The Playboy Is Actually a Master

He is the eldest son of the great general who protects the nation, yet after his mother’s death, he falls out of favor and becomes the laughingstock of all Chang’an. By day, Murong Xuan plays the spoiled wastrel, frequenting taverns and brothels. No one knows that every night he secretly trains in the peerless martial arts his mother left behind in a deserted garden. When the princess tears up their engagement in public, he smiles and drains his cup. At the martial arts tournament where suitors compete for her hand, he pretends to lose. But when experts from the barbarian kingdom crush Jun’s finest talents and brazenly insult the nation, the emperor offers the post of “General Who Pacifies the Nation” as a reward. Murong Xuan calmly raises his hand and defeats the invaders in three moves. The princess breaks off the engagement? He astonishes everyone with his poetry. The top scholar gets in his way? He turns the tide on the battlefield. Ten years hiding his edge, then one day he draws his blade. From good-for-nothing wastrel to Marquis of the Northern Border, his path is paved with blood and lies. In this false age of prosperity, he will fight his way to a real world for his dead mother and all those who died unjustly.