The Legendary Lady Demands to Be Let Go, and the Refined Officer Goes Mad

[Alternate-history Republican-era setting] [Gentle, brilliant girl who is cold to the core × refined, lovesick young marshal who gradually loses his mind] [Nonlinear storytelling + what you think is settled may not be the ending]

Drunk on a riverboat, he drifts away with the current. Wherever we go in this world, we can gather the stars.

In an era adrift in chaos, Tong Xiyi and her brother depended on each other. Through a twist of fate, she took a man’s hand and helped him escape, never realizing she had taken hold of a bond that would entwine their lives forever. She went from a mild-mannered neutral to an active revolutionary, but her duty to protect the country always came first.

Night grows late, and dawn is near!

[The poems and couplets in this book are original and took great effort to write. Thank you for your support. Please do not use them commercially.]

[I hope this novel will be worth rereading once it’s complete.]

[Before you read, ask yourself: Would you believe an eight-year-old child?]