The Sickly Beauty Forced to Live as a Hostage

A fake innocent flower who's actually a twisted hostage princess and a ruthless, merciless, multiple-personality female general

A dark, seductive bottom and a lunatic top

After a war, the victor claims the throne and the loser is conquered. One by one, the nations send hostages to Qin, and Jiang sends the renowned Jiang Ruoliu, famous throughout the Six States.

Jiang Ruoliu is graceful and peerlessly beautiful, but she gasps after three steps and coughs after five. She's a frail, sickly girl with one foot already in the grave. Even when the young princes and princesses traveling with her bully her, they only dare trade barbs, afraid that a blink might leave them saddled with a death on their hands.

The Great Qin general Zhou Qingyan is temperamental and notorious for chopping off heads as easily as slicing melons. Everyone says she's a complete lunatic.

Not long after arriving in Qin, Jiang Ruoliu accidentally offended her. Those who knew Zhou Qingyan's methods all predicted that the sickly girl wouldn't live long. But later, they saw the madwoman following Jiang Ruoliu everywhere, catering to her every whim.

Everyone: "Well, well. Turns out even a lunatic can't resist a beauty."

But before they could finish marveling, Jiang Ruoliu died. Rumor had it that Zhou Qingyan had killed her by mistake, leaving no body behind and scattering even her ashes to the winds.

Zhou Qingyan went even madder. Clutching the young princess's belongings, she rode her horse through Southern Jiang and pointed her blade toward Northern Wei, until she ran into Jiang Ruoliu, who was supposed to have been dead for a long time, outside a Qin brothel.

The young hostage princess, whose faked death had failed: "If I said I came back from the dead, would you believe me?"

There must be a fish beneath the bait.

Blurb written November 3, 2023.

Theme: Life above all, freedom above all.