The Hairpin Blade: A Woman Warrior's Wokou Fight and Vindication

The Hairpin Blade: A Woman Warrior's Wokou Fight and Vindication Plot:

Lin Zhaoxue, the only female martial artist in a fishing village, learned swordsmanship from her father since childhood but was looked down upon by the clan for being a woman. When Wokou (Japanese pirates) invaded, she fought off three pirates with her sword to protect the villagers—only to be framed as a 'traitor' by the clan elder, who claimed her late mother's silver hairpin 'looked like a Wokou knife.' Even her childhood sweetheart A Shui grabbed her sword and asked, 'Did you really betray us?' Three days later, the Wokou returned. Zhaoxue stuck the hairpin in her hair and rushed forward, shouting, 'Mom taught me to use this to stab Wokou eyes!' She fought with the hairpin as a knife. When she was stabbed in the back and on the verge of death, A Shui ran over holding the clan elder's collusion letter—she never betrayed them. That hairpin wasn't evidence of treason; it was the guardian instinct flowing in her blood, protecting the clan's lives...

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