The General's Legitimate Daughter: A Beauty's Schemes

In the early spring of the seventeenth year of Emperor Wuzhao's reign, every member of the Zhan family died on the battlefield. Treacherous men sent a message claiming that the Zhan family had lost five cities through treason and had been executed. At the same time, Empress Zhan was falsely accused of poisoning the Consort's son. Emperor Wuzhao stripped her of her title and threw her into the imperial prison, then personally led an expedition to Yong City. One hundred thousand soldiers of Nan Jin faced three hundred thousand warriors of Bei Yan. Corpses soon covered the land, and crows settled on every bare branch.

In the deepest winter of the seventeenth year of Wuzhao's reign, the emperor suffered a crushing defeat and was surrounded in Yong City. A small group escorted him away, but just as they reached a dead end, the deposed empress appeared. Riding a warhorse and wielding a red-tasseled spear, she arrived covered in blood. She finally gave her life to protect him. With nowhere left to retreat, he fell with the deposed empress into a deep ravine. But when he opened his eyes, he found himself asleep at his desk in a classroom at the Imperial College. He had been reborn. He had once set his sights on a lovely young woman, but her family's fortunes refused to go his way. Since they wouldn't, he might as well move the whole family onto his own estate!