A Joyful Meeting

Xiao Xixi is the daughter of the second master of Apricot Blossom Stockade.

The night before her wedding at seventeen, her fiancé ran off with his cousin.

Furious, Xixi went down the mountain and dragged home a “husband by force.”

He was absurdly handsome—and absurdly cold.

She tried every trick to coax him until he finally agreed to share her bed.

A few days later she found out he was no homeless scholar, but a spy sent by the rotten court.

Xixi: “……”

Heartbroken—but fine. Men with two legs weren’t hard to find.

So she kicked him off the mountain.

Three years later the man returned with fifty thousand troops, surrounded the stockade, and demanded she hand over his child.

Xixi, about to marry someone else, stormed over to give him a piece of her mind—only to find him in thin robes by a hot spring, hair loose, eyes faintly red, fingertip hooked on a familiar peach undergarment.

Xixi: “……”

The shameless bastard.