[Scheming Orphan Girl × Mad General]
Orphaned by war, Miaomiao uses three drops of spiritual spring water to cling to the cold-blooded general Xiao Lin and stay alive. She treats his old wounds, and bizarre phoenix blood markings bloom in the snow. He pins her against a coffin, his hand around her throat. “Where did you steal this Ice-Silk Incense?”
Everyone says the general has gone mad: he divorces his noble wife for a stable hand and smashes his legitimate son's coffin into an altar with his own hands. But no one knows that the ice crystals she retches up every night conceal a blood edict ordering her clan's destruction, or that the old scars beneath his armor bear a phoenix totem bound to her by fate.
“Xiao Lin, when you carved out my heart meridians to heal yourself, did you ever think you might become my medicine?”
On the night of the palace coup, she vanishes as an ice butterfly. Only then does he realize that what he thought was deep love was a carefully laid trap to slay an immortal…