This is a particularly beautiful morning day.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao has just reached adulthood.

At this time, Wang Shouren and Tang Baihu are sharpening their blades, readying for the imperial examination.

At this time, the cold winds have descended and a long winter ravages the land.

At this time, within Count Nanhe’s mansion, the master’s intellectually disabled son, Fang Jifan, his heir…. begins his shameless, recalcitrant journey to prodigality.

Even worse, this is a world where the weak are the prey of the strong, conceited antagonists.

So, before it’s late, I need to learn martial arts and escape!

However, there was a fatal flaw in my plan…

Because of my notorious father, there were too many people who sought to end my life.

“Wahhh! Dadda! (Daddy!)”

…Will I ever be able to escape safely?

This is a story about the happenings that occur at the tea parties attended by:

Miriam, the young daughter of a marquess whose days are full of woe as she’s surrounded by a family that is too beautiful – with the exception of herself – and

The 3 Grand Witches

(with the First Prince occasionally showing up as well).  

The general is a very irresponsible and violent man. He doesn’t really get attached to women, just letting his lust dictate his actions. His wife is a jealous woman, who killed one of his previous concubines because he doted on her too much. She similarly wants to get rid of Yu Linglong, in part to vent her frustrations over her husband’s cheating habits.

Because the sixth miss – the general’s legitimate daughter, was bitten by a snake, she needs detoxification. The cure was apparently getting poisoned by scorpions, to fight one poison with another. But since she’s already weak, they decided it would be better if she drank the blood of someone poisoned by scorpions instead. The general’s madam naturally decided to use Yu Linglong’s blood. During the process of getting bitten by the scorpion, the original timid Yu Linglong died of fright (and maybe poison? it’s never made clear). Then Yu Mei takes over her body.

Yu Mei is a modern woman. She was some mafia boss, so she’s very capable of fighting and overbearing attitude. She died because the man she fell in love with betrayed her and killed her. So she doesn’t trust easily afterward.

Since she took over Yu Linglong’s body, she refuses to adapt to the circumstances of a lowly illegitimate daughter and uses her violence to fight for a peaceful life, where no one will challenge her and plot against her. Basically, she beats them up into submission. In the meantime, she acquires a tail – a very persistent prince, who only seems to stick to her harder, the colder she treats him. Did ancient men have such heavy tastes, she wonders?

To end the horrible war, numerous heroes had sacrificed their lives and disappeared on the battlefield.

This is the story of a man that longed to be a hero and the story of his brilliant rise to the top.

***

Joo Seo-Cheon is a man who luckily survives the Warring Era and becomes the Hwasan sect’s elder, only to live a life full of regrets and doubts.

He lays on his deathbed waiting for the inevitable when he is returned to the past…