A Master of Political Intrigue: The Ailing Lord and the Wild King

[Sickly Strategist VS War God Prince, Beautiful but Tragic Bottom x Wolfdog Top]

Shen Zhao was the astounding top scorer in the palace exams three years ago. But after his entire family was executed, he lay low for three years, gathering clues.

Now, he returns to the capital bearing his family's coffin, risking his life to reclaim a place at court. His body is frail, but he hides a poisoned blade within.

Xiao Jingheng, the Great Qi War God, is an overbearing prince who commands three hundred thousand iron cavalry. He is the sharpest blade of imperial power, and the thorn in the Empress Dowager's side that she fears most.

He despises the convoluted schemes of civil officials, yet he has no choice but to deal with that sickly minister.

They should have been enemies.

But when the Ministry of Revenue corruption case exposes the dark secrets of the court, when the military provisions mystery threatens the border's survival, and when an assassination at the autumn hunt points straight to the Shen family's blood debt from years ago...

They realize that they are the only pieces still alive in this dead-end game.

"The civil official's calculating mind, the general's fighting spirit. In this chaotic game of power, we each hold a piece."

Shen Zhao wields his brush as a blade, calculating every move. Xiao Jingheng breaks through deadlocks with his sword, invincible wherever he goes.

From court to battlefield, from suspicion to trust, from an alliance of convenience to... the burning love of bodies pressed together.

"Ah Heng, if I die..."

"Zhaozhao, if you dare to die, this prince will slaughter everyone under heaven and make sure you find no peace on the road to the afterlife."