[Political intrigue + strong female lead + light wuxia + male lead]
Nan Wanying × Gong Wuyi
“Your mother’s body isn’t even cold, and you dare touch her dowry?”
Chen Wanying gripped her teacup, her knuckles turning white.
At thirteen, she faced the greed on her aunt Chen Yu’s face, only to have the last of her warmth crushed by her father Chen Gu’s callousness in the ancestral hall.
“The Ministry of Rites is full of Chen family lackeys?”
Four years later, she unfolded a secret letter with a cold laugh. “Then I’ll take the military exams!”
The carriage came to an abrupt stop. Thugs had a red-robed young master pinned to the ground. She swept aside the curtain and flung out her sword:
“I’m taking him with me. The new empress’s decree is here. Who dares make trouble?”
A sword-wielding beauty in a turbulent age will challenge the realm itself. In a man’s world of ruthless pursuit, she will carve out a path to the top for women.
