We Agreed to Be a Couple, but the Mad Eunuch Is Serious About It

[Dark historical romance + unhinged prison governor + a contractual companion-wife arrangement + a heart-corrupting, myriad-poison Gu technique + clear-eyed revenge + coercive possession]

“Born in Medicine King Valley, your blood exists to save your elder sister!”

Ten years of being drained of blood in service to her sister earned her nothing but a place in a mass grave for the living.

Jiang Nanzhi did not want to die.

So, on a night of torrential rain, covered in blood, she climbed into the carriage of the one man under heaven she should never have provoked: Xie Xuanji, the Eastern Depot's Grand Commandant, known as the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old.

“Lord Commander, let me be your companion-wife for three years. I’ll keep that little imperial grandson alive, and you’ll keep me alive.”

The sinister man toyed with the Buddhist prayer beads around his wrist and regarded her casually, as if appraising a useful tool.

“Deal.”

She had thought it would be a cold wager.

At the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old's residence, she wielded her medical skills to devastating effect, used poison to turn the court upside down, and even personally burned the man-eating Medicine King Valley to the ground.

She thought she had won.

But when their three-year term ended and she asked for the divorce papers

The contract was torn to shreds.

The man who killed without blinking backed her into a corner. His icy fingertips lifted her chin, and madness that could not be contained even in hell surged in his eyes.

“Nanzhi, you fed this evil ghost with your own hands. And now you want to leave?”

“In this lifetime, even if you die, you can only die in my bed.”