Two Hearts Entwined

After his mother hanged herself and left the palace, and his elder sister was violated and died, Yuchi Yujue, prince of the Feather Realm, was branded a harbinger of disaster and sent as a hostage to the Water Realm. In those dark, hopeless days, Qin Ruozhi, the illegitimate daughter of a military family in the Water Realm, gave him the only warmth he knew. In truth, Qin Ruozhi was also a pawn of her father, the source of spiritual power for his cultivation of the Cangqiong Art, and the one destined to bear the blame. They understood and cherished one another, becoming each other's salvation. While trapped in an illusion, they were afflicted with the love-curse known as Two Hearts Bound. Yuchi Yujue bore its venom alone, paying with his primordial spirit. When the Feather Realm and Water Realm went to war, he forged her life-bound magical weapon in the Desolate Abyss. Qin Ruozhi knew none of this. From her perspective, she was simply nursing a one-sided love, so when others drove a wedge between them, she mistakenly believed Yuchi Yujue had joined forces with the royal family to destroy the Water Realm. After escaping by changing her face and enduring the torment of countless ghosts devouring her, she received unexpected help from Tan Qinqi and took her deceased twin sister's place, traveling to the Feather Realm to marry for political alliance. She plotted at every turn and overturned the Feather Realm's imperial rule. Yuchi Yujue traded his lifelong cultivation for Qin Ruozhi's undying body, stayed with her to watch the sights of Illusion Love City one last time, and went with her to make a wish beneath the Old Man of the Moon's tree. Then he died peacefully beneath the moonlight...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.