The Orchid May Wither, but Jade Will Not Break

[A sickly beauty who coughs blood into the wind x a fake wastrel, real-born hero]

[Not a female-emperor story | Not a hard-core political intrigue story]

When Xiao Jue first met Xie Lanshi, he thought this peerless beauty among the noblewomen of Danyang was someone any capable man would want to claim.

After the two married, Xiao Jue realized that all the heroes under heaven thought the same way.

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Born into the prestigious Xie clan of Danyang, a family of ministers for four generations, Xie Lanshi was renowned for her talent and beauty. In both her lives, she had been the unattainable moon in the sky to countless men.

That is, until she dreamed that in the future her whole family would be wiped out, and her husband would personally offer her to a regional warlord.

When she opened her eyes again, only an hour remained before the heir of the Prince of Langya forced her to marry him;

And her father was at a banquet, refusing a frontier general from Liangzhou, a backwater far from the capital.

Xie Lanshi knew that this frontier general would rise to become a warlord in the chaotic years to come.

She also knew that before his great ambitions could be realized, he would die in a failed revenge.

Xie Lanshi: I'll take him.

If I'm going to die sooner or later, I might as well have him fend off the rotten peach blossoms of this chaotic age for me before he dies.

[Extra Scene]

The first time men coveting Xie Lanshi chased Xiao Jue down to kill him, he narrowly escaped with his life, his gaze full of menace:

This woman is frail but vicious, full of schemes. When the time is right, I'll cut ties with her once and for all.

The second time, Xiao Jue crawled out of a pile of corpses, wiped the blood off his face, and laughed furiously:

Raise his wife? As if those men deserve her!

Then came the third time, the fourth...

Xie Lanshi kept waiting for the day Xiao Jue couldn't take it anymore and divorced her.

Yet from the spring night in Yangzhou, with corpses everywhere, to the bitterly cold winter months in Chang'an,

That young general who never showed her the slightest warmth braved wind and rain, kept his steps steady, and gritted his teeth as he carried her through one deadly ordeal after another.

Leaning against his shoulder, Xie Lanshi thought,

Perhaps she could keep playing the loving wife to this sham husband for a few more days.

[Young married couple x partners in a chaotic age]

[Please Read Beforehand]

- A fictional setting inspired by the late Han and Wei-Jin periods.

- The heroine is not an ambitious, strong-willed woman, and this is not a story about her conquering the world. The plot and romance are split evenly.

- Includes elements of taking someone by force, a woman disguising herself as a man, and a heroine admired by everyone.

- A writing practice novel. One-on-one pairing. Both leads are virgins in the main story; in the prophetic dream, the male lead is a virgin and the female lead is not. Not a rebirth story.

- This story is essentially the product of an obsession with the Three Kingdoms. If anything seems familiar, first consider whether it draws on the same historical sources.

Theme: If only all people could eat their fill, I would not begrudge lying ill in the setting sun