The Yang Clan: New Snow

Upcoming: The Military Governor Has a Hidden Affliction

Adorable young female spy x cunning general

The thing Tang Fei regretted most in her life was witnessing Yang Yunze's spectacular public act of self-sabotage at the Autumn Harvest Banquet. The man known as "Yang the Second Cur" was the Military Governor of Suiwu. He flirted with noblewomen and lost to a dancer, until even the emperor shook his head and declared, "The Yang family is finished!"

But she had seen him kick an assassin's ribs in half during an ambush in the maple forest. Then he looked up and smiled at her. "I know a little kung fu, Lord Tang. How was my acting?"

Later, she went north with the army. He took an arrow for her, rode with her through snowy nights, and even dared to drag her into a bandit lair to perform a wedding ceremony.

Until the emperor bestowed her hand on another man. She touched her pregnant belly. "Yang Yunze, if you keep pretending, you'll lose your wife and child!"

Everyone in the Suiwu Army knew that the picture hanging in the military governor's study wasn't a map, but a portrait his wife had painted for him.

Yang Yunze: "My wife says today is auspicious for revealing my true self, snatching a bride, and changing the dynasty."

[A scheming military governor pretending to be useless x an engineering-minded female official. His playboy act is fake, but his love-struck nature is real.]

Content warning:

Not a strong female lead. A serious historical drama.

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Everyone said the Yang family's fortunes had run out, until they discovered that the rumored little cur was actually a wolf king.

In the fourth year of Yuanshou in the Great Zhou dynasty, years of drought drove masses of refugees to gather outside the capital, Yejing. Emperor Li Xi summoned the military governors of the various territories to the capital to discuss how to resettle them.

He was the second son of Yang Zaiyuan, Duke of Ying. After his elder brother was framed and killed by a villain, he succeeded him as Military Governor of Suiwu. His playboy reputation was famous far and wide. The people of the capital called him Yang the Second Cur. At the Autumn Harvest Banquet, in front of the emperor and all his officials, the commander of an army was knocked down by a woman wielding a wooden sword.

She was the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor, but had withdrawn to a separate residence because of family discord. She knew nothing of a young lady's etiquette, yet was an expert in astronomy and mathematics. After passing the female officials' examination, she took up the post of Assistant Director of the Astronomical Observatory. On the day of the Autumn Harvest Banquet, as her half sister framed her, a falling star streaked across the sky above her head...

Deep in the maple forest, she discovered his secret. From then on, fate bound them tightly together.

The cries of insects and arrows raining down in Chongque Valley, the snow-laden pines and bitter cold of Mount Yu, the reeds and blood of the Goddess Oasis, the warm sunshine and starry skies of Apricot Blossom Island: all bore witness to their love that crossed the boundary between life and death.

When the vow they made to each other on the banks of the Longshui River was finally crushed beneath the treacherous schemes of the imperial court,

with family and country, ruler and subject, common people and imperial power at stake, how would they choose in a time of turmoil?

A love warm as winter sunshine, passionate as a blazing fire, and rich as mellow wine became the most beautiful verses in this chaotic age.

When the blade that would abolish the regional fiefs fell and foreign cavalry trampled across the border, where would his bloodied blade and her star chart ultimately lead?

(Not a strong female lead, not a power fantasy, slow burn, full manuscript completed.)

Theme: Love of family and country