Life Is a Blade

Name: Life Is a Blade
Author: Han Qinggui

浮生如刃

by Han Qinggui (寒晴归)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 297k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Strong female lead + revenge + court intrigue + two equally matched leads + devoted couple + growth + ideals]

[An avenging woman general who lay low for seven years ✖️ a gentle crown prince who cares for all the people]

More than a hundred members of the Marquis of Zhenbei’s household were reduced to charred bones overnight, accused of colluding with the enemy and betraying their country.

No one knew that Wen Muqing, the marquis’s youngest daughter, had escaped the sea of corpses and flames. From that day on, the marquis’s daughter ceased to exist. All that remained was Wei Yuehan, who drank blood and fought to survive amid the borderlands’ sandstorms.

For seven years, she rose from the dead, climbing from the ranks of ordinary soldiers to become a vanguard. She buried her blood feud deep within herself, until it became an obsession.

In the twenty-first year of Yongxi, she returned to the capital with military honors and set foot in Chang’an.

The emperor wanted her to be a whetstone, sharpening the crown prince while curbing the chief minister’s power.

The chief minister saw her as a thorn in his side, one he had to remove at all costs.

With her hand on the blade, she set about purging corruption and entrenched abuses in the capital garrison, tracing every clue to the old case and picking her way through the whirlpool of court politics.

Then, through their repeated clashes, the gentle, jade-like crown prince glimpsed the hidden past beneath her armor, while she recognized in him the same clear-sighted ambition to bring peace to the realm.

She entered the game of Chang’an not to win a marquisate or a ministerial post. She came with her blade to settle the blood debts of her household from seven years ago, and to seek a peaceful, prosperous age for soldiers and common people alike.

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