Mountains and Rivers as My Betrothal Gift

“A woman needs no learning to be virtuous?” Liu Minglan is determined to tear down that rotten old doctrine! A poor girl from Bailin Town in Yining Prefecture, she was told from childhood by her father that there was no point in educating a girl. But she disguises herself as a man and enters the world of commerce, digging up a bright future with nothing but a medicinal hoe. When the fragrance of golden-threaded polygonatum drifts through the Northern Frontier army camp, the young general who saw through her disguise at a glance invites her to play a game of strategy with the realm as the board. Xiao Yunjing has two things he is proudest of in his life: First, he has never lost a battle in five years of military service. Second, he recognized her at a glance in the marketplace. “Miss Liu, your medicine can heal wounds and illness.” His bloodstained fingers brush the soot from her cheek. “Why not see if you can heal my heart, too?” From the herb garden on White Stone Mountain to the dragon throne in Zichen Hall, standing between them are: A Valley of the Medicine King heir who has returned from the dead, A carefully plotted heart-devouring parasite scheme, And The man's clothes she refuses to take off, And the marriage proposal he dares not speak aloud. “Do you want the realm, or do you want me?” A bloodstained tiger tally is pushed before him. The young general smiles and takes her hand: “I offer you the realm as a bride price. Marry me.”