A Thousand Years of Song

In her travels through the martial world, Xie Zhao had engaged in all sorts of shady dealings. She never hesitated to cause trouble and never considered the consequences. Fortunately, Ling Huo and Han Changsheng always cleaned up her messes.

Whenever Han Changsheng was furious enough to stamp his feet and point at her in exasperation, he would say:

“Xie Zhao, don’t be so outrageous! At least act like a proper young lady!”

Xie Zhao would always narrow her eyes with a half-serious, half-joking smile. It was impossible to tell whether she was pretending to be foolish or was truly drunk.

“What is a young lady supposed to be like? You don’t know the first thing about it! I was once the most dignified young lady in all of Zhaoge City!”

She held her chin high, as though reminiscing about the glorious days of her youth.

Ling Huo stared expressionlessly at the drunken cat before him, his face a picture of speechless exasperation and hesitant words.

“...There’s no need to take it quite that far.”

Exasperated, Xie Zhao decided that this time she would give them both the cold shoulder for two whole days!

It might terrify those two country bumpkins to hear this, but she had once been both a princess and a sword immortal!!

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[Poem Synopsis]: (The novel's volume titles all come from this poem.)

The frost has melted from the capital, yet the divine tower sighs; on Kunling Mountain, a broken blade unleashes sword force.

I spur my horse across the four realms, pursuing the path of my life, never betraying my mad reputation as I come and go.

Mountains and rivers, sun and moon, rise and fall; how many noble spirits lie buried among the flowers?

A young traveler rides through the martial world, meeting kindred souls to drink together beneath the gleaming snow.

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[One-Sentence Synopsis]: A female-led martial arts story with no romantic pairing, where “immortal” is an honorific for the pinnacle of martial achievement, not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy.

In a century of chaos marked by power struggles over the territories of the four realms, turmoil and infighting at court, and unpredictable conflicts in the martial world, young men and women each carry their own secrets and meet when they are lost and at their lowest. They watch over and support one another, while also redeeming each other.

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