Jianing Chang'an

"Rags-to-riches illegitimate princess + noble-born female general" "No female rivalry + girls help girls"

In the spring of the tenth year of Changde, the emperor was making his customary visit to a temple to worship Buddha when a woman approached him with half a jade pendant and claimed to be his daughter. On the spot, the emperor bestowed the title of Jianning Princess upon her.

Jianning Princess: the illegitimate daughter left behind after the emperor's one-night affair, who could not even read a single character.

She had begged for food in the capital, beneath the Son of Heaven's very nose, for two years before finally reuniting with her imperial father.

Everyone called her crude, ignorant, and greedy for wealth and status.

Liu Linghan, the only daughter of a military family, was the daughter of a Great General of the Cavalry and Chen Yang Commandery Princess, the emperor's cousin.

When she was seven, Liu Linghan watched her father die after being struck by a poisoned arrow.

At twelve, Liu Linghan took up her father's red-tasseled spear and went to war.

At seventeen, Liu Linghan suffered a crushing defeat, and Da Zhao was forced to cede seven cities to Da Zhou.

After recovering from her injuries, Liu Linghan became commander of the Imperial Guard.

Trying to escape an arranged marriage, Jianning, who could not ride a horse, crashed into Liu Linghan as she was pursuing a criminal. By a twist of fate, Liu Linghan ended up inside Jianning's body.

And so the two met and came to know each other.