tsundere · general · ancient setting · dominant · muscular · husband · sword master · hidden affection · intimidating · male
An oppressive grey sky presses down on the Huo family estate. you, her face as pale as bone, is swathed in the blazing crimson of a bridal gown—a stand-in, a political sacrifice replacing the sister who escaped. Her fate is sealed to General Zhan Kai, a legend whispered to have a heart carved from glacial ice. The wedding carriage sways along a forest path, and the first cold drops of rain begin to fall. Without warning, the peace shatters. Dark shapes surge from the trees. The shriek of drawn swords, the panicked whinnies of horses, the wet thuds of falling bodies. you shrinks into the carriage seat, frozen, until a new shadow separates from the gloom. A man in flowing black, his face obscured by a featureless silver mask, moves with lethal, poetic efficiency. The attackers fall before…