Lu Heng's uncle, a drunkard, has gone missing. She follows the trail to the last place he was seen, where she finds only a girl with crippled legs, her head covered in blood, smiling as she says, "Take me with you, or you'll never see him again."
But Lu Heng is sickly and could keel over at any moment, so she has no choice but to take jobs wherever she can to earn silver.
Someone offers eight hundred gold to escort a person. As it turns out, it's a delicate young master who clutches his chest, refuses to drink anything but Zisun tea or ride in anything but a fine carriage, and gets dizzy for half a day if the journey is bumpy. By the time they reach their destination, the employer has disappeared.
She hasn't earned a single copper, and she's wound up with two deadweights.
Later
The one in the wheelchair stands atop a tall building, with a great army bearing down outside the city. She smiles sweetly. "If you get in my way, I'll kill you."
The sickly one who clutches his chest wears heavy armor. His eyes are frosty, colder than the moonlight. "This has nothing to do with you."
Oh, so they're both following political intrigue plotlines, while she's set on a family reunion plot. Who cares about your royal clans and your blood feuds? If you've eaten my food, you do what I say.
The one with the crippled legs, mend these clothes and have your soldiers fix the courtyard wall. The one pretending to be sick, go chop some wood. That heavy armor is about to break the door. Take it off!
The Marquis Xie's only daughter and the Earl's legitimate son: "Oh."
What an outrage. You really can't bring home every stray cat and dog you find by the road.
This novel has two female leads and is a mishmash of martial arts and political intrigue, with each having an established male love interest. A wooden powerhouse of a woman, a caring mother and killer, paired with a pampered young earl who knows nothing about the five grains; and a scheming, white-lotus, mad daughter of a military family paired with an upright, kind-hearted young general.
I aim to make it vivid, thrilling, and full of satisfying revenge. I'm still cramming on my martial arts knowledge.
Theme: The times surge like a flood, sweeping away countless things in the wind and rain.
