Original Title: 白日提灯 by Li Qing Ran
Male Lead: Chen Fei Yu
Female Lead: Dilraba Dilmurat
Total Chapters: 104
He Simu had a habit of picking up people to eat on the battlefield, but unexpectedly, she was the one who got picked up. The young general who took her in seemed to regard her as a war orphan, a fragile woman, and cared for her attentively. He Simu thus diligently played the role of a weak maiden:
“Oh my! Blood! I’m terrified of blood. I faint at the sight of it!”
“This water basin is so heavy, and my strength is so limited, I simply cannot carry it!”
“You all spend your days fighting and killing, how frightening!”
The female warrior who secretly loved the young general fumed: “Brother Duan would never like a dripping‑with‑delicacy girl like you!”
He Simu tilted her head: “Is that so?”
One day, the young general stumbled when his horse lost its footing and was ambushed. The supposedly weak He Simu—who couldn’t lift a finger and fainted at the sight of blood—loosened her muscles and joints, and lit a ghost lantern:
“Let me see who dares to bully our General Duan, little fox Duan?”
Duan Xu later reflected that he should never have provoked the Ghost King. It took him months to learn that her real name was He Simu — but perhaps in his entire lifetime, she would never remember his name during her four hundred years of existence.
“My name is Duan Xu, with the ‘Xu’ from ‘Feng Lang Ju Xu’…”
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