After Disguising Myself as a Man and Switching Lives with My Twin Brother

The fraternal twins of the Wen family of Qingxi have identical features and stunning looks, but unfortunately, they were born the wrong sex.

Younger sister Wen Changning wears black, ties back her hair, and is dashing and formidable, with extraordinary martial skills. The young women of Qingxi mistake her for their "dream lover." But the Three Obediences and Four Virtues forbid women from showing themselves in public, so she is forced to stay home every day, learning needlework, embroidery, and the rules for women.

Meanwhile, her older brother Wen Changkong is as delicate as Xi Shi, with a gentle, feminine air. After a few steps, he is panting like a pear blossom swaying in the wind. Yet as the eldest son, he is expected to carry on the family line, and their father is dead set on making him practice with weapons and pass the military examinations to earn distinction.

Then bandits rampage through Qingxi, and the court orders a campaign to suppress them. With no other choice, Father Wen puts the frail Wen Changkong on the conscription register.

Unwilling to let her brother go to his death, Wen Changning takes up her red-tasseled spear, disguises herself as a man, and enlists in his place. From then on, the siblings switch lives and each carves out a brilliant future of their own.

Everyone in the Great Yong Dynasty knows that the Wen family of Qingxi struck it rich, producing two prodigies in one generation.

The northern pacification marshal Wen Changning burst onto the scene, suppressing bandit unrest, building irrigation works, opening terraced fields, establishing workshops, teaching the people to improve their crops, and developing commerce.

She transformed Qingxi from a "land plagued by bandits" into "the most prosperous town in Great Yong."

She also won first place in all four rounds of the military examinations, rushed to the border's aid, secured the northern frontier, saved the dynasty from collapse, and rose to power at court, enjoying unmatched prestige.

Her brother Wen Changkong, thanks to his peerless beauty and deft ways, won the admiration of officials' children and wealthy merchants alike. He became a bona fide heartthrob, the dream man of countless men throughout the empire, and an asset to Wen Changning's "soft-power diplomacy."

People of the time all said: A young man's ambition should reach for the clouds; if you have a daughter, may she be like Wen Changning.

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[The female lead has no romance in the main story. Whether there will be romance in the extras is undecided.]