[The brave, determined and rebellious female chieftain x the cold, self-denied and downtrodden civil servant]
Born in the Yun family in the southwestern frontier, Chu Yuechuan could only be a priestess in name only because his father was a Han Chinese who abandoned his wife and daughter. Chu Yuechuan missed the right to inherit the chieftainship.
There are clan elders vying for power and profit, unable to feed the clan members and people;
There are vassal kings outside who are causing trouble and have many conflicts with the Han people.
Chu Yuechuan stared at the chieftain's official seal and couldn't sleep at night.
She wants to change her mother's surname, seize her official seal, abolish living sacrifices, move to a new village, break clan rules, and find a way out;
She wants to lead her people out of the deep mountains and forests, out of barbarian backwardness, and out of hunger and poverty.
The clan elders scolded her for being fanciful, and the Han officials laughed at her for not overestimating her abilities.
Even her elder brother who admired her asked, "Aman, aren't you afraid of the mountain god punishing you?"
She was lying in the field, biting the ears of rice, not caring:
"If the mountain god really punishes me, the worst he can do is chop me to death and sacrifice the flag."
Later, a Han civil servant who failed in the reform was demoted to this place.
He watched her nonsense and ignored her pleas for help.
But on a rainy night when a flash flood broke out, he limped step by step and walked to her side, holding up an umbrella to block her torrential tears.
He said, "If the mountain god really punishes you, I will accompany you."
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Xu Henian was born in a family of scholars and officials. He was originally the proud son of heaven and the number one scholar.
He joined the officialdom at the age of sixteen and followed his grandfather in carrying out reforms for nine years. However, he ended up having his house ransacked and jailed, and his parents hanged themselves.
Fortunately, his life was spared, but he was deposed and demoted to Yunnan and Guizhou. He could only be a ninth-grade official dealing with chieftains.
On the way to his appointment, his former political enemies sent him a bundle of clothes and a poem from Mr. Fu Zizhan.
He stared at the sentence "The bamboo stick and mango shoes are lighter than the horse", and then looked at the two legs that were now unconscious, and he couldn't tell whether it was ridicule or relief.
Until that day when he was trapped deep in the miasma forest and the meng men held him under the sword, he thought he could finally be freed from this fatal life.
But he heard a whistle in the wind. A foreign girl wearing a wedding dress came riding a horse in the sunset. She broke the long knife with a whip and shouted to him in broken Chinese:
"Han people, stand up!"
Xu Henian looked at her, trembling all over, remembering the sentence in the poem for no reason:
"The mountain tops are shining slantingly, but they are welcoming each other."
Reading Guide
1. Double C in age, 7 years age difference, the male protagonist is disabled in the early stage
2. The background is fictional and the setting is fictional. Please do not substitute reality.
3. Do not allude to any real history/nation/culture, long live national unity
4. Screenshot of the copy on 25.5.20
Purpose: Ideals last forever
