Simply put, it's a female version of the discarded-fiancée reborn-to-rise-to-the-top story.
This is a world where people practice qi techniques, store qi in their dantian, and use it to unleash all kinds of strange moves.
The heroine, Ye Zi'an, was considered a martial arts prodigy from childhood, but an accident destroyed her dantian, leaving her crippled.
But trouble kept coming her way.
Someone came to her doorstep, pointed at her, and called her a good-for-nothing.
The man she loved was stolen from her.
Not only was her once well-matched marriage to a wealthy family called off, but the other party wanted her dead.
So.
She enters the martial arts tournament.
She joins a martial arts academy.
She takes a master, studies hard, and fights her way up. She rises through the ranks, laughing and chatting with powerful family patriarchs, court nobles, and black-market bosses. Hahaha.
And along the way, she finds love again.
There's the peerless swordsman who grew up with her and is now the greatest martial artist under heaven.
There's also her childhood betrothed, an ambitious man who is the Second Prince.
Hehe i...