Name : Swords and Love 沉鱼记 Raw Link: https://www.xbiquge.so/book/23727/ Why It Should Get Picked Up: This is gonna be adapted as a drama This looks like a great and intense story of love, plots. Moreover, I think that the fact that this happens in a real period of history makes it really interesting. Moreover, it's a part of China's history that's very interesting Description : (i translated this myself so this may be sloppy) Qing Qing, a girl from the Yue kingdom, breaks into the Wu Palace to retrieve her father's belongings. Jianlu steals the sword, shocking the whole palace. Qing Qing then met Sun Wu's descendants, also met again her long lost acquaintance from the Yue kingdom Xi Shi*, accidentally got involved in the open and secret struggle between the states of Wu and Yue and became an accomplice of murdering the great Sun Wu. Qing Qing inherited a secret technique from a great dying soldier, returned to the country of Yue, but became the target of the countries trying to get her or assassinate her. To respect her father's last wish, Qing Qing, convinced by Fan Li**, began to teach swordsmanship to warriors from the Yue Kingdom. However, with a soldier's accidental death, another secret was hidden... Gou Jian*** has been working hard for ten years, how can he train the swordsman? Three thousand Yue warrors broke in Gusu? How many tricks are there? Before the masters and a hundred schools of thought, in the last Spring and Autumn Period, how many conspiracies were constantly being staged in one hundred and twenty-six cities in ten countries. *Xi Shi was, according to legends, one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was discovered by the Yue minister Fan Li and given to King Fuchai of Wu by King Goujian of Yue in a sexpionage operation which successfully brought down the State of Wu in 473 BC. **Fan Li, from the Spring and Autumn period, was an ancient Chinese military strategist, politician, and businessman. Fàn Li was an important political and military advisor to Goujian, the king of Yue. ***Gou Jiang was the king of the Kingdom of Yue near the end of the Spring and Autumn period. He was the son of King Yunchang.