The Young Lady Is a Little Quirky

When they first met, he said, “The daughter of a mere centurion, living under someone else's roof? What kind of status is that? I won't marry her!”

After seeing her once, he recited with a knowing smile, “The ospreys call by the river isle. A graceful maiden is a gentleman's desire.”

When she arrived with her maid and marriage contract in hand, he lounged by the window, smiling broadly. “So eager to have me marry you?”

When he learned she had come to break off the engagement, his smile froze and his face darkened. His gloomy, bloodshot gaze seemed ready to spill blood as he demanded, “Who gave you the nerve to break off your engagement to me?”

The only daughter of a military officer, she was sent to live in the capital alone, treading as carefully as if on thin ice.

Once she came of age, she was trapped in a plot to force her into marriage and nearly made a concubine.

She had hoped to reunite with her family on her coming-of-age day. Instead, treacherous enemies framed them, and the entire family was thrown into prison. Not one of the more than 180 members of the Yuan family survived.

To avenge her family, she became an assassin, brought down three kingdoms, and beheaded the mastermind behind their deaths.

But with her family destroyed, she ultimately took her own life and died in a sea of flames.

Reborn, she turns the tide!

She laughs and jokes, feigning innocence.

She takes on the favored consort, thrashes princes, kicks the scheming ingénue, and berates the emperor!

Ruthless and vicious, with not a shred of virtue!

She saves a fallen power broker, wins over the enemy kingdom before anyone else can, amasses a fortune, and builds an army of a million.

When she leads her troops to the gates of the capital, the emperor finally panics.

“It's yours! The fifteen cities of Zhangzhou, old Yanjing in the South Sea, all of it! Just withdraw your troops!”

Seated on her horse, she sneers at the emperor cowering behind his throne.

“Your Majesty, I advise you to be sensible. It's time to give up the throne!”