Ask The Lord / The First Marquis 问君侯 / 第一侯 by 希行 Xi Xing

Li Minglou, who died tragically and was reborn ten years in the past, did not feel the joy of avenging her enemies or righting her wrongs. To be human, she first had to be a ghost.

On the eighteenth day of the sixth month of the third year of Chengyuan in the Great Xia dynasty, the celestial dog swallowed the sun. In an instant, the world was plunged into darkness. Fortunately, Xiàtún County had prepared early. Officials and commoners moved together, beating gongs and drums in a frantic clamor, which scared the celestial dog away. Even so, no one felt safe, and for three days straight, people gathered in the streets day and night.

Although the celestial dog was scared off, more strange incidents began to be rumored. A brave commoner, who had been taking shelter on the street, was persuaded by a few idle men to go home and sleep. But as he walked alone to the alley leading to his door, he encountered a group of strange people…

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On her way to get married, Li Ming Lou, a young lady from Jiannan Road, dreamed that ten years later, she and her family would be killed by her husband’s family for treason. After waking and finding that reality was slowly coinciding with her dream, she decided to fight for a way out, for herself and her family. This dream was a warning, but also a chain.

Li Ming Lou suffered from a skin disease and had to suffer the pain of being unable to walk normally in the sun. In order to survive, Li Ming Lou had to walk the road of her dreams. On the way to being married against her will, she rescued the crazy and blind mother of Wu Ya Er, a general of the Zhenwu Army, and pretended to be Wu Ya Er’s dead fiancée to escape and hide.

In the process, she realized that as long as she wasn’t Li Ming Lou, she didn’t have to suffer any pain. Therefore, she took advantage of the situation and used her identity as Wu Ya Er’s fiancée to recruit soldiers and buy horses, to prepare for the troubled times that were about to come. Because of his mother, Wu Ya Er had to submit to her. Both wanted to annex each other’s troupes but were forced to cooperate. This is how the story begins…

(Translated by Vico SDL)

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