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A loyal blade for the emperor, kind in the first half of life and ruthless in the second x a mad dog who seems frivolous and good-for-nothing in public, but schemes and plots in private
They first met eight years ago. Luo Jinshu opened the cage holding Di Yuanheng, but he pounced on her like a wild wolf and bit her wrist. The bite mark became the only bond between them.
Eight years later, they met again. Dressed in red as bright as fire, she rode hard into the bustling, complicated capital. The first arrow she shot after leaving home was to hijack the carriage of the Third Prince. She thought he was a good-for-nothing, a womanizer, and he infuriated her to no end.
But then he suddenly grabbed her wrist. Using the rough bite mark as a clue, he recognized her and lost himself for a moment. He spied on her over wine, gave her flowers in a moment of weakness, and let her treat him like a venomous snake, avoiding him at all costs.
The court was full of intrigue, enemy states watched hungrily, and each prince had his own ambitions. Di Yuanheng had never wanted to drag her into this mess. But then he heard people pointing at her and lecturing her, telling her to be a proper young lady, someone they could mold however they liked. She raised her jade tablet and volunteered for the mission, each word ringing clear and firm.
"Though a flame may be small, it can still set the wilderness ablaze. If I can protect the country, I care not whether I live or die."
He thought he ought to let her do it.
So he walked toward her at the capital gates, gathered her hair, and handed her a bow. A thousand words of love pressed against his heart and lay hidden in his deep eyes, but when he spoke, he sent her off to war.
"May you travel a thousand miles, take the enemy's head, and pierce their throat with a swift arrow."
She thought she must have misjudged him.
*
She had seen the desolate silence of the borderlands beneath a sky full of yellow sand, and felt the bone-chilling cold of crossing an icy river. She carried the battle standard and stood among the corpses. When the late autumn wind roared, stirring up waves of bloody air, she suddenly longed to go home.
But her eldest brother had died in service at court, and her second brother had fallen on the battlefield. Gripping her bow and straightening her back, she looked toward home, then turned and walked once more toward the smoke-filled battlefield.
Reader's guide:
* Two strong leads. The heroine is the main focus. She is somewhat impulsive and prone to overthinking early on, but will grow over time.
* More than ten secondary couples, with a large ensemble cast. The leads have relatively more scenes. The main romance is male-female, with two male-male secondary couples and one subtle female-female pairing.
* 98% of the poems in this story are original, while the remaining 2% are adapted. Sources for adapted poems will be listed in the author's notes.
* Happy ending! Happy ending! Happy ending! The other couples' endings are uncertain, so drop the story if it's not to your taste.
* The first 100,000 words are free to read. Revisions have made the pirated version very different from the official text, so please support the official version. Thanks for your support!
[Added later: This is my first completed novel. I planned the initial draft in 2018, so the early chapters may feel dated and immature. The final chapters were completed in 2024 and are much more mature. Please don't read if that bothers you.]
Weibo: @Zhuo Zhi Yu, alternate account
Theme: Love and peace
Madam, what are you doing? The Guinness record is typing 807 letters per minute. Calculating that each Chinese character requires six letters, you can type approximately 134 words per minute. Since you are not the record holder, let's calculate it as 100 words per minute. According to the standards of the world organization, a person's healthy sleep time is eight hours, and you spend about two hours eating every day, 20 minutes to go to the toilet, 40 minutes to wash, one hour to exercise, two hours to get inspiration, and then stripping off another hour of dazed fishing, you should have nine hours to type and type 54,000 words, but you only put so little content every day, how come? To be honest, is it a deduction? None of the donkeys in the production team dared to rest like this, so my wife quickly got up to code!!! Don't make me beg you
My parents are not at home, and I am writing alone. I am waiting passionately and lonelyly. The sweet little window dd moves to the column (referring to). Long · Machiavellian portraits from ancient times "Sun and Moon" · Noble Little Sun and Loyal Dog Master × Cold White Cut Black Beauty Proton# You don't need to know that people's hearts are sinister, I will protect you for the rest of my life# Short story · Love and kill each other in pure ancient words "Gold and Jade" · Noble daughter of a noble family × son of a guilty minister #You hold an umbrella and go first, I will wait for the rain to stop under the eaves# I collected some articles and saved half of them in an open volume
The one who comes to save the heroine is not the hero, but his friend and the female counterpart. How awesome! (Although, when will the emotional line between the male and female protagonists be advanced?)
Mo Chen felt uncomfortable. From Mo Chen's point of view, he followed Xin Yi diligently, but in the end he was not as high as Jin Shu. But Mo Chen does not have a God's perspective and does not know the relationship between Jin Shu and Xin Yi. Moreover, Xin Yi said that the deputy master of the pavilion is a false name. I feel that if this is not explained clearly, there will definitely be problems for Mo Chen later. After all, the prince believes in him so much.
Woo woo 😭 After the flowers are finished, vb saw the postscript and came to add a comment. When he saw the post, he really lamented how difficult it is for a young author 😭 😭 😭 I wish Yuzai will write better every book and become a great author soon!!! 💪 💪 💪
Finished with flowers!! Waiting for the extra episode!!! (Quietly vote not to "leave" or "to") (wink) (expect) 🤩 🤩 🤩
It's over. The heroine is superbly portrayed. She is very ideal and independent. It's not easy to go all the way with the third child. Wipe away your tears. Please be sweet and sweet in the extra story!
Happy New Year Gugu!!!
Happy New Year Oh Oh Oh Oh~
The Second Prince's outburst was so touching. In fact, the Second Prince was also very pitiful.