I Raise My Sword and Ask What Life Holds

[Scheming BKing, bastard genius fun-loving woman X kind, naive, tearful beauty and quippy spoiled husband]

Han Jingyue grew up adrift in the martial world, living with a notorious old Taoist wandering the jianghu. She picked up a sharp-tongued, mercenary set of terrible habits.

After a twist of fate led her to be adopted by her cousin, General Ming Hong, she decided to act like a normal person.

It didn't take long for her to realize that her steady, dependable cousin was actually a secretly flirtatious man with flexible morals, and his gentle, refined wife was really a wanton, vicious woman. Only Lin Xun, her sensitive, weepy godnephew, was truly an utterly kind and hopelessly clueless fool.

In the end, just as expected, the general's family, whose private lives were a total wreck, finally came crashing down.

She enters the palace martial arts tournament and discovers that her sister-in-law is an old flame of the scheming emperor.

She goes to quell a rebellion in Shengzhou and nearly loses her childhood sweetheart, her spoiled husband, when her true nature comes out.

She attends someone else's wedding, only for her brother and sister-in-law to have a cold war and threaten divorce.

She investigates a case, gets attacked, and nearly dies after falling from a building.

As soon as she recovers, the emperor bundles her off to the northern frontier battlefield...

Han Jingyue: Lin Xun, are you willing to live and die with me?

Lin Xun: ? Can I just not die?

--

Lin Xun was born in the countryside. As a child, his own father sold him to pay off a debt. By a twist of fate, he was adopted by a general's wife. Starved for love and painfully insecure, he followed his adoptive mother's teachings and resolved to become a kind, upright, diligent, hardworking, all-around good person.

Then he realized that he might be the only one in the whole family who had taken those words to heart.

He is poisoned and framed during the palace martial arts tournament.

He is tricked into harming people while quelling a rebellion in Shengzhou.

He is conned into wearing women's clothes while investigating a case.

He is tricked into becoming a hostage on the battlefield...

Lin Xun: (sobbing) Stop picking on honest people!

Han Jingyue: (conscience awakening...)

◆Content Warnings◆

1. The heroine has some character flaws early on, but she will gradually grow and change. Some of the misfortune the hero suffers is caused by her, and some isn't. The plot gets heavier as the story goes on, and some side characters have seriously unconventional morality. At its core, the romance is a bickering-lovers pure romance, but the author's tastes run to weird character types (?). The characters' views do not represent the author's.

2. Both leads are each other's only partners, 1v1, happy ending. The plot and romance get equal attention and are tightly intertwined, with the story closely tied to the perspectives of both leads. The first few chapters use the hero's perspective for narrative convenience; later, the heroine's perspective appears more often.

3. The manuscript is complete, with daily updates. The main characters are Han and Lin, while Song and Fu are important supporting characters. It's a semi-ensemble cast and a slow burn. The leads are about the same height early on; by the end, the heroine is 172 cm and the hero is 181 cm.

-- Upcoming Novel --

The Spring Sun Beneath the Blade

At thirteen, Yu Ting began escorting caravans with her mother. Wielding a demon-slaying blade, she swept through the martial world without ever failing a mission, earning a great reputation.

In the summer she turned sixteen, her hundredth escort mission brought her up against a powerful foe. Her blade broke, the cargo was lost, and her mother died at the enemy's hands.

She barely escaped with her life, but her fame was gone.

At twenty, after years of poor business and fruitless searches for revenge, Yu Ting finally landed a major escort job: take a mysterious wooden case north to the capital for a thousand taels of silver.

Destitute and down on her luck, Yu Ting sharpened her blade and set off north with determination.

She thought this would be a case of finding a way through mountains and rivers, then discovering a village when all seemed lost.

Instead, blizzards and storms raged without end, while bandits and crooked officials kept coming one after another.

Before one escort job was done, another came along. An old friend of her late mother was gravely ill and near death. He entrusted his orphaned son to her, asking her to take Yan Wuxin, a wild young master who had been roaming the martial world, to the capital to seek out his powerful father.

Yu Ting carried someone else's case in her left hand and someone else's son in her right, wore a broken blade at her waist, and stuffed a freshly steamed bun in her mouth. Anyone who stood in her way would die, be they man or god.

--

Before his death, the mother who had raised Yan Wuxin alone used her last ounce of strength to warn him: Stick close to Yu Ting, don't make trouble for her, get to the capital safely, and avenge your mother by killing that faithless father of yours.

Staying alive: easy.

Avenging his mother: easy.

Clinging to Yu Ting's leg: somehow a little difficult.

Yu Ting: Yan Wuxin, go fetch water.

Yu Ting: Yan Wuxin, carry the luggage.

Yu Ting: Yan Wuxin, give me a back rub.

Yu Ting: Yan Wuxin...

Yan Wuxin: Stop! Which one of us is the boss here?

Yu Ting: ? (sharpening her blade)

Yan Wuxin: I understand, boss!

--

Yu Ting really doesn't like Yan Wuxin.

He loves to ramble, quote the classics, and he's a germaphobe, too precious for his own good.

Apart from his face, he's useless.

Yan Wuxin really doesn't like Yu Ting.

She's crude, violent, unreasonable, and illiterate.

Apart from her martial arts, she's useless.

But... Yu Ting discovers that Yan Wuxin secretly cleans her blade and washes her clothes.

But... Yan Wuxin discovers that Yu Ting is secretly writing him love poems.

Hmph. Maybe that person isn't so annoying after all.

--

The martial world's many heroes keep appearing one after another to seize the mysterious case, and danger is everywhere.

But that's all right. I, Yu Ting, have a demon-slaying blade that never loses.

◆Content Warnings◆

1. [Righteous and easygoing but money-loving, overwhelmingly strong yet oblivious woman escort X upright and haughty but sly, sensitive and talented wild young master]

2. Both are each other's only partners, 1v1, happy ending, older woman and younger man, three-year age gap.

3. A road-trip story set in the martial world, very silly and very sweet.

Theme: Opposites are the same.