The General’s Legitimate Daughter: A Beauty’s Scheme

In the early spring of the seventeenth year of Emperor Wuzhao’s reign, the entire Zhan family fell in battle. Traitors spread the lie that the Zhan family had lost five cities because they colluded with the enemy, and had been executed. At the same time, Empress Zhan was falsely accused of poisoning the Consort’s son. Emperor Wuzhao stripped her of her title and threw her into the imperial prison. He then led an expedition to Yong City himself. A hundred thousand soldiers of Southern Jin faced three hundred thousand warriors of Northern Yan. Corpses covered the land, drawing crows to perch on every barren tree. In the depths of winter, in the seventeenth year of Wuzhao’s reign, the Emperor suffered a crushing defeat and was trapped in Yong City. A small group escorted him out, but just when he had nowhere left to retreat, the deposed Empress appeared. Riding a warhorse with her red-tasseled spear, she came drenched in blood and died protecting him. With no way out, he embraced the deposed Empress and plunged with her into a deep ravine. Unexpectedly, when he opened his eyes again, he found himself slumped over a desk in a classroom at the Imperial College. He had been reborn. He had once set his heart on a fair lady, but unfortunately, her melon vine wasn’t growing in his direction. If it wouldn’t grow toward him, then he would simply move the whole vine to his own residence!