Nirvana Gu

She used a parasitic charm as her medium and her life as the price, only to hear him say, “The daughter of a criminal slave dares to dream of becoming empress?”

Yun Ci was a condemned woman with tattooed marks on her face, forced to marry the cold Emperor Xiao Jue, whose power stretched across the court.

On their wedding night, she planted her family’s secret Twin Gu: if he felt no love, she would bear all his pain for him; if he prospered, she would wither away.

Yet he treated her like a lowly insect, letting his favored consort frame her, causing her to lose her child, destroying her face, and wiping out her entire family. He even personally sent her to the execution ground!

“Xiao Jue, if there is a next life, may your heart be eaten away and your bones corroded by pain. May you suffer everything I suffered!”

At the execution ground, she set the Gu ablaze within herself. Blue flames consumed her body, leaving nothing but ashes.

But the emperor on the high platform suddenly spat blood, a searing pain striking his heart and veins.

From then on, he suffered nightmares every night. His old wounds reopened, his fortune vanished, and he began to clearly feel every bit of pain she had endured!

Like a madman, he clawed through the ashes at the execution ground, but all he found was one of her scorched earrings…

Later, the new emperor knelt in the snow, clutching his rotting heart, and pleaded in a trembling voice to the cold-eyed woman whose neck bore a dark golden mark:

“A Ci… I know I was wrong… Please come back…”

She gave a soft laugh, her lips beneath the veil sharp as a blade.

“Your Majesty, the condemned woman Yun Ci died by your hand.”

“The woman living now is someone who can take your life.”

The Twin Gu burns, and the condemned woman rises from the ashes. This time, she will ruin him and bring down his rule over the empire!