Synopsis
Xiao Shan is a prince with a reputation for being useless — the sort whose very existence gives his emperor father a headache. All he wants out of life is to drift along in peace, causing no trouble, doing nothing. A proper salted fish. Then his father goes and marries him off to Xie Zhui, a ger who spent years living among men in the army. Xie Zhui took his brother's spot as a soldier at fourteen. By sixteen he had held the line against enemy forces at the northern border and earned real military merit. At eighteen, after a…














