The Kyoto Tsundere: The Scheming Marquis’s Face-Slapping Sweet Romance

Su Wantang, the legitimate daughter of a general's household, is mistreated by her stepmother, Madam Zhou, and her scheming younger half-sister, Su Lianshuang, after her mother dies young and her father goes off to war. Proud and willful on the surface, she is actually clever and meticulous. Using her expertise in medicine to play the fool and conceal her true abilities, she sees through her stepmother's poison plot and exposes her sister's scheme to steal her wedding. Xie Jingheng, the Marquis of Zhenbei, seems cold and calculating, but he noticed Su Wantang's intelligence long ago. He secretly helps her deal with the imperial concubine's attempts to win her over and frame her. As they face-slap their enemies, the two gradually fall in love. In the end, Su Wantang secures her place as mistress of the general's household, Xie Jingheng pacifies the borderlands, and the couple live a sweet life together into old age.