The Princess Who Wore Trousers

Li Shuyan kept her sleeves clean and her pulse steady because one wrong breath could expose everything. She entered a man-only sword school with a false name, a flat chest wrap, and a body that had to survive baths, medical checks, and power tests without giving her away. The old records already cast her as the kind of villain who dies early, but she had read ahead in her own life and chosen a different path. She treated cuts, hid tremors, and learned to smile with her teeth closed. Then the same master who shaped her also shaped another student into her opposite. One of them was taught how to face the sky. The other was taught how to watch people lie. She could not afford a single mistake, ...