A Blade Startles Spring 一刀驚春 by Chen Xiao Zhi 沉筱之
A Blade Startles Spring
Popular author Chen Xiao Zhi's bestselling martial arts epic. Follow Tang Ah-fei, who knows nothing of the perils of the martial world, as she crosses paths with hero Jiang, who doesn't even know how to write a love letter. Is there any chance these two can grow old together? Plus, the most worthwhile exclusive and touching side story can only be found at Miaomiaowu!
That year, Tang Fei's tinder box sparked a massive fire, burning down more than half of Jiang Zhanyi's kitchen; he ripped her bodice, and she fed her a strange poison. At six years old, she was no childhood sweetheart, and at seven, he was no childhood friend—it was a mutual defeat. Years later, Tang Fei was expelled from the Tang Sect with nowhere to call home. Jiang Zhanyi accepted a hundred taels to lead a disheveled and disgraced Tang Fei back to his estate. He accompanied her into town to buy "feminine items," leaving an otherwise dashing and heroic young man thoroughly embarrassed. She wanted to look pretty and recklessly pierced her own ears with an iron needle, and an exasperated he carried her down the mountain to find a doctor. She was in debt without a single silver coin, and the dignified Master Jiang turned into a spendthrift youth, thinking to himself that he must have owed her in a past life! An unmarried seventeen-year-old maiden possessed a natural greenness that tugged at the heartstrings. On the night she was drunk, when Jiang Zhanyi asked her to wait for him, Tang Fei tugged at him and rambled that she would wait six months at most. If he was still dragging his feet by next spring, she would force him to marry her.
Unfortunately, before the half-year pact had passed, Jiang Zhanyi cruelly slashed apart their bonds with a single blade. Looking at a crying, red-eyed, and aggrieved Tang Fei, he only murmured expressionlessly, "Go..."
