When the envoy arrived in the capital, a banquet was held at the palace, and Wen Yu saw him again.
Yao Chengbi had been sent to the capital at the age of nine, and thirteen years had passed since then. He was just as useless as the rumors claimed.
During all this time, trapped in the capital, she had often crossed paths with him. It seemed they were fated to meet.
With the war growing more desperate and no capable people left at court, Wen Yu traded her skirts for armor and set off for a battle they were bound to lose.
As she prepared to leave, Yao Chengbi had someone bring her a little boat folded from pale green paper. When she unfolded it, she found a talisman for safe travels inside, along with a line of elegant handwriting concealing a sharp edge.
-
After Emperor Yuanzhao suddenly died, the tide of battle turned decisively in one direction. The enemy seemed to have divine aid, smashing through defenses and taking two cities in succession.
Wen Yu spread word that the Tiger Guard Army would not be able to hold out, covering the civilians' retreat eastward.
She was recalled to the capital and imprisoned for abandoning her post without a fight.
Amid the struggle for the throne, Wen Yu uncovered the court's traitors who were colluding with the enemy. While interrogating one of them, she unexpectedly learned the truth behind her father and elder brother's deaths. In her despair, she remembered the words written on the paper: "When rites and music fall into ruin, the signs of a kingdom's collapse are clear. General, tread carefully."
Still, she resolutely took up the banner of the Tiger Guard Army.
When their father taught them, the first thing he taught was loyalty, the second was courage, and the third was... to prepare a straw mat.
Her elder brother asked him, "Doesn't the book say a soldier should return wrapped in his horse's hide?"
Their father rubbed his head, then picked up Wen Yu, who wasn't even as tall as his leg.
The two new graves added to the Wen family were both empty tombs containing only their clothes and belongings.
Wen Yu thought her mother was getting old, and her health was not what it had been. If anything happened...
Before setting out, she went to the North Market and bought the most expensive straw mat she could find.
She'd wanted to buy a horse hide, but unfortunately, she hadn't brought enough money.
-
"Yixiantian is about to fall. Come with me."
Wen Yu held her spear crosswise in front of her, sat down with imposing ease, and sized up this person whose face was still familiar, yet who seemed a stranger in every other way.
"The Tartars have only reached Suiyang. How do you know Yixiantian is about to fall?"
Female General X Hostage Prince from Another Country
Blurb edited on April 30, 2024.
1v1 / Both leads are each other's first / The female lead is genuinely skilled at fighting / Though she isn't burly, she has an absolutely incredible figure / The firm, muscular type (it's the body of my dreams T~T I'm working out, working out, working out!)
Entirely fictional, so please don't take it too seriously.
Theme: Time is the best medicine.
