Border Soldier: My fiancée snatched credit and broke off the engagement, so I promptly became a marq

Crawling from a mountain of corpses back to Black Stone Fortress, Chen Mu expected recognition for his military valor. Instead, he returned to a city adorned with red lanterns and a victory banquet honoring another. Zhao Chenglie, the son of a centurion, stood draped in stolen glory, claiming the merit that rightfully belonged to Chen. To compound the betrayal, Zhao was set to marry Su Wan, the very woman Chen had risked his life to save. Su Wan publicly severed their engagement, dismissing him with contempt. “You are merely a lowly cook, unworthy of me,” she declared, as the surrounding soldiers watched coldly, anticipating his submission. But Chen Mu did not kneel. Instead, he produced the token of the barbarian general and demonstrated his true prowess on the spot. The exposure was immediate: the head presented as proof was a fake, the merit records had been forged, and the Zhao family faced grave suspicion of colluding with the enemy. The woman who had once scorned him fell to her knees in regret, but Chen Mu had already turned away. With renewed enemy attacks surging at the border, he donned his armor, ready to forge his own path.