Marrying the Warlord Again

Li Ji found a woman among the dead on the battlefield. Though covered in grime, her extraordinary beauty remained undiminished. She was like a piece of jade fallen into the mud.

And the moment she saw him, tears welled in her eyes.

Her voice trembling, she called him, "Husband!"

Li Ji feared she was an enemy spy and had planned to finish her off with a single stroke. But now he silently lowered his blade,

and, as if possessed, took her back with him.

The woman introduced herself as Jiang Hanrou and claimed she had married him long ago.

Li Ji naturally didn't believe her. He was born into poverty and had lived through turbulent times. By the age of twenty, he had distinguished himself in campaigns across the land. Though handsome, he had killed so many on the battlefield that a dark, vicious aura seemed to hang about his face, making others afraid to approach. Naturally, no one dared to propose marriage to him.

Even so, his wariness only made him more curious about what she was really up to.

Yet Jiang Hanrou never seemed to slip up. She was tender and affectionate toward him, and attentive to him in every way.

She almost had Li Ji convinced that he had truly brought a wife home.

Before long, Jiang Hanrou had him so agitated that he decided to use his impending departure for the battlefield as an excuse to send her far away and see that she was properly settled.

But before Li Ji could even speak, Jiang Hanrou fainted.

The doctor came and told him she was two months pregnant.

Li Ji did the math. Two months ago, they hadn't even met.

Without realizing it, he clenched his hand until his knuckles turned white. She kept calling him her "husband,"

but whose child was she carrying?

Jiang Hanrou was a noblewoman from a distinguished family. She should have married a suitable man and lived a smooth, happy life. Sadly, born in troubled times, she couldn't escape the fate of becoming a rootless wanderer.

Just as she was about to be kidnapped and abused, someone reached out and saved her.

His name was Li Ji.

Jiang Hanrou had once thought that all crows were equally black, and that Li Ji must be just as bad as the rest.

But he only took her in, with no improper intentions.

As time passed, Jiang Hanrou truly came to stay by his side.

But their happiness didn't last. Li Ji died young while protecting her.

At his funeral, Jiang Hanrou swore a bitter oath. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the past, in the midst of war and chaos, still wearing her mourning clothes.

She saw a familiar figure walking toward her. Unable to hold back, she called out, "Husband!"

*The male lead is reborn and remembers his past with the female lead. The female lead transmigrates twice.

Theme: I followed the winding stream upstream, though the path was long and hard to cross.