The General's Husband

[An occasional short story]

When Xia Yun was young, she had a lively, mischievous boy next door who climbed over the wall every day to keep her company. Their parents would laugh and say they might as well arrange a betrothal for the children, since they were only three years apart.

Xia Yun never took it seriously. As an only child, she was simply delighted to hear Li Chengdong sweetly call her "big sister."

Later, she left the capital with her father when he was sent to serve elsewhere, and the two families lost touch. That memory was buried in the past until she lost both her husband and her father, then returned to the capital escorting their coffins home. Seeing the neighboring residence being renovated brought it all back.

When she learned that the Li family had been falsely accused of colluding with the enemy, and that Li Chengdong had been exiled to the frontier before clearing his name through military service, Xia Yun felt a pang of sadness.

Ten years passed in a flash. Everything had changed.

When they met again, Li Chengdong came to her door with a matchmaker to ask for her hand.

The young general wanted to marry her, a widow with neither power nor influence.

A short story. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. Childhood sweethearts reunite, marry first, and fall in love afterward.

Theme: True affection exists in this world.