The Heroine Says She Has a Mind of Her Own

A headstrong heroine x a gentle, refined young prince

Sang Fu once thought the hardest hurdle she would ever face was the densely written martial arts manual her master had passed down to her.

Then she met Xiao Huaining.

She stood up for justice in the street, beating up a lecher who had attacked an innocent young woman.

He said, "Your intentions are good, miss, but if everyone follows your example and abuses vigilante justice, killing to stop killing, it will not be good for the Great Qing."

She saw him being bullied by the fat, arrogant Crown Prince, yet too afraid to speak up, and drew her sword to help him.

He said, "The Crown Prince is the future ruler. It is only right that he discipline me."

She fought through mountains of corpses and seas of blood to save his life during the palace coup.

The first thing he said when he saw her was, "Why did you kill him?"

He was always going on about propriety and decorum, about how everything had to be proper and how society was falling apart.

Sang Fu could take no more. Pointing at his nose, she swore at him, "Someone had a knife to your throat, and you're asking why I killed him? Your brain's gone haywire. You're beyond saving!"

In the tenth year of Yuanhe, she saved his life, and he tried to blow her head off with all his talk of propriety!

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Xiao Huaining had lived his whole life by the rules. Ritual was ritual, law was law, and both were inviolable truths.

It was only after meeting Sang Fu that he learned there were people like her in this world.

She disregarded rules and laws, and did things without seeking any benefit for herself.

She rescued a commoner who had nearly been assaulted. Even when an officer pointed a spear at her, she could still hold her chin high and say, "I will save her. If you have the guts, then hack me to pieces right here."

Afterward, he got her out of jail and asked why she had done it.

She said, "We only get a few decades in this life. To do what ordinary people cannot, to right wrongs and uphold justice: that is a worthy way to die."

The Crown Prince was debauched and tyrannical, abusing his power. Even a passing dog would be beaten with thirty strokes of the cane if it so much as looked at him the wrong way.

Xiao Huaining did not know what had come over him. For the first time in his life, he stepped out of line, defying the Crown Prince for a puppy.

He thought holding the dog in his arms and enduring the Crown Prince's insults and beatings was already pushing his limits.

She went one better: she whipped the Crown Prince.

Still, she had learned something from him. Apparently, she had taken his words to heart. Instead of standing her ground against the Imperial Guards, she relied on her superior martial arts and fled three miles in an instant, puppy in her arms.

On the day of the palace coup, he finally understood what his teacher meant when he said, "People never change their nature."

The Crown Prince was still the same rotten man, trying to save himself by selling out his mother, wife, and children.

The usurper's words sounded righteous and noble, but he, too, was a man who would stop at nothing for power, planning to slaughter the old dynasty.

And she was still herself, a sword in her left hand and a whip in her right, fighting her way to him.

He barely managed to take her hand before the usurper, panicking, tried to negotiate. "With skill like yours, heroine, if you are willing, I can offer you ten thousand taels of gold and a thousand acres of fertile land, and appoint you commander of the Imperial Guard of the new dynasty, "

"Enough nonsense."

She cut him off without mercy, and an arrow did the same.

With a thunderous crash, the old dynasty finally fell.

Xiao Huaining's life changed completely from that day on.

As for Sang Fu, she remained the same wandering heroine, doing what ordinary people could not.

Though one thing did change: she now had a man by her side, constantly reminding her not to go around saying that dying for a worthy cause was the way to go.

1. The heroine will not join the court at the end. She will always be a free-spirited wandering heroine. √

2. 1v1, both leads have no previous sexual partners, happy ending, and they grow together.

Theme: Lend me your ear, my lord, and hear my song.