The Bratty Heiress: A Restaurant Counterattack Against the True Dragon Emperor

On the day Bai Yunfei arrived in the capital, the sixteen horses pulling his betrothal gifts drew stares from everyone in the city. Yet the red jade ring bracelet on his wrist bore a blood oath tied to the Ten Thousand Mountains of Yunnan. The emperor issued three secret decrees in one night to have him watched. While porridge was being handed out at the Temple for the Protection of the Nation, a frail young man brushed past and stole the bracelet. Bai Yunfei chased him through three alleys, only to find that the boy had traded it for rice to give to the refugees. The Imperial Noble Consort Wen Meier suddenly wanted to make him her sworn elder brother, stirring up the entire harem. Zhu Yun, who had slipped out of the palace in disguise, had his ribs broken in a restaurant, and the whole city was hunting for the culprit. He had no idea he had already stepped right into the center of the board.

When Liang Junzhuo hurried to the Grand General's residence with the betrothal letter, Situ Jing was crouched under the eaves of a ruined temple, examining the red jade ring bracelet alongside a pawn ticket. She had no idea the bracelet was connected to military authority over the Ten Thousand Mountains, nor that in three days her name would appear on the marriage decree after the words "Empress." When blood from Bai Yunfei's investigation into the massacre splashed against the bracelet's hidden markings, he finally saw the truth: the storm sweeping the city did not end in the Noble Consort's jewelry box or at the archery targets in the General's residence, but in a secret compartment beneath the armrest of the Dragon Throne.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.