[Scheming, flirtatious female general x aloof, possessive true power broker]
[Rekindled love x love and hate]
Cheng Yun's career as a general and official had gone smoothly by any measure. Her parents were renowned generals with outstanding achievements, she had studied under an extraordinary recluse, and she later served in the Lizhou Army.
The one thing she could never talk about was her time with the Fu family.
From the first moment she laid eyes on the young master of the Fu family, she couldn't forget him. Fortunately, fate smiled on her and she encountered him when he had fallen on hard times. Cheng Yun served him loyally, doing everything in her power, her devotion clear for all to see.
The young master's name was Qin Chi. He was born with a noble bearing, and his strikingly aloof face could make Cheng Yun give up her life with just one faint smile.
As life gradually improved, Cheng Yun packed her things and set off on the long road to a military career. But the young master vanished without a trace.
Years later, on a desolate plain, Cheng Yun stood before the disciplined Lizhou Army, while a vast merchant caravan stretched out behind the other person.
Cheng Yun smiled and stepped forward. Without hesitation, the other person fired a cold arrow that grazed her neck, leaving a bone-deep chill.
That was when Cheng Yun understood that she would never go soft again. So what if he was handsome? He was an ungrateful bastard.
Nine years later, Cheng Yun found someone in Yandu who looked remarkably like Qin Chi.
Shen Ke, a rising star in Yandu and the newly appointed Minister of Works, was at the height of his fame.
Yet everything about him rubbed her the wrong way. He seemed courteous and gentle, but was actually shameless, devious, and utterly lacking in integrity.
Cheng Yun kept running into him, and every time, things became more complicated. If someone weren't deliberately interfering, she might have suspected that their birth charts were incompatible. Nothing good ever came of their encounters.
With a corrupt chancellor in power and the imperial harem meddling in government, the political situation was treacherous. At the city gate, Cheng Yun was shot through the chest with a repeating crossbow and left on the brink of death. The man should have mocked her without mercy.
Instead, he did the opposite. Kneeling in the dust, he clutched her fiercely to his chest and said in a helpless, pleading voice, "Cheng Yun, you want to leave me behind again."
Updated every day around 6 p.m.
Moral: Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.
