The young general was named Ye Weida, styled Xiao Yang, in his early teens, and at his age, he had not yet settled down, something his mother in the Capital City would typically arrange for him.
However, being just a young general in the army, no matter how capable he was, many thought that marrying him would mean following the army, and if not, they would be separated by distance, which made families who cherished their daughters disinclined to choose him.
Though of high birth, he was trapped by the preferences for literature over martial arts, within certain rules where military generals were labeled barbarians and boors.
Ye Weida remained unmarried for two lifetimes, not due to regrets over having no heirs, but because marriage without benefits would be irresponsible to offspring and his wife.
At sixteen or seventeen, always growing within the military, not even his mother could reach him to bring him back from the army, nor could she arrange a bride without seeing him.
