Young warrioress Qie Xi pledges her allegiance to the infamous warlord Cao Cao after a crippling defeat at Guandu. She desired to be a general under a kind man such as Liu Bei one day, but instead got a coldhearted lord- or so everyone saw of him. Perhaps Cao Cao wasn't the devil China saw him to be, but serving under him still wouldn't be the dream she had wanted. Somepairing?xoc