Why Did You Run Away from Your Wedding Too?

When Wen Suizhi, the legitimate daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites, was three, her mother died. After her father remarried, her stepmother came up with an excuse to send her to her mother's sect, Medicine King Valley, supposedly to let her recuperate.

When Wen Suizhi was fifteen, a letter arrived from home telling her to get ready to return and marry.

She found out that the man her family had chosen had beaten three wives to death. Wen Suizhi immediately packed her things and fled Medicine King Valley.

Half a month later, while evading the people sent by her family and sect to find her, she made it to Cloth Alley in Jiangnan, a chaotic place filled with people from all walks of life.

By chance, Wen Suizhi overheard a woman next door sighing regretfully. "That poor scholar is going to sell himself... sell himself to that sort of place, just to earn money for his mother's medical treatment. What a shame."

Wen Suizhi: Huh? What perfect timing. I'm an excellent physician.

So Wen Suizhi found the frail, beautiful scholar and said, "Don't sell yourself. I can save your mother."

The scholar looked at her for a while, then smiled. "All right."

But after Wen Suizhi cured his mother, the man wouldn't leave her alone.

Wen Suizhi: "I'm going to the capital." She wanted to retrieve her mother's belongings.

The scholar: "What a coincidence. I'm going to the capital too." He was planning to break off his engagement.

Xie Lvhui was the world's greatest swordsman and the youngest disciple of the leader of the world's greatest sword sect, the Carefree Sword Sect. He had reached Grandmaster at fifteen, and the first fifteen years of his life had gone smoothly.

But when he tried to break through to the next level, he failed and suffered a backlash from his cultivation method.

His master looked at him and shook his head. "Sigh. You won't be breaking through anytime soon. Why not go get married?"

As it turned out, he had been betrothed since childhood. Why hadn't he known? Oh, his master had forgotten to tell him.

Xie Lvhui: "I have no interest in romance. My whole life is devoted to the sword."

His master: "Hmph."

Xie Lvhui quickly packed his things and ran off. He planned to go to the capital to break off his engagement. He also wanted to travel and see if he could make a breakthrough.

What he didn't expect was to be mistaken for a scholar who was selling himself by a young woman. She was going to the capital too, so he shamelessly insisted on traveling with her.

The martial world was dangerous. A young woman traveling alone really was at risk.

Later on.

Wen Suizhi: "My fiance has already beaten three wives to death. I hear he's forty. Who knows how much I'll suffer if I marry him?"

Xie Lvhui tightened his grip on his sword. If he ever ran into such a scoundrel, he would make him taste his blade.

When the truth came out:

#The scoundrel was me all along#

#Wait, when did I ever marry three wives?#

#This marriage really worked out perfectly#

Xie Lvhui: "Practicing the sword is one thing, getting married is another. How can you mix the two up?"

A super-rich, highly skilled physician heroine x a young, spirited genius swordsman hero who's terribly poor

[In this world, martial arts sects wield great power. Many sect leaders serve as imperial preceptors, and the martial world is closely tied to the imperial court.]

[The leads are actually betrothed to each other, but neither knows it. The heroine heard the news correctly, but only heard half of it. Her father and stepmother really do intend to marry her off to a scoundrel.]

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way