Bai Liyue is the most blessed holy maiden in the Moon Gu Village in a hundred years.
She has spent her life among camellias and gu medicine, keeps a black king snake as a pet, and spends her days making gu, gathering herbs, and suppressing the demons and monsters of the thirty-six Miao villages.
She thought the greatest worry of her life would be wondering when the ancient gu beast sleeping in Moon Gu Cave would wake.
That is, until she found an injured wolf by a stream in the moonlit valley.
The man knelt on the stony bank and bared the back of his neck to her, his voice hoarse. “Save me.”
Bai Liyue brought him back to her bamboo house.
Of course she knew he was pretending.
In her eighteen years, she had never met anyone else who could be bitten by a Snow Gu and not even change expression.
But she didn’t call him out.
After all, life in Miaojiang had been far too boring lately.
Qu Cang, the Wolf King of Beidi, was a top predator who had lived for more than five hundred years.
He thought he could control everything: use a frail exterior to win her trust, pose as a fugitive to lower her guard, and use five hundred years of cunning to turn her into a pawn in his plan to restore his kingdom.
There was just one thing he hadn’t counted on:
The way this eighteen-year-old Miao girl looked at him, as if he were prey that had leapt straight into a gu jar of its own accord.
