Shen Zhiwei never imagined that a trip to the museum would end with her being swallowed by a battered bronze mirror and dropped into the chaos at the end of the Sui dynasty.
She opened her eyes to mountains of corpses and flames of war raging across the land.
An ordinary office worker from the modern era who had never even killed a chicken, she now had to survive in a world where people ate one another. Fortunately, she found someone...
Cheng Yaojin, the notorious demon king of Wagang Stronghold: a huge, burly man with a mouth full of crude language, whose three-bladed axe had carved a path across both banks of the Yellow River. The first time they met, he pulled her from beneath the blades of a band of rogue soldiers and said gruffly, "Come with me. I'll protect ya."
She thought he was just a rough brute.
Until she was kidnapped and held hostage, and he stormed the enemy camp alone, then carried her out, drenched in blood. In a hoarse voice, he said, "Whoever dares touch my woman, I'll chop his whole family to pieces."
She thought he was just loyal to his friends.
Until she came down with a fever in the middle of the night and babbled deliriously. He crouched beside her bed and kept watch for three days and nights, his beard scruffy and eyes bloodshot, holding her hand as if it were some priceless treasure. "Little lady, you can't die. What would I do if you did?"
She thought he was just a man of few words with a warm heart.
Until the realm descended into chaos and heroes vied for supremacy. With her knowledge of the future, she rose from a helpless young woman to a strategist who could command the battlefield. And he always stood behind her, taking blades for her, killing for her, and winning her an empire.
"Zhiwei." It was the first time he'd called her by name, without "little lady" or "I." His voice was so deep it seemed to rise from his chest. "I don't understand all those twists and turns. All I know is, I don't care who sits on the throne. But if anyone dares hurt even one hair on your head, I, Cheng Yaojin, will fight him to the death."
