An original, native-born female protagonist, not a transmigrator. The Liang-Zhu story takes up very little space.
The first 85 chapters take place at an academy; chapters 85-152 follow her as an official at court; after chapter 153... the Former Qin, Later Qin, Northern Wei, and so on.
Pairings: Yu Siyuan (Wang Yuanzhi, Xie Feng), Ma Wencai
Supporting characters: Yu Wangquan, Xie Daoyun, Prefect Ma, Xie An, Sima Yao, Fu Jian, Liang Zhu
There is a kind of socially anxious person who masks their fear of facing "strangers" with domineering, unreasonable behavior, then lumps all those "strangers" together as their "servants," or perhaps their "followers" or "underlings." In their minds, those people have become their servants.
Ma Wencai is one such socially anxious person.
For the first fifteen years of his life, he treated everyone that way.
Until he met Wang Yuanzhi.
A Yuan would take the blows from his father's stick for him;
A Yuan would gently hold him when he was hurt;
A Yuan would defy their teacher for his sake;
A Yuan even had exactly the same background as him;
A Yuan said, "Wenwen, you should be broad-minded."
A Yuan said, "Wenwen, you should make more friends..."
He thought that with A Yuan, his life had finally found meaning, until one day he discovered:
It had all been a lie!
Yu Siyuan, you deceived me so cruelly! You found a new patron, used me, then tossed me aside!
Don't think you'll be safe just because you've thrown in your lot with the Xie family. You and I will settle this, even if it takes until death!
