Song of the Frontier

Meng Hanzhang, Meng Hanzhang.

The General's Estate was disappointed by Meng Hanzhang's birth, yet still placed great hopes in her.

In the fifth year of Wende, every member of the General's Estate died on the battlefield, and the general's wife took her own life.

All that remained of the vast estate was a baby girl still in swaddling clothes.

No one could see the General's Estate's joy at the birth of a son.

Moved by the general's family's sacrifice, the Emperor of Daliang took their orphaned child into the palace and granted her the title of Princess Mingyue.

She was raised by the empress alongside her young daughter, Princess Hengshan.

In the twenty-third year of Wende, the borderlands were in peril. The grassland cavalry pointed their swords toward the Central Plains, the people were terrified, and the court was shaken.

With the nation in danger, court officials submitted petitions to leave the capital and escape disaster. Not one volunteered to go to the front!

At eighteen, Princess Mingyue, Meng Hanzhang, cut off her hair and went to the Golden Throne Hall carrying her father's memorial tablet. There, she obtained the tiger tally, donned her armor, and rode into battle.

At the time, no one believed that the princess, raised amid the splendor of the capital, would return alive.

Who could have imagined that victory reports would arrive one after another? A brilliant new general had risen in Daliang, and the borderlands were finally at peace.

Reader's Guide:

1. This is a story about the female lead growing up alongside her childhood friend.

2. There is a male lead, but the romance is a minor part of the story.

3. Princess Hengshan, the childhood friend, is love-struck in the early chapters, but later focuses on her career and eventually ascends the throne as empress.

4. Major battles will draw on historical events as reference material.

5. Inspiration: I simply wanted to write about a female general whom nobody believes in, but who has a cheat-like advantage bestowed from on high and leaves everyone stunned. I was also inspired by the video