[Sweet, Soft Girl VS Steady, Restrained Powerful Minister]
(Dual Purity, Childhood Sweethearts, Long-time Secret Crush Comes True)
Shen Mingshu was pampered by Jiang Xun as she grew up, but due to his strictness and coldness, she had always been terrified of him.
After being drugged, she was taken away by a young general, her childhood sweetheart. Because they were caught together, she had no choice but to marry him.
Who would have thought that the young general had someone else in his heart? On their wedding day, he brought a concubine into the household.
The young general favored his concubine to the bone while treating her with cold, harsh words.
When they went to the outskirts of the capital to burn incense and pray, horse bandits suddenly attacked. In his haste, the young general fled with his concubine, leaving her behind to the horse bandits…
To preserve her honor, Shen Mingshu threw herself onto a blade and died.
After death, she became a specter and watched with her own eyes as Jiang Xun avenged her and died for her sake…
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Upon opening her eyes, she returned to the night she was drugged.
Enduring the heat and discomfort, she went to find Jiang Xun, weeping as she threw herself into his arms.
“Brother…”
Her voice trembled, laced with a sob.
Shen Mingshu cried bitterly, her heart filled with the grievances she had suffered and her guilt and heartache for Jiang Xun.
She completely failed to notice that, in a place she couldn’t see, the tips of this habitually steady and restrained powerful minister’s ears were quietly flushing a faint red…
——
Later on, Shen Mingshu was pinned onto Jiang Xun’s lap.
Her waist was encircled by his iron-like arm, and her right hand was forcefully pried open as his fingers interlaced with hers, locking them tight.
In the dim candlelight, the corners of her eyes were flushed red. The man looked at her with a half-smile, his voice deep and raspy, “My sweet Mingshu, why are you crying?”
Shen Mingshu’s body couldn’t stop trembling.
Something was wrong!
But it seemed it was already too late…
