[Strong Leads, Mutual Devotion, Powerful Female Lead, Feel-Good Revenge, One-on-One Romance]
Shen Jinghong is the leader of Blackwind Stronghold, the most notorious bandit stronghold in the land. Her fearsome reputation spans the entire Hengduan Mountains.
With her fifteenth birthday fast approaching, everyone at Blackwind Stronghold is tearing their hair out trying to find her a husband.
So they decide to act first and ask questions later, kidnapping a man from the foot of the mountain to marry her.
But the kidnapping uncovers a shocking secret: Shen Jinghong is the only heir to the Great Yong imperial family.
This is huge! Blackwind Stronghold is about to produce an empress!
After returning to the palace, Shen Jinghong gets into fights and causes such chaos that the whole capital is turned upside down.
To make sure she can inherit the throne smoothly, the emperor specifically sends her to Lumu Academy to study.
That would have been fine, except she discovers that her instructor is her sworn enemy, and the man she was betrothed to as a child.
The two become bitter enemies!
Shen Jinghong is just as unruly at the academy. She forms cliques, leads a gang of rich young dandies on brothel visits, and punishes bullies, leaving the entire capital in a state of panic.
The emperor has no choice but to appoint her to an official post and teach her how to handle government affairs.
Now she has really stirred up a hornet's nest!
“Minister Feng, your brother-in-law is selling contraband salt.”
“Grand Marshal Lu, you're trafficking drugs and smuggling children.”
“Minister Hu, you've gone too far. How dare you collude with foreign enemies and invade our country?”
The entire imperial court becomes Shen Jinghong's battlefield.
Just then, the frontier sends an urgent warning: the barbarians have joined forces with neighboring kingdoms and launched an invasion!
Defying the emperor's objections, Shen Jinghong sets out for the frontier with her former sworn enemy and the brothers of Blackwind Stronghold. They vow to defend Great Yong's territory to the death!
Witness how a bandit queen rises to power and becomes the first empress to be remembered through the ages!
This isn't a pure wish-fulfillment story. It has blood, tears, and love. The heroine is clever and compassionate, with the people of the world always in her heart.
