The General's Wife Is Sweet and Gentle

After being rejected by the Lin family, Qiu Xiaochan came back to life seeming like a different person. She no longer chased after Scholar Lin, but under the laws of Great Zhou, any woman who remained unmarried upon reaching adulthood had to be assigned a match by the official matchmaker. So she had to marry someone once she came of age.

He was a great general whose achievements had made the emperor wary. The emperor demoted him eighteen ranks, reducing him to a night watchman. What better way to prove his loyalty to the emperor than to marry a woman with a notorious reputation? She needed a husband so she could avenge the man who had abandoned her; he needed a lowborn wife to save his own life. The matchmaker said they were made for each other, so why not give it a try?