The General Steals a Bride

In Fengxin Commandery, Shen Shisan saved Jiang Rou's life, chopping off the head of the Xiongnu soldier who had tried to violate her. His foul-smelling blood splattered all over her, and in that moment, he seemed to her a peerless hero.

Later... her peerless hero violated her too, but he did not ride in on seven-colored clouds to marry her.

Because she refused.

The hero was a proud man. “I'm the mighty General of the Northern Campaign. I'm willing to take a commoner like you as my concubine, and you still refuse? What, you think you can be the general's wife? If you won't, then pack your things and get lost, before I lose my temper one day and stab you to death, you wretched woman.”

Jiang Rou left.

She went to a more remote village to escape the war.

One day, a refined stranger suddenly came to ask for her hand in marriage.

She felt she was no longer an innocent young maiden, so she was naturally unworthy of such a handsome man. She refused: “I am but a widow, and not worthy of you, sir. Please go home.”

The man was taken aback. “You're a widow?”

She nodded and gestured toward the door.

The man looked conflicted. After thinking it over for a long time, he gritted his teeth and left.

The next day, he showed up with betrothal gifts. “I'll marry a widow too.”

And so, she was brought into the house beneath a red wedding veil.

On their wedding night, he lifted her veil, and Jiang Rou screamed. Her husband had been switched!

The refined, courteous young gentleman had turned into the very bastard who had violated her.

“Why is it you?”

“Why wouldn't it be me?”

“...Then who... where did he go?” Only then did she realize she didn't even know the name of the man who had formally married her.

“Who?”

She blushed shyly. “M-my husband.”

The peerless bastard was impatient. “Aren't I right here?”