A novel set in the martial world of the Ming Dynasty, blending mystery, wuxia, comedy, and romance. Packed with thrilling twists, it will have you laughing at its nonstop humor and moved by its tender, heartfelt moments.
“Knives hidden in candy, chestnuts enough to fill you up.”
“Is the martial world dangerous? No, the medicine my wife brews is even more poisonous!”
“The sweetest sugar-roasted chestnuts, the craziest couple in the martial world, and the most explosive Reverse Scale Swordplay!”
During the Zhengtong era of the Ming Dynasty, Du Jingcheng, a roasted-snack vendor in Chengdu Prefecture, wants nothing more than to sell his sugar-roasted chestnuts in peace. That is, until one day he accidentally sells a pot of gunpowder-laced chestnuts to an assassin, blowing up half a street and saving Ye Shutong, a female disciple of the Hu Xuan Sect who is being hunted.
She is unrivaled in medicine and even deadlier with poison. Disguised as a man, she has entered the martial world to investigate the bloody tragedy that befell her sect.
He is a man of mysterious origins who uses an iron wok as a shield and wields a flexible sword that can put any challenger in their place.
Forced to travel together, one tries to run while the other keeps setting traps. But little by little, they discover that...
The move he uses to casually deflect a blade is actually the long-lost Yunxuan Swordplay, missing for twenty years.
The deadly poison inside her, “Silkbound Green,” is tied to the massacre that wiped out the Minshan Sword Sect.
And the mastermind, the Blood Lotus Alliance, is sacrificing the living to forge the divine weapon “Blackscale Cleaver”...
Storms rage across the martial world, while the court seethes with hidden currents.
At a teahouse, she poisons a gambler to force a confession, while he discreetly fits the antidote into the tabletop.
At a brothel, she pricks a famous courtesan with acupuncture needles, while he uses his flexible sword like a zither string to drive off their enemies.
In Miao territory, she cuts flesh to use as a medicinal ingredient, while he battles venomous serpents and slashes through blood vines.
At the imperial mausoleum, she blows up an army of puppets, while his words, “My wife is fiercer,” cow everyone present.
In the end, when their sworn enemy reveals their identity, and the antidote demands that they renounce love...
