[Novel Synopsis]
Sang Tian only wants to be a sword-wielding heroine roaming the martial world and help the people of her mountain stronghold grow rich along the way. That is, until she’s sent to the big city for a marriage meeting.
The emperor declares with absolute authority: “This woman is fit to marry only the Star of Literature.”
Then he bundles Pei Lian, the top imperial exam graduate who was just kidnapped by bandits, into her bed.
The entire capital is betting on how long this ill-fated match will last:
“Sang Tian can’t even recite the Three Character Classic!”
“Pei Lian looks like a breeze could knock him over!”
But no one knows that…
At midnight, the “sickly weakling” vaulting over the wall unfolds a bloodstained secret letter. His fingertips rest upon the fate of the thirty-six strongholds of Miaojiang.
The drunken “illiterate” sobs while clinging to a pillar: “Master, please don’t smack my palm! I’ll turn The Art of War into a storybook right now!”
When a deadly poison worm meets a thousand-year-old ginseng spirit,
when a spiked club smashes the conspiracy at the Imperial Banquet,
this couple, who seemed like a pair of rookies, finally realizes:
The life-saving fire at the border three years ago didn’t just burn through their wedding clothes. It also exposed the half tiger tally each had hidden beneath their secret identities…
[Story elements: A literate-challenged female general with unmatched martial prowess × a top exam graduate who plays the pig to eat the tiger, hiding a ruthless nature beneath a gentle facade. A zany guide to court intrigue, drawn with a wolf-hair brush and a spear.]
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