Clouds Rise Over the Vast Sky

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"If There Comes a Time"

Princess Changle has a fine family background, a beautiful appearance, great talent, and a gentle, virtuous nature. She's the model of a noblewoman in the capital. What girl wouldn't envy her?

But even as they envy her, they can't help feeling glad on her behalf. After all, she has a fiancé who's a brute, and she can't even break off the engagement.

All the dashing young noblemen lament that such a lovely flower is about to be planted in a pile of manure!

On the day the young general returns to the capital by imperial decree, the maid serving the princess blinks curiously and asks, "All the young ladies are going to see the young general. Aren't you going, Princess?"

The princess is engrossed in her book. She pauses and asks, "Why would I go see him?"

"You haven't met the young general yet, have you? Aren't you worried he'll be broad as a bear and covered in whiskers?"

The princess frowns. "If he's ugly, can I return him?"

The maid silently shuts her mouth.

The princess lowers her head and goes back to reading.

A new dynasty has just been established, and power is changing hands.

There is a group of young people who once stood apart from the struggle for power, roaming the martial world, carefree and chivalrous. Yet they don't realize that a web has already been spun around them.

Beyond the borders, powerful enemies circle, and border conflicts break out one after another.

On the battlefield, He Yunluo says, "I don't like fighting, but I like seeing our land shattered and our people displaced even less. Besides..." She lowers her eyes, smiling with pursed lips as if remembering something. "He's here."

She turns to look at the command tent. "He's no good at martial arts, so I have to keep him safe."

You protect the people and this land.

I will protect you.

P.S. (May contain spoilers, read at your own discretion): First, if you're worried about backing the wrong male lead, see the one-line synopsis. Second, the heroine has two identities: He Lan, the ninth disciple of the hermit of Wuwei Mountain, courtesy name Yunqi, and He Yunluo, the only daughter of the He family, the wealthiest family in Jiangnan.

Theme: Treat others sincerely, keep your promises, and work together through hardship and danger. Then nothing can defeat you.