With powerful enemies closing in, she was sent as a bride to the mighty Kuda tribe, the strongest of all, in exchange for warhorses and soldiers.
She heard that the Kuda tribe's leader was over fifty. She didn't want to be his bride, but the people of Jiang needed her.
When the tribe came to escort her, there was a foreign man on horseback, bare-chested, with a wasp waist and powerful arms. She heard he was the tribe's most fearsome warrior, strong enough to kill a tiger with one punch.
She thought that with him protecting her, she would surely reach the tribe safely and secure the warhorses.
But his eyes held an innate disdain for women from the Central Plains.
He was a fierce eagle of the grasslands. When he heard that the old chief intended to trade ten thousand warhorses for a beautiful but useless princess from the Central Plains, his first reaction was anger.
She was so beautiful, and so fragile. She was so delicate that a little unboiled water gave her a stomachache, a fur cloak made her break out in a rash, and a bit of wind made her sick.
He thought he wouldn't even need to lift a finger. She would die on the road back to the tribe all by herself.
“I need a pair of shoes.” After a chaotic incident, the dirty Central Plains princess lost her shoes. She tried her best to hide her snow-white feet beneath her skirt and said through teary eyes.
Heaven knows how he managed to find her a pair of soft silk shoes in the desert.
“Why run? Am I really worse than that old man?” Later, during the ancient wedding ceremony, as the bonfire blazed and the entire tribe celebrated, he dragged her back by force in her wedding dress, cornered her, licked away her tears, and kissed her again and again until she whimpered.
Theme: Respect
