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Shen Yueying is famous in Yangzhou as a woman of prodigious strength. She can lift a bronze vessel with one hand and carry a thousand-jin anchor with both, and she's also a skilled martial artist. She was born with such superhuman strength that even Heaven seems to have gone out of its way to feed her.
Sadly, strength like hers is worthless in this world. All she can do is haul goods and work as a bodyguard.
Shen Yueying thought that was all her life would amount to. Then, taking Auntie Zhou's advice, she rescued a daring Jinyiwei and brought him home.
The man told her mother his name was Yuan Qian, that he was a cloth merchant from the north, and that he'd run into river bandits.
Listening nearby, Shen Yueying silently scoffed: What kind of story is that? Does he really think my mother is a fool?
The black clothes, the regulation boots, and all those knife wounds. Sir, are you a cloth merchant who sells fabric, or someone who deals in lives? Aren't you embarrassed to say that?
Unexpectedly, he said, "Miss Shen, there's a case I'd like to ask you to help with."
Fine. For Auntie Zhou's sake, she'd help, and partner up with this man for the time being.
She never expected that in the end, his eyes would turn to Auntie Zhou too: the mistress of half the street, a famous female salt merchant in the Two Huai regions, and Shen Yueying's benefactor.
"Miss Shen, give us a hand once more." Someone was making a far humbler appeal now.
Shen Yueying took one look. Yuan Bian had long since fallen silent, and the person speaking had an even higher rank.
Theme: Face every hardship and move forward together.
