Liu Yunpan, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Dingbei and a female general of the Great Yi, married Sheng Yanran, the Great Yi's eldest princess.
Everyone knew the two women were both female and that the emperor had arranged their marriage. It was the first such marriage in the several hundred years since the founding of the Great Yi.
But no one knew Liu Yunpan had been in love with the eldest princess for a long time. Nor did anyone know that on her beloved's birthday, Liu Yunpan had ridden a fast horse day and night for a thousand miles, just to catch a distant glimpse of her sweetheart standing atop the palace wall.
Nor did anyone know that at the New Year's palace banquet, Liu Yunpan, unable to hold her liquor, accepted every drink offered and drank until her stomach burned, all so she could stay in the palace one moment longer and see her beloved again.
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After the wedding, Liu Yunpan was content. Her beloved was wonderful in every way and treated her considerately, but there was one small regret: her beloved never let her get close. Usually, her beloved slept in the bed while Liu Yunpan slept on the couch. Her beloved said she needed more time to adjust to becoming a wife.
Liu Yunpan let her have her way, until one day she accidentally saw her beloved holding the hand of Ruan Yunxin, a hostage princess from Beiliang, asking after her with tender concern and promising, "Wait a little longer. I'll divorce her soon, and then we can be together..."
From a corner of the palace wall, Liu Yunpan gazed at the pair and felt her heart turn cold.
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Not long afterward, enemy forces reached the city walls. To reduce casualties among the Great Yi soldiers, Liu Yunpan used herself as bait. After being captured on a sheer cliff, she faced the Great Yi army that had come after her. The enemy general sneered and dragged out another person: the hostage princess from Beiliang. He had her brought to the edge of the cliff alongside Liu Yunpan, then smiled cruelly at Sheng Yanran, commander of the Great Yi forces. "Only one of these two can live. Which will you choose?"
Liu Yunpan had already seen her beloved's choice in her expression.
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Liu Yunpan thought: Better to die than suffer humiliation. With the last of her strength, she struggled to leap from the cliff.
No divorce, only widowhood.
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Liu Yunpan, who had leapt from the cliff, didn't know that after the abyss swallowed her, her wife, who had been set on divorcing her, went mad! With bloodshot eyes, she killed everyone who tried to stop her, drenched in blood as she fought to reach the edge of the cliff, determined to follow Liu Yunpan into death and join her on the road to the underworld...
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Gentle and refined young general x cool and dignified eldest princess
Liu Yunpan x Sheng Yanran
One-on-one, both sexually inexperienced
Happy ending
Theme: Striving for equality in love and realizing one's own worth
