Outlaws

Blurb One Cheng Tianba, the second-in-command of Duanya Mountain, comes down the mountain to kidnap a bride and bring good fortune to the gravely ill leader. He gets the bridal sedan, but the beautiful bride inside turns out to be a man. Before they even make it back to the mountain, the leader dies. He intends to send the "bride" back, but suddenly finds he can't bear to let him go. Blurb Two Wen Xiya is the young master of a fallen minor noble family. By his father's generation, the family had fallen so far that there was no suitable family left for a marriage alliance, so his father married a farmer's daughter. Wen Xiya's mother died in childbirth, and ever since his stepmother entered the family, she has treated him like a thorn in her side. The prefect of Xiangyang has an only son who is a fool. One day, the prefect receives a divine instruction from a Daoist: his son will recover if he marries someone born in a yin year, yin month, yin day, yin hour, and yin minute to bring him good fortune. Wen Xiya's birth details happen to match exactly. His stepmother gives him a dose of medicine and sends him straight into the bridal sedan. Trapped inside the sedan, Wen Xiya is helplessly calling for help when bandits kidnap him as a bride and take him up the mountain. Theme: Fighting upstream.