What?! My Bandit Dad Has Ascended the Throne!

[A thrilling war story, a redemptive romance: female warlord Lin Ying x loyal general Pei Zhao]

In an age of warring lords, human life is cheap as grain. On the frontier, a group of starving old hunters pick up their woodcutting axes, defeat the county's hapless young viscount, open the granaries and claim the mountain as their own. Their followers number in the thousands.

The next year, the bandit chief's youngest daughter is born. She's a pink-cheeked little bundle, yet even more rambunctious than her brothers. But as she keeps raising a ruckus... her father ascends the throne!

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Lin Ying is reborn in ancient times. Her family is desperately poor, but luckily her father is bold, and their circumstances improve.

Still, Lin Ying thinks her father could be even bolder.

[The Lin family army's weapons are crude, and they always get bullied in fights.]

Lin Ying: "The old immortal in my dream said steel blades are the sharpest. But we'd have to use the coal and iron ore from the neighboring county, and neither belongs to us. What a shame."

Her father grits his teeth and leads his brothers to conquer the neighboring county.

[Their troops are growing, but there's not enough food, and her father is so worried he can't sleep.]

Lin Ying: "The old immortal in my dream said the soil in the southern lands is reddish black, so rich it practically oozes oil. One person can farm it and feed a whole family. But it doesn't belong to us. What a shame."

Her uncles roll up their sleeves. "Don't worry about it, Yingying. Leave it to us!"

Later, the Lin family army, a ragtag force that none of the other lords had ever taken seriously, sweeps through the land, reclaims lost territory, drives back the barbarians, unifies the entire Central Plains, and establishes a new dynasty.

Lin Ying: "Everyone's working so hard. I can just lie back and win by painting a rosy picture."

Everyone: "The eldest princess is blessed by the immortals and has heaven-given strength. She's never lost a battle. Don't underestimate yourself!"

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Lin Ying once saved a beautiful young man down on his luck simply because she liked what she saw.

The boy is taciturn, carries a blood feud, and has the eyes of a wolf cub.

But Lin Ying likes that. It's thrilling to watch.

So she treats his wounds, gives him delicious food, handsome clothes, and a sharp blade, and spends her days dressing up beautifully.

The wolf cub gradually softens, and sometimes even whines like a puppy to beg for affection.

Pei Zhao has been a young nobleman riding out in fine clothes and a demon wallowing in the mud.

The purity in his heart was stained black, but someone beckoned to him despite all the filth on him and pulled him back into the world of the living.

From then on, he is the softest armor before her and her strongest shield.

[An ambitious, all-round female warlord x a ruthless, devoted general puppy]

· I know this is another story about an obscure subject, but I really love it, and there isn't enough to read, so I had to write it myself.

· The heroine is wild by nature, born into a family with immense strength. She's coldly beautiful and slender. Yes, she's that idealized. If you're writing a novel, you might as well make it fun.

· Set in an alternate Warring States period, roughly around the end of the Shang dynasty, though the setting is very loosely based on history. There's a small ensemble cast, along with farming and infrastructure-building.

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the light.