The Rumormongers

The world these days is enough to make anyone laugh their head off.

The long-awaited new warlord of the three northeastern provinces had barely arrived before heading straight to the famous Tingyan House at Chunxin Street, stirring up plenty of rumors.

Most astonishing of all, after just two months, the new warlord declared that he intended to marry a lowly opera singer from Tingyan House.

Before long, notices and news reports were flying all over the city.

Yet Jiang Mianyi showed no hint of joy. If she didn’t want to marry him, given her temperament, she would surely be eager to escape this filthy place, where she had no control over her own life and all kinds of people mingled.

But if she did want to marry him, the man before her had once been her nemesis.

What’s more, his offer to marry her might not be sincere.

“How much of your wanting to marry me is real, and how much is a lie?”

“My desire to marry you is completely real. Everything else is a lie.”

Jiang Mianyi had never expected love from anyone, least of all the cheap, fleeting affection of a man.

And yet she agreed to marry him, the man she had once fallen for.

But it seemed that everything was conspiring to tear them apart. It turned out that not everything in this world could go as hoped, and even a passionate, burning love could be betrayed.

The struggle for military power brought bloodshed and chaos. War in the three northeastern provinces was inevitable...

And it seemed that all of this was drawing Jiang Mianyi into a maelstrom...

[The powerful warlord Mu Jinke & the famous opera singer Jiang Mianyi]

The gulf between their identities, the gap in their status, open and covert struggles, killing and tenderness. What matters most, and what is best?