Why Are All the Heroes of the Martial World So Nervous?

Jiang Ling'er is beautiful, comes from a good family, and even chose her own husband. He's handsome, talented, and has a wonderful disposition. In short, she's had a charmed life.

She has a good father to thank for that.

For most of her life, she's lived freely and boldly, a notorious young escort agency master known throughout Jinling for throwing her weight around.

Then one day, her father, the leader of the righteous martial world, takes his own life, and someone she trusts most runs a sword through her chest, leaving her to die in a pool of blood.

At last, the father and daughter, guilty of every imaginable sin, reap what they've sown.

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Some time later.

On a rain-soaked wilderness, one pair of almond-shaped eyes suddenly opens among a crowd of walking corpses.

Her good family is gone, her reputation is in tatters, and her wonderful husband is gone too.

In his place is a brat with a sour face and an even worse temper, a little venomous creature.

Reborn, Jiang Ling'er thinks:

Heaven has finally decided to come after her.

Note:

1. An alternate-history Song dynasty, with a fresh, ensemble wuxia fantasy and a passionate streak.

2. They divorce within five chapters. Xiao Ji is not the male lead, and later becomes a notorious mad dog.

3. The heroine is career-driven and determined to make her escort agency bigger and stronger.

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Jiang Maolian is the famous tofu beauty of the surrounding villages, though her reputation is less than stellar. She's young and widowed, and saddled with a grown-up younger brother-in-law who's a burden to boot.

When she first took him in, the boy was fourteen but looked like a ten-year-old runt. Though she hadn't raised him from infancy, Jiang Maolian believes she's treated him well: she'd give him the stars if he asked, never let him go hungry or thirsty, and even paid for him to attend a private school. The boy made good, earning an official degree that brought her honor, and he's dutiful too. Maolian is pleased as can be, thinking that at last she can enjoy the good life, until one day...

The boy uses everything she taught him against her!

Not content with refining her into a cultivation furnace, he spouts shameless, immoral, and utterly outrageous talk about love!

What a waste of all that schooling!

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Yin Xian has never thought of Jiang Maolian as his sister-in-law. He didn't before, he doesn't now, and he never will.

At most, he'll call her sister, and only in public. In private, he's done all sorts of unspeakable, beastly things. So why does she still treat him like a child?!

Jiang Maolian has been wonderful to him. He knows it, and he knows he's been utterly ungrateful.

But he doesn't want the stars or the moon. He only wants her to be his wife.

Is that so hard???

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Jiang Maolian thinks he's gone crazy. She doesn't understand: They met in a chaotic world, endured hardship, and depended on each other to survive. What does he have to complain about? When did he... go so terribly wrong???

Yin Xian can't figure it out either. She dotes on me and cherishes me, so how could she not love me?

Theme: Finding yourself