[Strong heroine + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + the male lead is willing to take on two rivals for love + innocent on the surface, cunning underneath]
Xu Wuyou is the adopted daughter of the Martial Arts Alliance leader and the biological daughter of General Pei of the Xiao Kingdom. After her senior apprentice sister betrays their sect, Xu Wuyou is framed for murder. To escape the martial world’s wanted orders and uncover the truth, she changes her name and infiltrates the imperial capital, where she becomes a low-ranking maid in Prince Jin Song Shian’s household.
Song Shian is a prince who has long been neglected. His father, the emperor, ignores him because of what happened to his mother, and the other princes treat him as an easy target. To protect himself, he has spent years pretending to be incompetent and indifferent to the throne.
When she enters his world, he realizes that he, too, can be loved, and learns what love feels like.
For the first time, he feels the urge to protect someone.
But when he discovers that his paltry power is nowhere near enough to keep her safe and happy, he stops pretending.
He will fight and seize power, rise to the highest position, and place the world in her hands.
When she says she wants to reclaim her position as Martial Arts Alliance leader and refuses to let him come with her, he says, “Then I’ll wait for you to return and become my empress.”
When Qi Jingxiu, the new emperor of Anyuan, offers to marry her and make her empress, while Gu Nanshan, whose power in the martial world is immense, is willing to give everything up and retire with her to the mountains,
Song Shian says, “Since when did I not know you were all coveting my empress?”
Faced with three men’s obsessive declarations of love,
Xu Wuyou says, “Hold on, the Martial Arts Alliance leader hasn’t had her say yet!”
