A Century-Old Clan: The Fragrant Red Ledger

[Dual Male Leads + Equally Matched + Political Intrigue + Ancient Setting + Pure Love + Alternate History]

Five years ago, three generations of the Wei family’s direct line died one after another on the battlefield. At barely twenty, the youngest son, Wei Zhao, was hastily made lord. The court and the country mocked him as “a nobody in a high position.” His clan grew divided, the great families watched hungrily, and the Wei family teetered on the brink of collapse.

Five years later, with the realm divided into thirteen provinces and 103 commanderies, Wei Zhao had used an iron fist to bring order to six provinces and forty-six commanderies. Wherever his cavalry rode, the land came under the Wei family’s control. Amid this gathering storm, the Gu clan’s literary patriarch offered Gu Ran, a Kunze young master from a collateral branch, as a marriage alliance. Beneath the red wedding veil, the seemingly delicate beauty raised his eyes. The sharp glint in them made Wei Zhao’s sword hum.

One is a ruthless leader bent on settling a century-old blood feud; the other, a player who keeps his blade hidden up his sleeve. When schemes and stratagems rip open the festering wounds of the great families, they will have to choose: stand aside and watch this deadlock play out, or join hands and overturn a century-old game? (In this story’s setting, Qianyuan and Kunze have equal status. Neither depends on the other. The higher their compatibility, the greater their talent for scholarship and martial arts.)