I got up early and stayed up late, typing away until my eyes were going blurry, only to come up with... to put it bluntly, this doesn't even count as writing. It's just a typing clerk's practice exercise. What makes it even more frustrating is that I paid a fortune for the cover. Better to let it rot in a folder than humiliate myself with it.
Story blurb:
Before the age of sixteen, Bai Xiangling was a notorious daughter of a military family.
But aside from stealing birds' eggs and taming hawks, she could generally manage to maintain the manners of a proper young lady. Her life was chaotic, but full of fun.
At sixteen, she went to the frontier herself to retrieve her grandfather's body. Her fiance led troops to raid her home and forced her into a political marriage.
To protect the prime minister's residence, she clung to the thigh of the unambitious Ninth Imperial Uncle and faked her death to escape the marriage.
But her only hope was a man who commanded a powerful army and did nothing but eat and wait to die.
Li Lan told her, "What's mine is yours. Don't be shy."
So she took the military seal and became a bandit in the jianghu.
She suffered plenty of grievances and took plenty of beatings. She founded a rebel army, conquered the Xiao Kingdom, declared herself King of Xiaoxiang, and traded the kingdom for an imperial edict.
Many years later, the edict named the Ninth Imperial Uncle as the man who must marry into the Xiao Kingdom and become her royal consort.
The ceremony took place in the second month of spring. The history books recorded: A spring offering, to the envy of all.
#The gods are still trapped in their predicament, borrowing a hand to cover the sky.
She was a fox in a panic, borrowing power to become the king of the forest.
He was a bright moon in the water. Touch him, and a pool of nightmares would form.
A story about a barbarian queen and her husband, the Ninth Imperial Uncle, who keeps saying, "Don't come any closer!"
A few things to know:
[1] Inspired by the Tang dynasty, set in a fictional world blending all sorts of things. Please don't scrutinize the history across thousands of years.
[2] There are everyday moments and an ensemble cast, the jianghu and the imperial court. Lighthearted but with a few rough patches, sweet but also heartbreaking. Shuangjie, happy ending.
[3] He isn't her biological uncle, and they aren't related. Bai Xiangling was once engaged to the Third Prince, which is why she calls him Imperial Uncle.
Theme: A fierce tiger in the heart, a rose beneath the nose.
The plot design, twists, and characters' actions lack logic.