[A betrayed battle-hardened general × A concubine-born daughter who refuses to accept her fate]
I will make myself a queen.
I will make the world my domain.
Chu Huaixiang never expected that, after climbing over the capital’s wall to escape an arranged marriage, she would stumble straight into a bandit stronghold in Wolong Mountain.
One moment, she was worrying about how to escape her engagement. The next, she had to figure out how to stay alive with a knife at her throat.
But the bandit chief didn’t look at her like he wanted to kill her. It was more as if he were weighing a sword that had yet to be forged.
The villagers bet that the official’s daughter they’d kidnapped wouldn’t last three days. But who could have guessed that, months later
“Miss Chu! We’ve sold out!”
“Miss Chu, could you help us come up with a solution?”
“Miss Chu, something’s wrong! The chief is fighting someone again!”
“Miss Chu, ”
Chu Huaixiang had thought this life wasn’t so bad. She could bury the capital’s treacherous schemes deep in her heart.
But she never imagined that one day, the man would take her hand and say, each word etched like a brand:
“Chu Huaixiang, here in this stronghold, do whatever you want. If you want the world, I’ll be the sword at your side.”
Only then did she finally raise her eyes, looking past his shoulder toward the towering outline of the imperial city. She murmured:
“The court and the world have betrayed you and me.”
“Then let’s make them all take the surname Chu.”
From a concubine-born daughter fleeing an arranged marriage to wagering everything on the world.
She and he would fight their way down this road side by side.
