On their wedding night, the groom was absent. Shen Yuan ordered three hundred lanterns lit throughout the prince's residence. "If he doesn't come tonight, tomorrow he'll have to ride ten li out of the city to welcome me."
The orphaned daughter of a military family married into the Prince Regent's household, and everyone laughed at her for marrying above her station. Yet within this sham marriage, she carefully made her moves, investigating military funds, taking on the Xie family, and heading to the frontier to uncover, piece by piece, the truth about her father and brothers' deaths in battle.
On the day the truth came to light, she left behind a divorce agreement, turned around, and took command of the army. Three arrows subdued the Northern Di, and she returned victorious to be ennobled as Great General Who Pacifies the North.
Xiao Chengji finally panicked.
