My mother was the most powerful Gu master of her generation, and my father was a renowned assassin. Two powerful people had a completely useless child: me. I was afraid of Gu insects, and even more afraid of blood. Yet despite being a good-for-nothing, I married the regent, The Outcast, the most powerful man in the realm after the emperor. But on our wedding day, he slaughtered the Gu insects in my mother's valley and wiped out my father's entire family. It turned out he had gone to such lengths to marry me just to save his childhood sweetheart. Afterward, day after day, he took the blood from my heart, hoping to prolong the life of the woman he loved. Looking at the blood taken from my body, my gaze dimmed. There was only one thought in my mind: [Drink it,
