Listening to Wan Yi

■Dignified on the outside, rebellious at heart, widowed empress x easily flustered northwestern prince and general who wants to rebel

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When A Zhou woke up, he remembered nothing. The only person beside him was a gentle, beautiful woman, frowning as she bandaged his wound.

She looked genuinely worried about him.

She said his name was A Zhou, and that he was her new husband. Seeing the love and tenderness in her eyes, he believed her.

She said they should take their time getting closer, so he patiently endured her teasing, blushing but never pushing her away.

She said she wanted to have another wedding, so he quietly went to cut down trees to make furniture and traveled more than ten miles to town to buy cloth.

She said she wanted a child, so he put all his strength into trying...

A Zhou thought his wife was wonderful in every way, except that she always seemed to be hiding things from him.

Pigeons appeared every few days, and mountain folk came by for no apparent reason to deliver things... He had accumulated countless questions, but no answers.

Then one day, she handed him a bowl of sweet soup as usual. He drank it happily, then collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

When he woke again, he was in a military camp. Memories of everything that had happened came flooding back, and his face darkened.

The late emperor's youngest brother was named Pei Ye, courtesy name Chengzhou.

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