[Coming soon in my author column: Journey to the West: Becoming a Demon]
[Casual blurb]
On her way back from Yangzhou, Lin Jinshu accidentally runs into a former top scholar. He is down on his luck, hacking away at trees on a mountain outside the city.
She happens to overhear that he abandoned the civil service for a military career and became a junior officer, all because of something she once said in jest!
She gives him a once-over, but before she can say a word, the down-on-his-luck scholar wordlessly raises a fearsome axe and charges at her.
Lin Jinshu turns pale. I'm done for!
[Blurb from a supporting character's perspective]
A young woman in the capital has a dream. In it, the new emperor ascends the throne, and Princess Ruisheng, sent away to marry into the Yan kingdom, returns in a grand procession and storms into the court with a blade in hand.
Before everyone's eyes, she chops off one of the emperor's hands, declares herself empress, and then... less than a year later, both the empress and the Great Zhou dynasty are gone!
The young woman believes it with all her heart, then looks around. ???
Shouldn't Princess Ruisheng be on her way to marry into another kingdom?
And what is General Qi, who supposedly died on the battlefield long ago, doing here?!
Lin Jinshu, caught up in a saga of mistaken identities and feuding over a precious pearl: I hear I'm the ruler of a fallen dynasty?
General Qi, standing at the border and shivering in the cold wind: I hear I've been dead for ages?
Reading guide:
1. Ensemble cast.
2. It's hard to tell what's real and what's not.
3. I won't abandon this story!
4. Please be gentle.
5. Currently being revised. Please wait before reading. Follow me on Weibo at Wen Chen Ya for updates. The author has a chronic case of procrastination.
Theme: We are all ordinary people.
Great writing!!!
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