The Debauched General's Courtiers Fill the Imperial Court

[Woman Disguised as a Man + Military Intrigue + Angsty Romance with Multiple Male Leads + Family and Country]

The one thing she should never have done in her life was let Situ Yumo get a second look at her on the streets of the capital.

That one glance saw through the hole behind her ear and uncovered the secret she had kept for three years. But he didn't expose her. He swung down from his horse, lashed his whip to chase away the rats at her feet, and said with a smile, "Interesting."

Back then, she was called Baili Xuance. The daughter of Baili Yingxiong, a Northern Frontier commander, she had come to the capital alone after her whole family was falsely accused. By day, she was an inconspicuous junior officer in the garrison; by night, she investigated cases, climbed walls, and sharpened her blades. Then an urgent report reached the court: the Northern Frontier's three passes had fallen. She offered a strategy before the court and volunteered to head to the border. With five hundred soldiers, she held a lonely city and burned thirty thousand enemy troops in a single night. The name "Baili Xuance" shook the entire frontier.

Sharing a tent, Situ Yumo kept watch for her, took blows meant for her, and secretly brought her medicine. He never said he loved her. He only left ointment by her tent whenever an old injury flared up. She never asked, either. Separated by half a foot of darkness, they each sharpened a blade through the night, each with their own thoughts.

Then Qin Munian set a trap and demanded that he hand over his military seal. Its mark was branded onto his left arm. Just before she broke through the door, he cut off his own arm with his own hand. Blood covered the ground. He looked up and smiled. "The seal is safe. Don't cry."

Later, he entered court with one arm and rose to power over the realm. The officials feared him. Only she would stop everything she was doing when he clutched his empty sleeve and said, "My old wound hurts."

This is the bloody road that took her from a spoiled young noble in the capital to a guardian god of war. It is also the story of how he wagered his whole life to help her turn the darkest page in the history of the Great Sheng. Wherever her blade points, justice will not die. Her admirers fill the court and the countryside.