The Lady Is a Master Strategist

[The entire novel is complete]

To find out what happened to her father, Su Mian suppresses her true nature and subtly tries to curry favor with the Sixth Prince, Mei Songjin, who has come from the capital on an inspection tour.

After spending time with him, Su Mian discovers that the Sixth Prince is not only unambitious, but also has no concern for his country! The more she looks at him, the angrier she gets, privately cursing him as unworthy of being a man of Great Yan!

So when she learns where her father is, she lays her cards on the table. "Our engagement was only a joke. Go back and marry your noble lady!"

She can't pretend to be meek for another moment. As soon as she finishes speaking, she changes out of her dignified dress, grabs her red-tasseled spear, mounts her horse, and rides off without a trace.

*

Mei Songjin has spent twenty years in the capital. For the first five, everyone praised him as a heaven-sent talent, saying he was destined for greatness.

For the next fifteen, he became a thorn in everyone's side. One misstep brought a blizzard of impeachment memorials.

The capital was dull, so he traveled to clear his mind. Only then did he discover that there were people whose hearts were as warm as the sun.

He wanted to be selfish for once and keep her by his side.

But she was born to be free, and the cramped, stifling residence of the Sixth Prince in the capital could never be worthy of being her home.

The sky is vast and birds may fly wherever they please. He was willing to be the wind. If he could protect her for a little while as she spread her wings, so she would meet no resistance, that would be enough.

*

From the heroine's perspective

Everyone says that a woman should know her place, serve her husband, and raise her children.

But one day, someone told me that the only path in this world that can be explained in four words is following your heart.

From then on, I felt that my path should include not only the red-tasseled spear in my hand, but also this person.

Reader's guide:

* Happy ending, both leads' first time

* There is a reason the hero is the sixth son

* I'm open to constructive criticism, but please don't personally attack me

* Enjoy reading

Cover artist: Yue Ning

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[Preorder blurb] (Both leads are reborn)

Song Rendong has a fiance.

Her fiance is a year younger than her. His family fell on hard times, so he came to seek refuge with hers.

Looking at the frail young man before her, Song Rendong averts her eyes, unable to bear the sight. "I'll lend you some money. You can go find somewhere to stay."

Ming Lang fights to keep his disappointment from showing, but quietly presses on her weakness. "I should have known no one in this world could ever like me. It's only natural that you don't want to marry me, Sister. I'll leave now and stop causing you trouble..."

Song Rendong: ...

Their elders arranged the engagement before they died, so Song Rendong has no choice but to let him stay. She silently reminds herself that Ming Lang is calculating and that she must be careful around him.

But unlike in her previous life, Ming Lang seems to have completely changed. In this life, he is obedient and well-behaved, without a trace of his stubborn cruelty from before.

Later, someone secretly comes to Song Rendong to complain.

One says, "Ming Lang never tells the truth. Doctor Song, don't let him fool you!"

Another says, "Ming Lang is so petty. Doctor Song, you're such a good physician. Why don't you treat him?"

Ming Lang stands nearby with his head lowered, silent, his lashes trembling as his fingertips lightly clutch the hem of her clothes, as if afraid she'll drive him away.

Song Rendong thinks Ming Lang is now gentle and kind. These people are exaggerating and being sarcastic, so they can't be trusted.

Until she catches Ming Lang sharing tea and conversation with a treacherous eunuch in the imperial court, speaking cheerfully as if human lives were no more than weeds. His eyes and brows carry the same coldness as in his previous life.

Song Rendong thinks it over all night, then kicks Ming Lang out of the clinic.

Autumn rain pours down. The young man, now taller than her, bursts into the clinic, drenched from head to toe. He wraps a long arm around her and pulls her into his embrace. No longer obedient as before, he speaks with cutting sharpness. "Sister, you save lives. Why do you say I'm beyond saving?"

"You're morally corrupt. I can't treat that."

Ming Lang's low laugh carries over the autumn rain outside. His gaze lingers on every inch of her face, tender and lingering.

Wrong. The cure is right here.

In this life and the last, only Rendong can cure his affliction.

Happy ending

A sweet-talking, secretly sinister, jealous schemer x a single-minded, slow-to-catch-on female physician who wants to cure people

Theme: Sincerity is always the ultimate weapon