In the third year of Shaozhi, the mighty Liang Empire had no Martial Maidens with transcendent fighting prowess. The new emperor had only recently taken the throne, and the nation was exhausted.
At court, factional strife raged without end. Beyond its walls, centaurs from the north repeatedly raided the border, Japanese pirates ran rampant along the eastern coast, and a zombie horde erupted in the south.
With the empire on the brink of life and death, Dengzhou, a small and seemingly insignificant corner of its territory, timidly announced that they had discovered a Martial Maiden named Zhao Yu. The entire court was overjoyed. But nobody knew that Zhao Yu, the so-called Martial Maiden, was... a man.
