[One Female Lead - Returns to the Frontier at the End]
A few months ago, her maid Li Qing deliberately threw herself onto a blade and died before her eyes, leaving two final words with her lips: "Do not retreat."
A few months later, Cheng Sangyun returned to the capital in triumph. She had become a general at seventeen, the first female general since the founding of the Great Jing.
The whole capital thought the young lady of the Marquis of Zhennan's household had returned to enjoy the good life.
Only she knew she had returned to settle three debts:
One for her maid's life, one for her mother's life, and one to find out who had sold the Great Jing frontier to the enemy.
She kept her edge hidden. By day, she played the young lady of the marquis's household. By night, she honed her spear.
Noble ladies sneered that she was all name and no substance? She pierced a coin with three arrows, stunning the entire capital.
A hostage prince from an enemy nation set a trap to frame her? She saw through the disguise at a glance and turned the trap into a blade.
Even the Crown Prince, whom she had avoided for seven years, blocked her path: "I don't want to hear it secondhand. I want you to tell me yourself."
Then the enemy nation's army of 120,000 descended upon the border, and a marriage proposal was laid before the imperial throne.
No one at court spoke of a political marriage again, because the emperor declared, "In the two hundred years since the founding of the Great Jing, we have never traded a daughter for peace."
The princess beat a drum atop the city tower, her hands worn to the bone, refusing to retreat;
The eldest legitimate son of the Minister of Personnel sewed, stitch by stitch, deep inside the manor, making an imperial robe of black with the Twelve Emblems;
On the walls of Wuwei Pass, her spear brought down the enemy chieftain and pierced the question she had hidden away for seven years...
Half her life belonged to the frontier, and half to him.
She would settle the frontier's debts one spear thrust at a time;
As for that other half, she would repay it after the war.
She guarded the border. He guarded her. This battle was for the Great Jing, and for the small flame in her heart that refused to die out.
