The Chang’an Upheaval: Enemies Across the Land

In the flickering candlelight of Daming Palace, Princess Jingle gripped her gold-inlaid knife and slashed her wedding dress, only for her personal maid, Xiaocui, to knock her unconscious with a single palm strike at the vanity. The bronze mirror reflected the young woman's resolute smile. "I'll go meet that 'Khan of the Asura' in your place."

Atop the walls of Chang'an, Sword Sage Pei Min gazed at the crimson stars in the northern sky as his Azure Dragon Sword let out its first mournful cry. The unruly princess who often practiced swordsmanship with him in the Pear Garden was now wielding a massive Kunwu blade, fighting amid the Khitan cavalry.

Broken marriage papers swept up in the yellow sands stretching for thousands of miles. The Sword Sage and the Poet Immortal stood side by side, setting great events in motion...

(I have often lamented the tragic fate of Princess Jingle, a Tang princess sent away in a political marriage, and so I wrote this book.)