[Brilliant in both letters and arms, a deceptively gentle chief minister x a first love who just wants to find her husband a match]
When Chu Mengran suddenly learns that her fiance has been involved with her half-sister, she sits alone all night before finally deciding to return their betrothal token and call off the engagement.
...Then someone slits her throat, because he can only marry someone else if she's dead.
When she opens her eyes again, bandits have her at knifepoint, just as before. Facing her is the handsome former fiance who came to her rescue back then.
But in this life, even if she dies at the hands of bandits, kneels to death in the ancestral hall, or never marries at all, she will never get engaged to him again!
That night, Song Chen'an has just prepared a gift for the woman he loves when, for no apparent reason, he receives word that she wants to break off their engagement?!
Ignoring the late hour, Song Chen'an mounts his horse and rides out. But as soon as he reaches the street, his vision blurs. When it clears, he sees the woman he loves being held at knifepoint by bandits across from him.
...Somehow, he has returned to two years earlier.
Song Chen'an had assumed that, just like in his previous life, the young woman would be his after they got engaged, and could only ever be his.
But for some inexplicable reason, this time she wants nothing to do with him!
If she won't marry him, then who does she think she can marry?
No matter how many times they start over, she can only ever be his!
The future chief minister remains calm and self-possessed, slowly but steadfastly drawing the young woman who wants to run away back into his arms, bit by bit.
As power changes hands and everyone in the capital lives in fear, he has grave responsibilities to shoulder, yet still never forgets to win back his wife.
