The Phoenix Hairpin: He Torments Her, He Protects Her, and Everyone's Gone Mad

Name: The Phoenix Hairpin: He Torments Her, He Protects Her, and Everyone's Gone Mad
Author: Blood Cocoon Dreamweaver

锁凤钗，他虐，他护，全员疯批

by Blood Cocoon Dreamweaver (血茧筑梦者)

Status: Completed
Length: 362k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 6mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

The kingdom falls, and its mountains and rivers are laid to waste.

A princess of noble birth falls into the hands of her enemy.

Aphrodisiacs burn through her bones and consume her body.

Her cool, proud spirit crumbles, lost in a moment of surrender.

He razed her homeland,

yet he was the one who had obsessed over her for ten years.

She hates him enough to want them both dead,

but her body has long instinctively clung to his cool, pure presence.

His heart holds another woman,

yet he marries a gentle beauty who waited eight years for him.

On their wedding night, beneath the red wedding candles,

drunk and confused, he mistakes his new bride for the woman from his past.

He imprisons her by force and indulges in her,

crushing her true feelings and reducing her to the most wretched substitute.

When he sobers up, regret overwhelms him.

He owes one woman a love that runs deep, and has failed another who gave him her whole life.

The beauty's heart dies, and she falls into a blizzard,

leaving him to rule an empire, alone and with nowhere to go for the rest of his life.

A letter entrusting someone with a child binds them for the rest of their lives.

A lifetime of grudges and gratitude is entrusted to a confidant who shares her fate.

A single love-binding parasitic Gu

locks two generations into a shared destiny, so that life and death can never part them.

Someone gives up an empire stretching ten thousand miles,

just to quietly keep her safe and peaceful year after year.

The love and hatred of the past gnaw at the heart, impossible to resolve.

The Gu-bound fate of the next life entangles them, impossible to escape.

Stats

81Chapters

664Reads · 30 days

91.9kReads · all time

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