The story takes place over a decade or so around the An Lushan Rebellion.
County magistrate Wei Zhuoqing has a beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter named Ziyun. Unfortunately, Yang the Tyrant sets his sights on her and wants to take her as a concubine.
Ziyun has practiced boxing and martial arts under her uncle since childhood, and refuses to become the old tyrant's plaything.
Yang the Tyrant is a relative of Yang Guozhong, and the Wei family is no match for the Yang family.
With no one else to save her, Ziyun enters the palace as a maid to escape Yang the Tyrant's clutches.
In the palace, she is stuck with filthy, exhausting chores like scrubbing manure buckets, and she can hardly bear it.
To keep the soldiers on the frontier warm, Emperor Tang Ming orders the women of the imperial harem to sew padded military coats.
Ziyun makes an extra-large coat and sews a poem she wrote into its collar. In essence, it says: With affection, she added extra cotton and thread to the coat. Whoever receives it must be someone fate has brought her. But they are destined to miss each other in this life, so let them form a bond again in a reborn life.
Guo Ziyi, the great general guarding the frontier, finds the poem and presents it to the emperor.
After reading it, Emperor Xuanzong is moved to grant them an extraordinary romance in this very life.
Not long after Ziyun marries and moves to the frontier, the An Lushan Rebellion breaks out. Guo Ziyi leads the frontier army to put down the rebellion, leaving the border undefended. Ziyun organizes the families who remain there into an army of women.
They invent a giant crossbow with a range of 400 paces, able to destroy enemies beyond the reach of ordinary bows. Using unconventional tactics and methods, they repeatedly repel incursions by the Turks, Tibetans, Uyghurs, and other foreign powers, securing a stretch of the Tang frontier.
She outwits wicked palace maids, defeats a coalition of several nations, solves a series of murders, subdues bands of ruthless bandits, and captures corrupt officials and tyrants. Deeply favored by three emperors, she is granted the title of First-Rank Cavalry General, and awarded the palace of a deposed crown prince from a previous dynasty.
She is truly the beauty of the Tang Empire's age of turmoil.
Read this book carefully,
This should be a good book!
A good start, looking forward to it.
Really pretty
The plot is vivid, bizarre and exciting!
The dragon's head and the snake's tail have no results...
This is a good book. Have watched it several times. Can't put it down.
Good looking and interesting