Mo Xie, a girl from the mountains, is sixteen years old, orphaned, and raised by her master. She spent more than a decade living with him deep in the mountains, knowing nothing of social customs, yet possessing an extraordinary gift for martial arts.
Her peaceful life is shattered by terrible news: her master has a terminal illness and less than a year to live. No medicine can cure him, so Mo Xie sets her sights on stealing the Emperor's medicine.
Stealing the Emperor's medicine is a crime that brings punishment to one's entire clan. Mo Xie thinks it over:
She has no clan and is all alone. With her abilities, it shouldn't be a problem.
With her mind made up, she disguises herself as a man, slings a bamboo pole over her shoulder, brings her junior brother along, and heads down the mountain. On the way, she happens to rescue a prince.
When she meets an old acquaintance, she smiles brightly. "You're the imperial medicine official? Perfect, perfect. Let's go together. We're headed the same way."
An official and a bandit traveling together, working hand in glove to pull off a scheme right under everyone's noses? Li Li, the medicine official, is stunned by the shameless bandit.
Li Li, Prince of Yongning, was born with an iron constitution. His father and elder brothers all died, leaving him alone to grow wild in the world like a weed.
Those hoping he'd die could circle the palace walls three times, but he refused to give them what they wanted. Yongning, forever peaceful? He would never let it be. The son of the deposed crown prince swore that those who broke their promises would pay in blood.
But as the realm fell into turmoil, the temptation of reaching the pinnacle of power could not compare to...
A note:
A peerless swordswoman disguised as a man x a stoic, warm-hearted, resilient prince
This is a story about a chaotic girl who carves out her seven apertures and grows into herself. The heroine has no clear sense of good and evil at first, but grows along the way. The leads weather storms together and save each other. Set in the early Tang dynasty, with the Silk Road stretching westward. Historical accuracy is not the focus.
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Theme: Grow through adversity. The hardships that cannot break me can only make me more resilient
