"Yu Minghua wanted me to propose marrying her as my co-wife the next day, but it was clear that Yang Yingxue hadn't recovered from her injuries and was already reluctant to come out yesterday. I wanted to wait two days before bringing it up. But Yu Minghua said she was pregnant and couldn't wait.

I went to see my aunt, but she disagreed with taking me as a co-wife. She asked me, "What about Yu Minghua's background, character, personality, and talent qualifies her as a co-wife?" Yang Yingxue, a legitimate daughter of the Yang family, was married to me through formal marriage. We married her, and she provided a dowry. We're a perfect match. She's beautiful and talented, well-educated, and well-mannered. She could even take a bullet for you. So what kind of person did you find? Call her a co-wife? Is it because Yu Minghua got pregnant during sex? Are you stabbing your wife in the heart? She's been alone in her empty room for three years! She's still recovering from her injuries.

My aunt only agreed to take a concubine. Yu Minghua said that if I didn't marry her as a co-wife, she would make a scene at the Marquis's mansion and have a female doctor take her pulse and say she was pregnant with my child, but I refused to acknowledge it.

Yang Yingxue stayed at home to recuperate and didn't seem to want to take care of these things.

Yu Minghua broke into her yard and made a fuss, saying that her journey of thousands of miles to send the divorce letter was all fake and she was just pretending, so why didn't she divorce now?

After all this commotion, my stepmother came and several servants pinned Yu Minghua down. I couldn't bear it and pleaded with my stepmother, saying that she was pregnant.

My stepmother told me that your mother and Yingxue are both soft-hearted, but she isn't. Since she's pregnant, she should cherish the child and rest well. She's making such a fuss, but I'm afraid she doesn't care. If she doesn't care, why should others? You're the second son of a marquisate. If you're willing, why worry about no one bearing a child for you?

After saying that, he took out his father's letter and said to Yu Minghua, it's not that Yingxue doesn't want to divorce, it's that Jiangnan is still unwilling to sign the divorce papers. You should ask Jiangnan about this, and don't make a fuss here with Yingxue, otherwise she won't be able to recover from her injuries.

He also told me, "Your father clearly wrote in the letter: If you return and can live well, then live well. If not, then take your people and leave." The Jiang family will either have a daughter-in-law, Yingxue, or a daughter, Yingxue. But if we lose the daughter-in-law, we won't have a son either. Do you understand what he said?

Yu Minghua was carried back to her own courtyard by the servants arranged by her stepmother and was confined to her own courtyard for a month.

I have been staying in my own yard for this month and I feel relieved. One of them is recovering from an injury and the other is pregnant. I was worried about them and visited them often.

In the past three years, my elder brother has made a name for himself in the army, and I miss the barracks. I plan to return to the army with him after his vacation. I wrote to my father and he agreed.

Before I left, Yingxue persuaded her aunt to agree to marry Yu Minghua as a co-wife, but her body could not support it, so she asked two nannies from her stepmother's side to help her aunt and take care of the ceremony of marrying a co-wife.

On the day of our wedding, I ran away from the marriage. Now I have a concubine. I came to Yingxue's yard first. I felt uneasy and always felt that she still wanted to leave.

Sure enough, she told me that after joining the army, she would get along well with her father, and she would leave when we had resolved our past grudges.

Then she wished me a happy marriage and a long life together. She told me to hurry up and not miss the chance to lift the veil.

I stood outside her courtyard, feeling a mixture of emotions. I didn't know how long I'd been standing there when I heard two maids discussing how, on our wedding night, Yingxue had sat, covered with her veil, waiting for me all night. Only when the dragon and phoenix candles, each as thick as her forearm, burned out did she stand up. With a pale face, she told the maids not to reveal a single word to her father and brother.

No wonder she stayed alone in the empty house for more than a year, and her father, brothers and family members never found fault with my family until they died in the war.

I returned to Yu Minghua's yard and completed the process of marrying a concubine.

I wish time could go back three years so I can make up to the girl who sat there all night in boredom.

Five days later, my elder brother and I set off, and Yingxue was not among those who saw us off.

My elder brother and I had already arrived at Shili Pavilion. Before leaving, I didn't see Yingxue, and I couldn't let her go. So I found an excuse to ride back and climbed over the wall into her yard.

She was surprised, and I told her awkwardly that I just wanted to see her before leaving.

She thought for a moment, took out a peace amulet, put it in a sachet and gave it to me, wishing me a safe return.

Later, during countless days and nights in the army, I took out the amulet and opened it to look at it again and again. On it was my name and the treasure mirror of Tianyuan Temple, which she had asked for specifically for me.

During my one year in the army, I wrote countless letters to Yingxue, sometimes two a day, wanting to tell her everything.

I received only a few replies in the first six months, but gradually they increased. I also wrote to Yu Minghua, but she couldn't read much, and I was the one who taught her most of it. She had to find someone to read my letters to her, and she had to find someone to write her replies.

A year later, my eldest brother and I went home and saw my daughter for the first time. She hadn’t been named yet, as she was waiting for me. Yu Minghua gave her the nickname Chunliu, Jiang Chunliu, a little girl, very cute.

I suppressed my emotions in public, but at night, unable to suppress my longing any longer, I went to Yingxue's yard and hugged her tightly. Four years later, we truly became husband and wife.

It was then that I discovered that there was a box of things from our childhood in the North in her room, some small items. I suddenly felt that Yingxue might like me, without me knowing.

After staying at home for more than a month, my elder brother and I returned to the border. After returning to the border, I received a letter from home saying that Yingxue was pregnant. I was overjoyed.