levels up, defends her country, unites the martial arts world, and displays her amazing martial arts skills as the greatest General in the empire. Oh, and the ML is worthy of her. He's the mysterious super strong, very quiet, Second Prince Qiu Li who grew up in the martial arts world.

I usually don't like wuxia novels, but I really like the combination of the josei+wuxia+very HE. The FL stays true to character (strong, chivalrous, filial, just, shameless, wild and true to her self, her family and her country) while also showing character development. With one exception, all the good people live, and she has a very happy ending. Unlike the famous saying, in this novel, the heroes have a good ending.

systemic s***** child ab*se by the Japanese ronin/masterless sumarai/Japanese pirates. You can easily skip that part of the story. It starts when she visits the ronin island, and ends a few chapters after. There is no other gendered violence in the story, not even during a long war or foreign occupation. The ronin were already hateful enough for stealing food and people, so it seemed jarring and really unnecessary to add that part into the plot, as if the author just threw in some extreme nationalistic anti-japanese sentiment for the heck of it.