General, Stop Teasing Me

On the day of the wedding, it was not the ailing Owen Langley who held the unity knot with her, but Neil Langley. Owen left behind a divorce letter and passed away. Neil went to the frontier, while Ella Warner stayed behind, raising a little girl and her grandmother-in-law, and set up a tofu pudding stall on the street. Until the war hero returned as a decorated general, determined to marry his widowed sister-in-law. Everyone believed it was out of gratitude—only he knew that in those near-death, freezing nights beyond the border, it was her letters, her hand-stitched knee pads and inner garments that pulled him from the piles of dead and led him home.

On the day of the wedding, it was not the ailing Owen Langley who held the unity knot with her, but Neil Langley. Owen left behind a divorce letter and passed away. Neil went to the frontier, while Ella Warner stayed behind, raising a little girl and her grandmother-in-law, and set up a tofu pudding stall on the street. Until the war hero returned as a decorated general, determined to marry his widowed sister-in-law. Everyone believed it was out of gratitude—only he knew that in those near-death, freezing nights beyond the border, it was her letters, her hand-stitched knee pads and inner garments that pulled him from the piles of dead and led him home.