The Civil Official’s Daughter

Cui Li, born into a family of martial artists, envies people who are graceful, composed, and refined. When she wakes up as the daughter of a civil official, she thinks she'll finally get the chance to become learned and virtuous, elegant and accomplished. But her father spends all day picking fights with people at court. Even after being demoted, he won't settle down, and eventually earns the family a charge of treason severe enough to warrant confiscation of their property. Her older sister is gentle, graceful, and learned, just the dream big sister Cui Li always wanted. But she's too clever for her own good and believes martial force can solve everything. She makes the entire family train in martial arts and plans to marry a general to save their father, saying that if all else fails, they'll storm the execution ground. Cui Li is at a loss. From ancient times to the present, unless you're staging a rebellion, when have generals ever outmatched civil officials? They should obviously seek help from a powerful minister. So she simply knocks out a prince and brings him home. “See? This is how you solve the problem at its root. A prince can't exactly have a father-in-law who's been convicted of a crime.” Of course, the most important thing is that the prince's household has the best etiquette governess. Old Madam Cui: ... Wonderful. They were only going to have their property confiscated, but now the whole clan will probably be executed. She might as well leave first. Theme: Everyone has their own gifts to offer