Chief! The Scholar You Took as a Husband Is Sweet on the Outside and Ruthless Within Again!

[Strong female lead + equally matched leads + martial-world power struggles + everyone protects their leader + empress]

Sha Yu, the ruthless bandit chief of Wusha Stronghold, kills anyone who crosses her.

Everyone avoids her like she’s a monster.

But no one knows that the source of her misfortune was a royal conspiracy all along.

Until one day, Sha Yu took a handsome man on a whim and seized him as her husband.

That man was none other than Lu Xizhou, the top scholar blessed with uncanny luck.

She thought she was the one who had taken him.

Only later did she learn he had waited ten years for this day.

*

The court is once again caught in a storm.

The offer of amnesty is a sham. They mean to wipe out every last one of them.

But this time, behind the woman once branded a “demoness”

stands a crowd of people:

The women of the stronghold draw their swords;

a master strategist risks his life to protect her;

a cool, aloof monk breaks his vows and enters the mortal world;

a loyal general turns against his side for love;

while the top scholar simply holds her close.

His voice is gentle, yet dangerous:

“Ah Yu, you can only love me alone.”

*

From a bandit stronghold deep in the mountains to the tumultuous imperial court, she breaks free of her fate.

Clad in red, she tramples across the realm and ultimately ascends the throne.