The Sweet and Naive Young Lady: A Master of the Art of War

[On a stormy night, the red-clad woman in an ancient painting suddenly opened her eyes!]

She was a modern professor of military history, but while cataloguing ancient texts, a bolt of lightning struck her and sent her into a painting...

The Great Xia Dynasty, the General’s Manor.

Su Qingrou, a pampered young lady of noble birth, was being scolded by the Old Madam, who was tugging her ear and calling her “so stupid she can’t even do the accounts.” But who would have guessed that behind those tearful almond eyes lay the millennia-old strategies of The Art of War and the General Treatise on Military Affairs, while her tongue held the hard-won wisdom of battlefields yet to come?

The “golden finger” of mastering the art of war surged through her mind, while the gift of foreseeing three days into the future let her see through everything...

Poisoned wine from the Chancellor’s residence was seeping into her teacup. The hoofbeats of 200,000 enemy troops in the north were already thundering against the border, and even her “brave” fiancé, praised by everyone, was secretly sending coded letters to the enemy camp!

And so, a “much stupider” Miss Su suddenly appeared in the capital:

She shook a rattle drum with a cheerful clatter, chasing butterflies down the Imperial Avenue;

But anyone who dared touch her grain shops would be targeting the intelligence network she had spent three years building;

Anyone who dared seize her embroidery shop would be laying hands on the needlework room where she had hidden half a city’s worth of death warriors;

As the court officials laughed that she was “too stupid to be saved,” she wandered into the imperial study, rattle drum in hand. What she spread out was a map of the northern frontier marked in rouge. “Your Majesty, at the hour of the rabbit three days from now, the enemy will launch a surprise attack from Blackwind Gorge.”

The fierce general sneered. “What would a girl know about the art of war