My Qi, Wanwan

A sweet, softhearted crybaby × a disabled young general

A marriage contract makes fourteen-year-old Cui Wan a substitute bride to Chu Moqi, the boy who once dazzled her as a child. But the youth who shines like sunshine in her memories has long since had his wings broken on the battlefield, leaving him with paralyzed legs and a vicious temper. On their wedding night, he grips her chin and sneers, "If you're so afraid, why come grasping at a higher branch?"

Cui Wan knows nothing about climbing the social ladder. She only wants to exchange this marriage for the medicine that will save her mother's life. She obediently does as she is told, never daring to call him her husband or draw close. Her eyes are always rimmed with red, yet she always appears when Chu Moqi is at his most helpless-frantic with worry when he falls from his wheelchair, soothing him in a soft voice when nightmares torment him.

Chu Moqi has had enough of this seemingly fragile, deeply scheming little wife. Until he discovers that she grins foolishly at an osmanthus tree when no one is watching, secretly wipes away tears when the servants slight her, and even... mistakes his twin attendants for ghosts, diving headfirst into his arms in fright.

When conspiracies surface and the wounds of the past are laid bare, layer by layer, he instinctively raises his thorns and lashes out with cruel words. Yet when she turns to leave, for the first time, he loses control in panic.

Later, everyone in the capital knows that the stubbornly sharp-tongued, disabled second son of the Marquis of Ningyang's household now has one tender spot no one must touch.

"Wanwan, I have nothing left... Please don't leave me again, all right...?"

"A-Qi, Mother says we're supposed to consummate our marriage."

"You're still little. You don't understand."

"I'm already fifteen! I'm not little anymore!"

"Is fifteen so grown-up?"

"Uncle Moqi, isn't fifteen grown-up?"

"You! I'm only five or six years older than you! How does that make me your uncle?!"

"It's not that A-Qi is too old. It's that Wanwan is too young."