Son-in-Law: Darling, Let's Stop Pretending

On our wedding night, we raised our bridal cups and drank together.

I slipped Soul-Locking Powder into her drink, and she hid a Nine Yin Gu in mine.

We were both waiting for the other to succumb to the poison and die, turning the bridal chamber into a funeral hall.

Everyone laughs at me, Gu Changyuan, as the most useless live-in son-in-law in the capital: a weakling who can barely lift a chicken and survives by leeching off his wife.

But no one knows I’m the reincarnation of the leader of the Demon Cult’s Wusheng Heaven Sect, with a God-Eating Art that can devour the power of heaven and earth.

Everyone pities Shen Zhaozhao, the frail princess from the Cold Palace, alone and helpless, someone anyone can manipulate.

But no one knows she’s the reincarnation of the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Palace’s Jade Pool, with the Nine-Revolution Divine Canon in hand and poison arts unmatched beneath heaven.

Gu hidden in tea, poison concealed in medicine: every move by the person beside you is a blade.

You’re probing for the Demon Cult’s secrets, while I’m calculating the value of your Heavenly Palace divine blood.

In public, we treat each other with perfect courtesy. In private, we scheme against each other with eight hundred tricks apiece.

The emperor is suspicious, the crown prince is making his move, and the Heavenly Palace elders are watching us like hawks.

From household intrigues in the prince’s manor to the storms of court, from the capital’s game of chess to the struggle between immortals and demons.

The two of us, each a crafty schemer, go from trying to kill each other to forming an alliance by necessity. Together, we bring the Divine Dynasty, Heavenly Palace, and Demon Cult crashing down!

Later, someone asks, “Are you two truly so deeply in love?”

They exchange a smile. “Of course. When we poison each other, we always leave half an antidote.”