FL and ML both agreed to get divorced and that the whole marriage was just a pretend thing. However ML got drugged by the emperor during the wedding night and ended up doing the mattress mambo with the FL. The part that made this a bit different was that ML recognised it for what it was - r*pe - and felt guilty about it, resolving to take responsibility by _not_ divorcing FL. FL, on the other hand, seemed to not give a sh*t about what just happened and still wanted to get a divorce, which was an interestingly different reaction from what I expected. It looked like she's so determined to make it out there as her own person (instead of a general's wife) that the loss of her c*astity made no difference as she never planned to be married again, ever.

I'm talking about the losing the child thing and then blaming her for losing a child that is HIS not hers. Also blaming her for essentially not taking care of the child but where were YOU when the child went missing. BUSY WITH YOUR DAMN WORK?

The male lead has a little kid and the kid is hella cute once you get past like the first 10 chapters. Adorable as f*ck.

The female lead had a rather unfortunate background with love to where every man she ever loved ends up with someone else before she even gets the chance and in the end, the one she was going to marry fell off a horse and died. This backstory was more comedic than heartbreaking and she simply decides to get over it and continue her life. I mention this because she was very strong to do so. Her mother died when young and she was "fat and ugly" to which she was ignored by her father and others. On top of her constant failed marriage arrangements, she had been talked down upon and had to deal with rumors of being t00 old now for not being married at 20, and was accused to bring her husband's misfortune if they were to marry her. Alas with surviving with no backer she runs her family's business wonderfully and aspires to expand to the capital as a way to better herself and challenge herself to new opportunities.

That is until she gets another marriage offer from her father's close friend, who previously recommended her twice which both failed miserably. She tries to refuse this knowledge and also prevent her aunt from stealing her glory and business. This doesn't work as it was an edict from the emperor to marry the acclaimed general. She absolutely hates this idea not too much because she gave up on marriage but because when she was younger she had gotten bullied and punched a kid. In his point of view tho she had randomly punched his friend and said no one would want her and that she would have a bad marriage history and that even if all women were to be dead he still wouldn't marry her (along those lines). He says how do you remember this its been ten years and she responds that with her bad experiences and it coming true it was hard to forget.

He promises her that they'll divorce after a month due to their unwanted marriage.

As I mentioned she gets r*ped by the ml. The ML gets drugged and helps her drink water after that he feels hot himself and looks for something also. She's sleeping peacefully and the next thing we know in the next chapter is her yelling if he had enough. Low and behold he snaps out of it and realizes he r*ped her and apologizes

In the story's words the "child king" wants the general to get married and have a child so that he would stop going to war because they were in poverty. But no not because of the country and the people itself but the treasury. The king is mad that he can't build a vacation spot for himself. So he drugs the general to where he r*pes her. The general said that he'll take responsibility and not divorce her and she's like no way in hell, you better follow through with the divorce when I didn't want to be in this situation in the first place. And he agrees but once again his pride gets the better of him and he had gotten mad that she still doesn't stand him, which objectively yeah it's hurtful but you just r*ped her, fix your attitude. The general gets summoned to the king and as the kind was eating sweets he's like no don't talk scold me about eating sweets and the war. And also don't talk about or blame the person who drugged you, your not allowed to talk about it. So right then and there her r*pe case can't even be addressed.

The first issue was that they had almost left her personal maid standing out all night without giving her a proper room, even though she should be in the room next to her. This was planned by one of the concubines but the grandmother let it test her. The second issue was that the same concubine convinced the son to hate her and talk bad about her. Which she didn't hold a grudge because he's just a child but even when this was revealed the grandma didn't do anything but punish them instead of her. This was because she may have the backing of the emperor and her family but then it says that the grandma is so high and mighty and could solve the issues if she wants to?? Then the grandma forces the responsibility of being the hostess onto her and says that even though she knows she's capable, she doubts that she's faithful to the household. Of course, she just got married, r*ped, and a rude *ss husband and bad welcome experience. On top of that, she tried to reject you about 3 times which you decline each time. I am astonished and too surprised.

at first, it was because they were drugged more than once... but the next one's were because it was voluntary LOL

-they realized that they weren't as hostile as before compared to when they got married.. they had a child.. it wasn't really specified if they had a son or daughter...

If I understood it right based on MTL, Xuanzi is SSAs sister's son and the father is his friend... I'm not quite sure tho if she's a blood related sister (she died during the war).... oh well... he has Su Tang now and he's smitten and that's that

it occurs only once during the wedding night, ML drugged by a dose of aphrodisiac so strong it was tested on Horses lol

FL calls nicknamed him 'pan of cold noodles' and even calls him 'cold noodles' to his face lol'

the ending is about the little emperor that finally found his little empress and waiting for her to be grown up so they finally can be married. I believe the little emperor is 14 and the soon-to-little-empress is 12-13. So when she's at 16 and the little emperor want to married her, she left because she's felt bored. And that's that. That's the ending.