[Tang 3, a Borderland General and a Clever Noble Lady, Please Wait]
BLURB
When Lao Liu found A Long in the Gobi Desert,
he thought she was just a little mute.
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Desert, garrison fort, salt lake, red cliffs.
A Long loved the wandering heroes in stories. She needed no luggage, only a gust of the west wind.
The setting sun stretched her shadow long. Lao Liu watched her for a while. "You want to come with me?"
"..."
A Long wrote in the sand: I'm mute, not blind.
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The youngest daughter of the Bai family of Taiyuan had only one birthday wish:
to leave the frontier and return to Chang'an.
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Later, during the autumn hunt of the Two August Ones, a general from the Yutian tribes presented three precious hunting gifts to the Bai family.
The Grand Protector of Anxi commanded a mighty army and guarded half the realm.
Every great household in Chang'an knew that no one dared try to snatch away the youngest Bai daughter.
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"Whichever way the storm blows, I'll bear the brunt.
I'll drink strong liquor astride my horse and let my longing run free."
The Young Man Doesn't Dare
READER'S GUIDE
1. A roguishly handsome roughneck and a bickering couple. The only thing a soldier yields to is "softness."
2. Bishamon-ten: the guardian deity of Yutian and protector of the Tang army.
3. Tribal generals: There were 2,536 generals from ethnic minorities during the Tang dynasty, according to A Study of Tribal Generals in the Tang Dynasty.
4. An alternate world, native-born historical romance, Dunhuang and the Silk Road, with a strong Tang-dynasty atmosphere.
Theme: Depicting the medieval era of the Silk Road.
