears, staffs, and clubs: ...At this rate, the wound will have healed before you're done.

Whenever they had a disagreement, Yu Roujia would bundle up in thick clothes and gaze at him imploringly.

Looking at his wife's pale face, Qin Kuang's heart softened after all. She liked him so much. If being unwell made her a little more delicate and clingy, what was wrong with that?

When Qin Kuang's birthday arrived, the reception hall was bustling with people. Now and then, someone would remark that Young General Qin and his wife were perfectly suited to each other and treated each other with affection.

Qin Kuang smiled, then realized that Yu Roujia had yet to appear.

The usually easygoing man furrowed his brow and walked slowly toward the main courtyard. A faint anticipation stirred in his heart:

He wondered what birthday gift she had prepared for him...

Beneath the covered walkway in the main courtyard, Yu Roujia was whispering with her personal maid.

"After spending every day with the young general for the past year, my lady's health really has improved so much."

"So the yang energy coming from the west really can keep me healthy year after year."

Young General Qin, who had overheard them: ...

1. All the worldbuilding and plot serve the romance. This is a pure, sweet love story, with one couple and a happy ending. The heroine will regain her health.

2. The likely dealbreakers are all in the blurb.

3. The heroine's name comes from the line, "Zhong Shanfu's virtue: gentleness and grace are his model."

Theme: Sincerity is repaid with sincerity.