Reclaiming Our Homeland: The Great General Grooming Plan

[Reborn + Revenge + Nurturing + Empress]

As Su Ran closed her eyes in a pool of blood, one final thought crossed her mind: If I have another life, I will never let my brother bring this beautiful land to ruin.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on a snowy night in the seventeenth year of Jinghe. Her father was announcing in the great hall that Su Wang would be named Crown Prince, and she knew this was the beginning of the Xia Kingdom’s downfall.

In this life, she would no longer be a delicate flower in the palace, waiting for others to manipulate her.

That very night, she ordered her subordinates to search the city. At last, they found a battered young boy in the slave market: Qin Shuochuan, the strategist who had supported her and the Shen family from behind the scenes in her previous life. Now, he was only a frail child who could barely get enough to eat.

“Come with me.” She took off her fox-fur cloak and wrapped it around his trembling body. “I’ll take you away from here, and in return, you’ll give me… a peaceful and prosperous age.”

The world saw only a beautiful young man kept by the Princess Royal, never realizing that she was forging her sharpest sword. She taught him the art of war and strategy, while he won over the frontier troops for her. She hid her strength and played the fool deep in the palace, while he cut a path through the battlefield.

When the northern barbarians’ cavalry broke through the border defenses, everyone wanted to sue for peace. Only Qin Shuochuan dared to draw his sword.

When Su Wang was cornered and sought to destroy everything, Qin Shuochuan returned to the capital with three hundred thousand frontier troops. But before the steps to the throne, he laid down his armor and knelt. “For the sake of the realm, I ask the Princess Royal to take the throne.”

Su Ran gazed at his bloodstained robes and finally accepted the imperial jade seal. In this life, she would change who ruled the realm, and the man she had once kept under her wing would become the royal consort who shared the land with her.