Political Intrigue / Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms / Subverting Expectations / Golden Finger / Married Couple / Comeback / Occult Arts / Comedy
One night of passion!
The loving wife in his arms turns out to be a fox spirit in disguise;
The bedroom door bursts apart, and his true wife returns, murderous fury in her eyes.
Li Zhi’an, the son of a military governor held hostage in Bianliang, has barely recovered from the absurd farce of “mistaking someone else for his wife” when an imperial decree arrives like an icy blade, demanding his life. The tyrant Zhu Wen intends to take his wife by force, giving him five days to comply or face the execution of his entire family!
At this desperate moment, the “Seal of Mountains and Rivers” gifted by the fox spirit becomes his only chance of survival.
This seal can reveal the flow of fortune and steal a glimpse of Heaven’s secrets.
With it, Li Zhi’an sees that Zhu Wen’s imperial fortune is strong only on the surface, that his son, Prince Ying, harbors hidden resentment, that the Khitan envoy watches like a wolf and an eagle, and that the palace eunuchs are plotting the dynasty’s downfall… Bianliang is a veritable hell crawling with thieves.
If that’s the case, then he’ll become the biggest thief of them all! He uses the fox spirit’s charms to lay a maze of deception, and his wife’s fierce nature to stage a false death, setting the wolves and tigers of every faction against one another. He dances on the edge of political intrigue and navigates traps of beauty. He steals the fortune of others to nourish his own destiny, and seizes his enemies’ power to build a foundation in the shadows.
See how a hostage in the hands of fate steals the world’s fortune, claims every beauty under heaven, and ultimately… takes the vast realm itself for his own in an age when human lives are worth no more than weeds!
Damn, the first chapter is being reviewed