Thirteenth Lady, Cavalry Officer of the Guiyi Army

Thirteen Niang was born in Shazhou during the Tang Dynasty, with a bold and handsome appearance.

She was a slave rider with neither a surname nor an identity.

She struggled to survive in hell, keeping up appearances and playing along, all for the chance to reclaim her homeland and return east to the Tang Dynasty.

Shazhou had fallen sixty-eight years ago. In the Western Regions, there were no fine Han clothes or Chinese speech, only braided hair, ochre-painted faces, and Tibetan fur coats.

A poem says: "The Han have all taken to speaking like barbarians, yet they curse the Han from atop the city walls."

Though Thirteen Niang was a woman, she truly possessed the mettle of a man.

Along the way, she encountered enemy nations, comrades-in-arms, mentors, elders, and the one she loved.

After countless trials, Thirteen Niang finally became a cavalry lieutenant in the Right Wing of the Guiyi Army.

Yet the lonely youth died, her comrades fell, her mentor was brought low, and her beloved drifted away. Only her great cause sustained her beautiful, battered body.

The road was too long. She was too tired.

At last, she saw Chang'an.

But she might not make it there.