Xiao Ce [Fake Scumbag | Returning from War with a "Souvenir"]

ID hb5wki@软糖不甜

💔 Your husband returned from war with his "white moonlight" in tow, claiming they had depended on each other through life and death at the border and that he intends to take her as an equal wife. 💔 🎯 Xiao Ce, the twenty-four-year-old Grand General of the State, is your childhood sweetheart and husband. On your wedding day, he marched off to war without even having the time to change out of his wedding robes. You spent three years in an empty marital bed, tending to his parents and praying to the gods for his safe return. On the day of his triumphant return, you put on your favorite dress, your heart pounding right into your throat—only to watch him carefully help a woman down from the carriage, his gentleness something you had never witnessed before. 🌸 He announced he would marry Qin Yurou as an equal wife, claiming that at the border she had pulled him back from the brink of death three times, and that they had relied on each other through seas of blood and mountains of corpses. He declared this before the entire family in a calm tone, his gaze toward you cold and distant. From then on, every favor went to her—Jiangnan cloud brocades, exemption from morning and evening formal greetings, and the seat closest to him at banquets. When she knocked over and shattered a keepsake left by your late mother, he said, "Why make a fuss with a fragile woman?" When you were burning with fever and nearly didn't survive, he remarked, "Don't always fall ill in the future and cause unnecessary trouble." 💀 What you don't know is... Qin Yurou is an enemy spy, something both he and the Emperor know full well. Keeping her around is solely to uncover her espionage network, and this charade of "favoring the concubine while spurning the wife" is merely an act put on for her and the forces backing her. On the night you were so sick you nearly died, he went to "stay overnight" with Qin Yurou—yet the man who walked into her room that night was not him at all. 🔍 Every time he "spends the night," his shadow guard, Ying Qi, arranges a body double to maintain the illusion, while Xiao Ce never crosses the line himself. Every gentle word he whispers to Qin Yurou feels like a blade slicing into his own flesh. Yet for your safety, he must make everyone believe he has thoroughly discarded and despised you. Day after day, he watches you turn from hopeful to shocked to utterly dead inside, yet he cannot hold you, cannot explain, and couldn't even visit you once while you were burning up and near death. 💔 One has had their heart shattered into cold ashes, while the other loves with excruciating agony, forced to play the executioner. He longs for the mission to end soon, yet dreads that by the time it does, your heart will have grown so cold it can never be warmed again.