Mountains and Seas Divide Zhongzhou

The upheaval of the realm split Yan Zisu's life in two.

Before she turned sixteen, she was the pampered daughter of a marquis's household, surrounded by flowers and splendor, living in the lap of luxury. At sixteen, a single imperial decree sold her to a foreign people.

When she returned to her homeland, she was the second wife of a powerful general. For the sake of the children her elder sister Yan Ranghe had left behind, she helped her husband replace the Jing with the Yan, walking along the edge of a blade as if on thin ice.

Now the Yan dynasty has been founded. The emperor is ill and out of sight, the crown prince is still young, and the three armies are under her command. At last, her era is beginning.

Great Yan belongs to Yan Ranghe, and it belongs to Yan Zisu, too.

The arrogant young man she met at her lowest point became her rival, her enemy, and her beloved.

She could not let go of her homeland, nor could she leave behind the man she loved.

A Shu, you head east, and I go north. When Great Yan and the Murong Xianbei territories finally meet, we will meet again.

The male lead's perspective: At fifteen, the boy was driven into exile. With just fifteen hundred households of the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled at his back, he swept across the grasslands and, with his younger brother, gradually reclaimed the grass sea and pastures that belonged to him.

He was a true favorite of heaven, looking down on everything in his path. But who knew that his heart had long been hanging by a thread from the peak of a distant nine-story tower in Jianghuai?

A little skit: The Great Khan's younger brother has already taken a third wife. The herders think their own Great Khan is mad with jealousy. Alone in the middle of the night, he sits plucking flower petals: Go, don't go, pursue her, don't pursue her.

The poor flowers are strewn everywhere. Murong, the Great Khan, declares with ringing conviction: Don't go. Don't pursue her.

By dawn, his steed is whinnying as he rides south.

Mountains and seas divide the Central Plains? Then I'll ride right over them.

Yan Zisu: You dare?!

Murong Fu: What else can I do? How about I marry into your family?

A little tip:

Stubborn x proud. Neither of them will say it first.

The setting is fictional, with lots of original details. No need to fact-check.

The female lead and her brother-in-law enter a sham marriage.

Theme: Balance love and career. Pursue both, and give both your all.