A Northern Qi Girl's Modern Guide to Spotting Men

A transmigrated girl’s guide to judging men: Once you’ve seen Gao Huan’s breathtaking beauty, you know what true elegance is. Once you’ve seen betrayal beneath a flash of blades, you know exactly how much sweet talk is worth.

Sixteen-year-old Xiao Qing is the daughter of Xiao Gui, a Northern Qi commander. After watching her father be beheaded in the Battle of Mufu Mountain, she throws herself into the Yangtze River, only to transmigrate to modern-day Nanjing, fifteen hundred years later.

Four years later, she enrolls in Nanjing University’s Chinese department. Drawing on the calligraphy, medicine, and martial arts passed down in her Northern Qi family, she makes a name for herself in the calligraphy world, her Wei stele script embodying the spirit of the Six Dynasties. But what she excels at most is seeing through people beneath their glittering exteriors. When her older sister Zhang Manman falls into a tender trap, and a group of spoiled young men place bets and treat her as their prey, Xiao Qing remains calm and unhurried. She has seen all the power plays and captivating beauties of the Northern Qi court, so modern people’s tricks are nothing but amateurs showing off to a master.