The Warhorse Returns, Hiding a Red Tassel

Mu Chengxue was a special forces soldier in the modern world. While capturing tomb raiders, she died in an accident. Her blood fell onto a jade pendant in an ancient tomb, and she transmigrated to the Great Yan Dynasty. She became the eldest daughter of a general's household. With her radically modern ideas, she often did things that defied convention. Her advocacy of gender equality and women's liberation even led to her being jilted three times.

Fortunately, Mu Chengxue had a father who adored her. Her father, Murong, created a female army of fifty thousand for her.

For a time, the Mu family's fame soared, and they became the Great Yan Dynasty's most formidable army. When Northern Wei invaded Great Yan, the emperor ordered the Mu family to lead their troops north. But beneath the surface, this northern campaign was rife with intrigue. The Great Yan chancellor had long harbored ambitions of rebellion. He secretly colluded with Northern Wei's forces and schemed to slaughter the Mu army to the last soldier. At the final moment, Mu Chengxue led her female troops in recovering her father and brothers' bodies.

Yet after she endured countless hardships and returned to Great Yan, she was met with an imperial decree: the Mu family's assets were confiscated on charges of treason. Mu Chengxue was stripped of her military authority and reduced to commoner status. After learning that her husband and sons were dead, the general's wife, Lady Gu, was overcome with grief. As she lay dying, she urged Mu Chengxue to live as an ordinary woman, marry into an ordinary family, and raise children, never seeking revenge for her father and brothers.

But the chancellor's household sent assassins to hunt her down everywhere. Gravely wounded, Mu Chengxue was rescued by Lu Yucheng of South Fishing Village.

Taking the alias Cheng Xue, she married Lu Yucheng to fulfill her mother's final wish. When she witnessed the villagers suffering through a locust plague, she turned the situation around on her own.

She asked her mentor to teach Lu Yucheng martial arts, hoping he would make a name for himself. But after he achieved success, Lu Yucheng returned with another woman!