When I Bloom, All Flowers Wither

After the late emperor's death, the Great Yan's lands were invaded by barbarians. Countless lives were lost, and the people suffered terribly.

The imperial princess Su Changxi stepped forward, leading the soldiers of Yan in a desperate defense of the city. After eight years of fierce fighting, she finally crushed the enemy, reclaimed Yan's lost territory, and restored the realm.

Now, a new emperor ascends the throne.

Su Changxi supports the late emperor's orphaned heir as he takes the throne, and has the new emperor swear before the officials: The Great Yan dynasty will not cede territory, pay reparations, enter political marriages, pay tribute, or sign treaties that compromise its sovereignty and humiliate the nation.

The enthronement ceremony ends.

With the Great Yan dynasty in need of rebuilding, Grand Princess Su Changxi dies on Mount Lingxian. In gratitude, the late emperor posthumously honors Changxi as the Grand Princess Who Guards the Nation, bestowing on her the title Changning.

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When Su Changxi wakes from a dream, she has become the legitimate daughter of a fallen noble family in the Western Yu dynasty, a thousand years in the past. She is treated with contempt at every turn.

Just as she decides to make the best of her situation, she encounters a band of slave traders.

The boy in the cage, beaten until he is covered in blood, is none other than Gao Xingyang, the legendary general from the history of the Western Yu dynasty, and the commander she admires most.

In the history books, Gao Xingyang earned countless military honors, but became a pawn in the struggle for imperial power and met a tragic end, leaving no trace of his remains.

Looking at the young man in front of her, who has just blown up the kitchen and is grinning at her with his face blackened by soot, Changxi falls into thought. How did this hapless boy become a legendary general?

A few years later, Gao Xingyang makes his name with a single battle and becomes the Western Yu emperor's Tiger Guard General. A brilliant young talent, he wins glory on the battlefield.

As countless princes and ministers clamor to make him their son-in-law, he declares that he is already married.

Everyone knows Gao Xingyang commands a formidable army and has a mysterious strategist who rarely shows his face. But no one knows that his strategist is the Grand Princess Who Guards the Nation of Great Yan, who, a thousand years later, will be able to best a hundred officials in debate and command armies on the battlefield.

When they learn Gao Xingyang's wife is a fallen noblewoman, the daughters of aristocratic families sneer at her, and plenty of women want to take her place. But nothing can come between the young couple.

While tending the vegetable garden at home, Gao Xingyang accidentally snaps one of Changxi's long beans. The God of War, who never flinches amid ten thousand troops, trembles in fear.

When Changxi comes home, she finds Gao Xingyang carrying a bundle of thorny branches on his back, with several "corpses" of long beans laid out in front of him. "My lady, I've gone and done something wrong again."

Changxi: "..."

Cool, aloof grand princess X loyal puppy of a young general

Cover art authorized by Shi Li Chang Huan and Yu An

Theme: When autumn comes on the eighth day of the ninth month, my flowers will bloom and all others will die