Reborn on the eve of conscription, Su Jingyao tears up her brother’s scheme to evade military service, takes her mother’s military handbook, and heads for the frontier.
After ten years on the battlefield, she earns great renown by combining business acumen with military strategy, and swears a blood oath with a female inspector disguised as a man.
On the day she returns to court as a general, she stands before her father and brothers wearing a black iron mask.
The moment she takes it off...
Her father’s legs give way, and her brother’s life is over.
But she wants more than blood for blood. She wants a world where, from now on, talent alone determines who rises, regardless of gender.
