The Hero and Heroine of the Story Turned Against Each Other over Me

[Eastern mechanisms / fantasy / alternate world / ancient technology] After her food box is rejected, Jiang Qitang comes across a future storybook titled The Female General Who Illuminated the Land. In the book, Pei Zhaoye, a martial arts prodigy from a poor family, is actually a peerless female general disguised as a man. In the future, she will defeat Lu Huaijin to become the top student at the Martial Academy, and the two will become lovers locked in a love-hate relationship. Jiang Qitang, meanwhile, is merely a noblewoman who was verbally matched with Lu Huaijin by their families’ elders, only to be cast aside by him in the end. Jiang Qitang immediately helps the “future female general” improve her health and protect her reputation, treating him as her closest sister. At the same time, Jiang Qitang takes up again the dream of designing mechanisms that she was forced to abandon in childhood, entering the Heavenly Crafts Competition under the name “Star Chaser.” Pei Zhaoye also approaches her in two other identities: the masked hero “Yan Qi” and the Spirit Mirror reader “Nameless Guest.” Jiang Qitang sees Pei Zhaoye as a sister, Yan Qi as the man she loves, and Nameless Guest as her kindred spirit, completely unaware that all three are the same man. She enters the Upper Capital Martial Academy, which previously admitted only men; saves nearly a thousand students during the Taixu First Seat Trials; promotes new laws granting women access to education, property rights, divorce, and the right to establish independent households; and creates a mechanized battle suit that shakes the world at the Five Kingdoms’ Heavenly Crafts Martial Assembly. At last, she discovers that the person who truly illuminates the age in the storybook was never the fictional future general. It was herself, daring to step beyond the inner chambers and change her own destiny with her own hands.