[Bickering Couple + Love Grows Over Time + Both Have No Past Relationships]
Shen Mingli, the apple of the An'nan Prince's household, is headstrong and free-spirited, with formidable fighting skills.
Lin Heng, a dazzling rising star from a military family on the northern frontier, is exceptionally gifted and has always loved challenging the strong.
When they first meet, he climbs over the wall and interrupts her sword practice. She kicks him flying.
“Where did this lecher come from?” She points her sword at his throat, glaring furiously.
Lying in a sandpit, the young man grins. “The young prince has quite a kick! How about another round?”
From then on, he becomes the “clingy nuisance” she can't shake off.
He snatches the Western Regions dagger she just acquired, so she turns around and burns the military strategy manuscript he treasures.
He says her musical skills are “so stunning they could move heaven and make ghosts weep,” and she mocks his poetry as “worse than a dog's scratches.”
The bickering pair trade barbs, making every day a chaotic mess.
Until a stray arrow tears through the hunting grounds...
He catches it in his bare hand, and blood stains her skirt.
“Why are you crying?” He wipes away her tears. “You kicked me harder than this.”
Unspoken feelings quietly take root before either of them can put them into words.
Who knows how much time passes before, at a palace banquet, an imperial decree suddenly arrives:
“Lin Heng, valiant son of a military family, and Shen Mingli, jewel of the Prince's household, shall be married at once!”
The whole hall erupts! She glares at him across the crowd. “Did you arrange this?”
He swirls his wine, raising an eyebrow with a brazen grin. “Didn't you say that whoever lost had to accept their fate and marry the other?”
A joke made at the training grounds that day has somehow ended up inscribed on their marriage contract!
The headstrong prince's daughter vs. the battle-loving son of a military family
A hilarious romance that begins with a kick. Watch them go from always crossing paths as rivals to a love that never fades!
