A ruthless, sharp-tongued, scheming minister x a rebellious heroine who refuses to be pushed around
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A new emperor takes the throne, and the realm descends into chaos.
No one dares say who is loyal and who is treacherous. Rumor has it the newly enthroned emperor has two right-hand men.
One is a refined gentleman, mild-mannered, dressed in a blue robe and holding a paper fan, who serves as the Minister of Mines.
The other is a masked demon, a pale-faced scholar in a crimson official robe, who serves as Grand Preceptor Xu.
The two men manipulate the clouds and command the rain. This splendid realm is like a toy in their hands, ready to be kneaded and reshaped at will. Yet one person who clearly doesn't value her life calmly remarks:
"Could it be that you two are treacherous ministers who'll plague the realm for a thousand years?"
What's more, she threatens the man in the crimson robe and black official hat.
"If you don't protect me, your Great Shang empire is doomed!"
"He who wins me, wins the realm!"
2
Xu Zhiheng was taught from childhood:
"Your future duty is to clear the court of traitors for the emperor. You must give him your whole heart and soul."
In the freezing winter lake and the scorching summer heat, he was forced to practice swordsmanship and study the art of power to an almost pathological degree. Whenever he made a mistake, he had to kneel in the ancestral hall and take dozens of lashes.
The unruly boy grew into a refined gentleman, a pale-faced scholar, yet he used that very face to commit cruel, sinister acts.
When he first saw her, he despised her. Anyone who disturbed His Majesty or threatened the realm deserved to die, and here she was, brazenly calling him a treacherous minister.
"And you think you're in a position to bargain with me?"
Later, he was completely fed up with her and declared:
"One day, I'll kill you."
He said that three years ago. Now he is kneeling on the floor, rubbing his pale, scholar-like face against her palm, his enchanting eyes glimmering as he blinks at her.
"Won't you look at me?"
"I miss you."
The male lead starts out a brooding, murderous schemer, then becomes an obsessive, jealous, loyal puppy.
The heroine is decisive, rebellious, and a truly formidable woman. Later, she trains the male lead like Lin Daiyu training a dog, and he suffers through the long road to winning back his wife.
3
Jiang Yingqing works at a metallurgical research institute. After an accident in which a mine collapses, she transmigrates into the body of Jiang Yingqing, the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family, who has suffered eighteen years of humiliation.
The memories of her disgrace are vivid.
She has exceptional metallurgical skills. She revises the methods for mining ore and the processes for smelting it, making that ruthless man use her as his own weapon.
In the middle of the night, she takes a knife and slays the people who humiliated her, then appears before him with their heads.
"Host, you've unlocked the ability to collect ores with a single click. Would you like to use it?"
The mountains' worth of ore vanishes overnight, all of it forged into cold weapons. Will she use them to amass a fortune, or to enrich the nation and strengthen its people?
First, she puts that ruthless man in her debt. Who knew that after one battle, she'd become a rising star in metallurgy, with offers coming from every direction? But this also draws her into an even more vicious mire of political scheming.
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