[Alternate history + happy ending + satisfying payoff + revenge + court politics] Ji Yao is the daughter of the reigning dynasty's great general. After her father is falsely accused by traitors, the court refuses to send reinforcements. The city falls, and he dies defending it. She becomes a refugee and nearly gets sold as human meat by rioters.
After countless hardships, Ji Yao finally finds her father's former subordinates, recruits troops, and takes to the hills as a bandit. Before long, she becomes a power to be reckoned with.
It's just that the child she picked up along the way has a rather strange identity...
“Dong'er, you have to go to the capital...” Ji Yao urges him.
“A Yao, while I'm gone, you absolutely mustn't marry my great-uncle! I'll find you the very best!”
“Get lost! Who wants to be your grandmother...”
From being offered amnesty to entering the court and weathering a coup, the one thing Ji Yao never changes is her resolve to reclaim the place her father once defended and protect the people who live there...
