She was Sample Zero, injected with "divine blood" in a laboratory. One bullet to the head, and her blood splattered across the glass chamber.
When she opened her eyes again, she had become the foolish only daughter of the Great Xia Dynasty's "Protector General": born with blocked meridians, drooling constantly, and abandoned at a deserted temple for fifteen years, all so her family could trade her into a "good-luck marriage" once she came of age.
On the eve of her wedding, the bridal sedan arrived, and danger lurked everywhere.
She threw off her veil, snapped a eunuch's neck, and stepped barefoot through the snow, lantern in hand:
"Want to make me a pawn? Ask this blade of mine first."
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He was the chief envoy of the Directorate of Astrology, a refined gentleman by day and, by night, a man in black armor wielding a demon-slaying blade to quell the evil spirits of the Nine Provinces.
No one knew that he was the last descendant of the "Xuan Yuan Dragon Clan," exterminated a century ago. Born without a heart, he went mad for her at first sight.
"I want her."
From then on, he made armor from dragon scales and stairs from blood and bone. He accompanied her as she slew demons, razed cities, and killed emperors, enduring a rain of blood all the way, just to send her to the highest heavenly throne.
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She entered the game in a mortal body, wielding scientific toxicology as her blade and the blood of a reborn phoenix as her shield.
He offered his dragon horns as a betrothal gift, the mountains and rivers as matchmakers, and the world as her dowry.
When the imperial city crumbled and ten thousand demons paid homage, she wore a dragon-scale wedding gown and ascended the throne by way of a dragon staircase.
Turning back, she held out her hand: "Xiao Yu, I offer you the empire as my betrothal gift. Will you marry me?"
He knelt on one knee and presented his final dragon-horn seal:
"A Zhi, I've been yours all along."
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This is a conspiracy between mortals and deities:
She wields fire; he wields a sword.
She sets the heavens ablaze; he paves her way.
She saves the world through tribulation; he saves her with his life.
Scientific Toxicology x Ancient Dragon God
