Six years ago, in Danzhou.
Feng Guanzhi's assassination attempt failed, and she was ambushed. To dispel the poison of lust, she sneaked into a brothel and casually dragged out a male courtesan to spend a night of passion with her.
Afterward, she tossed down ten taels of silver to buy his freedom and swept away.
Who would have thought this wolfdog of a young man was the youngest son of the Chang family, of the famed Xiaoyao Sword Sect?
From then on, rumors spread throughout the martial world: Young Master Chang was a chivalrous hero who hated evil and vowed to stand against the demonic cult's wicked fiends...
Reader's Guide:
1. The heroine is decisive, ruthless, and a skilled actress with multiple identities, not all of which are revealed at the beginning. The hero acts respectable in public and like a scoundrel in private; he's secretly scheming, and one kind word is all it takes for him to offer up his leash.
2. Six-year age gap, with the man younger.
3. The blurb is rough, but this is actually an ensemble story: martial-world intrigue and courtly power struggles.
By the way... This story shares its martial-world setting with my completed novel Spring Night Travels. You could consider them part of the same series. The timeline is more than a decade apart, and the stories are relatively independent, though some familiar faces make occasional return appearances.
*Updates whenever inspiration strikes (aiming for more than one update a week). The main story won't be paywalled while it's being serialized.
Core theme: Wield the sword for all under heaven
May the flowers bloom and the flowers bloom, good luck~