When they first met, Luo Xun took one look at him and snapped, "Why are you sending another pretty-faced troublemaker to me?!"
His subordinate reminded him, "Your Highness, this is Yuan Yi, second son of the Marquis of Huanjin. He's peerless in both looks and talent, and the foremost young nobleman in the capital!"
Luo Xun scoffed. "The foremost young nobleman? Hah. Can he go without food? Can he fight? Can he ride a horse, wield a blade, and charge into battle?"
His subordinate: "Then... should we have him..."
Luo Xun: "Send him to the stables!"
His subordinate: "To feed the horses?"
Luo Xun: "To shovel manure!"
Later, Luo Xun says, "Strategist, please, have the seat of honor! Have you no sense? It's freezing out, and the strategist is a scholar. What if he catches cold? Someone, move the strategist's bed into my tent. It's warmer in there."
His subordinate: "..."
Yuan Yi is exiled to the frontier because of his eldest brother, and ends up in the army of the nineteenth prince, Luo Xun, the least favored prince and the least likely to inherit the throne.
The downside: Although Luo Xun is a prince, he left the capital at fourteen to lead troops. His mother's family is foreign, he has no backing at court, and no one has even heard of him. Yuan Yi can't help looking down on him.
The upside: As a general, Luo Xun is a rising star among the frontier forces and a victorious commander with military power in his hands and great authority in his fief.
Yuan Yi quietly weighs his options and tests him time and again. He finds no ambition to exploit, but sees a rare sincerity instead.
Could this man be a worthy lord, someone fit to bear great responsibility?
Sunny, doglike general gong x scheming beauty strategist shou, two comrades who begin by loathing each other and then advance side by side.
Theme: If you treat me as a man of great worth, I will repay you as one
