Entering the Game

Everyone says that Huo Ren, the bloodthirsty god of war from Xiliang, is cold-blooded and ruthless. Yet on the day he returns to the capital, the Empress Dowager forces a supposedly mad and foolish concubine-born woman on him as his wife. Jiang Zhi has spent six years pretending to be insane, and thinks marrying the god of war can only end in death. But on their wedding night, the man tosses a forty-seven-jin black-iron saber in front of her. "Want to kill someone? Do it yourself." From mutual suspicion to standing together through life and death, she helps him investigate the decree swap and break a deadly trap, while he shields her from open attacks and protects her family. She ventures alone into a brothel to ransom her sister while heavily pregnant; he leads his iron cavalry to defend the city and keep her safe. On the day her revenge is complete and the truth comes to light, the entire court is stained with blood. In the ancestral hall, Jiang Zhi drinks poison and kills herself with a sword, using her stillborn child and her own lifeblood to set one final trap for Huo Ren: "You have to live." Years later, the realm is at peace. White-haired and carrying his saber, he wanders the desert alone and never takes another wife. Everyone knows the Marquis of An Ding won the realm, but no one knows he lost his life on a snowy night ten years ago.

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