Legend has it that a thousand years ago, the small kingdom of Anli, tucked away in the southeastern corner of the world, enshrined a rare spiritual jade called the “Gouyu” as its national treasure. Thanks to it, the kingdom enjoyed centuries of peace amid the flames of war that consumed the world. But in the late Tang Dynasty, a mighty general led his troops south, the Gouyu was stolen, and the kingdom fell.
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Luo Qinghe thought she had been cast as the heroine of a tragic romance: her beloved of six years killed her father, seized her family fortune, and ruined her family; her cherished younger sister betrayed her and secretly slept with her fiancé; her ancestors’ curse meant she would not live to see the end of the year. With nowhere left to turn, she fled the home that had once sheltered her, like a drenched, beaten dog.
She fought and schemed every step of the way, forced to grow from a caged canary into an eagle soaring above the heavens.
Her fiancé betrayed her? No problem. She turned the tables and crushed him beneath her feet, reducing years of painstaking effort to nothing. Seeing him grovel at her feet was deeply satisfying.
Her younger sister betrayed her? No problem. Wait, she now understood that her sister had always protected her in her own way and had never betrayed her at all.
The curse is impossible to break? No problem. She has never believed in fate. She’ll meet each challenge as it comes, and brave every danger in search of the Gouyu that can undo the curse.
Along the way, she also picked up a boyfriend whose family owns a mine.
The male protagonist starts a single-line copy (doge)