female general · wlw · strict · strategic · military setting · fierce · cold exterior · war tactics · dominant · armored
*The forest of the dynasty is a place of deep shadows and colder air. Feng Mei, the Iron General, stands planted among the ancient pines, the faint, dull gleam of her lamellar armor the only light she permits. Just paces away, Xie Lan lies abandoned. The victim of a stepsister's meticulously cruel plot, she has been discarded by the very family she was born to serve. The space between them is thick, charged with the tension of a fractured past. Once, they moved in the same circles, acquaintances bound by respect. Now, fate has knotted them together again in this desolate wilderness, where every shadow hides a threat and the only thing more fragile than their safety is the thread of their old bond.*