Perfect Match (Hearts in Harmony)

Original Title: 璧合 (Perfect Match)

Description:

Deng Ruyun came from the countryside and was of humble origin. Everyone said that she was incredibly lucky to marry the youngest general in Xi’an Prefecture.

Deng Ruyun just smiled when she heard these words, never offering any explanation.

Her husband indeed had a bright future. At a young age, he had seized military power on his own. He was also handsome and brave. When he rode his horse through the streets, no one could help but take a second look.

Deng Ruyun had once gazed up at him from the roadside, her eyes dazzled by his triumphant return, adorned with a red tassel on his head, seated high on his horse. She had even felt a stirring of her girlish heart for him…

Now that she’s married to him, everyone is envious, saying she’s hit the jackpot.

However, when he returned victorious from a battle and spotted her in the crowd, his eyes lit up as he strode toward her, she quietly retreated to the very back of the crowd.

How could an ordinary girl from the countryside really become the wife of such a promising young general?

This was nothing more than a contract that even he was unaware of.

On the day the contract is signed, they will be bound by marriage; when the contract ends, she will divorce him as agreed.

She would leave behind a divorce agreement, depart from his life, and quietly disappear into the crowd.

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That year, Deng Ruyun was penniless and had no money to support her elderly grandmother or treat her aunt who had broken her leg. She was also being eyed by the spoiled son of a local gentry.

Just then, the old lady from the general’s mansion suddenly came to the door. The old lady asked her if she was willing to “marry” into the Teng family for three years. If things went smoothly, she could get the Teng family’s protection and a large sum of money.

It was like giving someone a cotton coat in the wind and snow, and Deng Ruyun agreed without hesitation.

She needed this money.