Court intrigue + fantasy + mind games + two formidable leads
A twin-born curse. Ten deadly lifetimes. He died for her nine times, yet in the tenth, she drove a dagger into his heart.
“He is the sharpest blade of the enemy kingdom, and also her medicine.”
Shuanghua, a medicine woman from Northern Yan born under an ill-starred fate, approaches the hostage prince of Southern Liang, Xiao Jin, to take revenge. But in his bloodstained robes, she finds her own baby tooth from childhood. This ruthless schemer is none other than the little mute boy she lost years ago.
“She is the most venomous curse in the history books, and also his doom.”
When an epidemic unveils the bloody truth, she learns that he has altered fate nine times to bring her back to life, and that every tear she sheds is poison that keeps him alive. She cuts out his bones, not knowing they are the only medicine that can lift the divine punishment upon her. He binds her soul, yet dares not tell her that a hundred years ago, at the Wu clan's altar, she was the priestess who personally offered him as a sacrifice.
“You want this realm to stand forever. I want you to burn with me.”
On the night the twin flowers burn away, he smiles and drinks in her poisoned kiss. “Shuanghua, it’s the tenth lifetime. You’ve finally learned to be cruel to me.” Outside the palace walls, eight hundred coffins open at once, and inside them are all...
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