[A sweet-faced but ruthless, unhinged powerbroker x a gentle beauty with a knife beneath her smile]
“Have you been hiding the marriage contract for three years just so you could kill your husband tonight?”
He grips my waist and pins me against the imperial throne. His hand, stricken by cold poison, is bleeding, yet he smiles as he winds my bloodstained hair around his throat.
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Reborn, I return to a world where everyone laughs at me for choosing the sickly good-for-nothing who is the most useless man in the capital.
But they don’t know that on our wedding night, by the warm glow of the red candles, Xiao Jingheng, the man rumored to have died coughing blood, will hold me captive on his lap and crush an assassin’s skull with his bare hand. “Zhizhi, your taste in men is even better than your way of killing.”
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Later, blood spills across the Golden Throne Hall as the Xuanwu Gate is seized. I hold up the jade seal and expose the truth of his regicide.
Yet in front of all the civil and military officials, he carves the imperial jade seal into a magnolia hairpin and slips it into my hair. “Madam, do you know why I seized this realm? I wanted to give it to you as a wedding gift.”
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[Reader advisory]
Both leads are reborn + both are unhinged (he’s obsessive and possessive; she’s a master of seduction)
The male lead coughs every three steps and spits blood every five, but can still slaughter a city single-handedly.
The female lead appears to be a gentle healer, but can control beasts with the sound of her zither.
High-intensity scenes:
“He pins a soul-locking spike into her collarbone as he treats her in a hot spring.” “They go seven days without food on a snowy mountain, then sustain each other with a blood kiss.” “They are buried alive together in a double coffin while the officials weep at their funeral.”
To you who meet me in the future Dear readers: When you read this text, maybe we have met in the world of words. As an undiscovered creator, I write these words with trepidation and anticipation. This story has accompanied me through many days and nights from the initial inspiration to the present. Xiao Jingheng and Shen Zhiyi are like the most precious secrets in my heart. Their joys, angers, sorrows, and their love and hatred are all beating vividly in my mind. I often imagine in the dead of night that someone will read these words one day in the future. Imagine that you are worried about Xiao Jingheng's life experience, applaud Shen Zhiyi's tenacity, and are moved by their relationship. This kind of imagination is my biggest motivation to keep writing. Creating is a lonely process, but sharing stories is the warmest encounter. Although there are no readers yet, I believe that one day, someone will be willing to enter this world and experience the joys and sorrows of these characters with me. If you are reading this, then you are the soulmate I am most looking forward to. Thank you for taking the time to learn about this story, and thank you for giving a silent writer a chance. I will continue to write with my heart, because I know that somewhere, there may be a reader like you waiting to encounter this story. Looking forward to meeting you in this world. ——Sincerely, An author who is trying to tell a good story
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