On Shen Youning's eighteenth birthday, what awaited her was not a wedding date, but a letter of divorce. The newly appointed top scholar, Gu Yanzhi, personally wrote the words “our love is over,” crushing three years of her hopes to dust. More absurd still, the ink on the imperial decree annulling their engagement had barely dried when another decree arrived, arranging her marriage to General Lu Xiao, the Northern Frontier's commander-in-chief, a man she'd never met.
From the misty rains of Jiangnan to the windswept sands of the northern frontier, from a refined young lady of a scholarly family to a general's wife, Shen Youning had no time even to grieve before she was sent north in a carriage. A rough, taciturn general, a bitterly cold and desolate border town, officials who skimmed the army's provisions, and the menacing Beidi. Everyone was waiting to laugh at this “discarded woman from the capital.”
But they forgot that the one who'd been abandoned wasn't a weakling. She was a wolf who simply hadn't bared her fangs yet. When Empress Dowager Xiao's blade was at the northern frontier's throat, and the lives of 150,000 soldiers hung in the balance, the woman fate had thrown into a desperate situation decided to become her own strongest ally.
