[Both leads are devoted only to each other + age gap + marriage first, love later + sizzling chemistry + second male lead's desperate pursuit + male lead has harbored an obsessive secret love for years]
Yun Shuwan, the legitimate daughter of a family of master artisans, had been hopelessly in love with the young God of War, Huo Xiao, for three years, and gave him everything she had.
To help him win a decisive victory on the northern frontier, she presented him with her family's closely guarded secret, the Heavenly Crafting Blueprints. She built divine armor for an army of 300,000, working day and night until she developed an eye condition and her fingers were covered in burn scars.
Huo Xiao returned victorious, but publicly petitioned the emperor to marry the Minister of Works' daughter. His reason was that she came from a scholarly family and would make a worthy mistress of the household, while Yun Shuwan, born into a family of artisans, was vulgar and unfit to be his match.
He looked at her with disdain. “If you know what's good for you, there's still a concubine's place for you in my household.”
Only then did Yun Shuwan understand that in his eyes, she and her family had poured their hearts and souls into years of work, only for it to amount to nothing more than vulgar tricks and crafts unfit for public view!
Even her father, brothers, and other relatives urged her, as head of the family, to rely on the Huo family for their sake and swallow her pride.
“For the honor and glory of the entire Yun family, you have to accept this concubine's place, whether you want it or not!”
Fine. Just fine.
Yun Shuwan stopped groveling, reclaimed the blueprints, and set off the hidden mechanisms in the divine armor!
She would break his weapons and ruin his future! He thought he could rely on the Yun family's craftsmanship to win a noble title and high office? Dream on!
Then she turned around, took her family's finest inventions, and knocked on the gates of the Prince of You's mansion, a place everyone else avoided.
Inside was Xiao Wenjing, the former God of War and imperial uncle, whose legs had been crippled while saving the current emperor.
“Your Highness, I'll help you seize the realm. In return, you'll place me above all others. What do you say?”
Later, Huo Xiao knelt in the rain, covered in blood, begging her to look at him one last time.
The imperial uncle who held power over all beneath heaven drew her into his arms and lifted his phoenix eyes. “If you look at him one more time, I'll throw him into the Heavenly Crafting Furnace.”
What kind of work is this? Wanting and wanting at the same time. The heroine saw Huo's face clearly, and then she felt resentful and asked why she didn't love her. As the head of the family, she was being coerced and giving orders at the same time. She was almost torn off her clothes in public, and was forced to wear concubine's clothes. Don't you think it contradicts the introduction?
It's very confusing, the logic is unclear, and it's a mess.
What kind of work is this? Wanting and wanting at the same time. The heroine saw Huo's face clearly, and then she felt resentful and asked why she didn't love her. As the head of the family, she was being coerced and giving orders at the same time. She was almost torn off her clothes in public, and was forced to wear concubine's clothes. Don't you think it contradicts the introduction?
It's very confusing, the logic is unclear, and it's a mess.
The novel is very good