"Do you have no feelings for me at all? Do you see me as nothing but a baby-making tool?" Lu Lingchuan demanded, unwilling to accept it.
Lan Qingdai was the most beautiful doctor in the marriage-walking tribe of Yueqi Village in the southwest. At eighteen, she still refused to enter a marriage. Her two older brothers were so anxious that they scoured the entire village for men, but she wasn't interested in a single one. "The man I want must be talented and handsome, accomplished in both letters and arms, and upright in character."
Then one day, a blood-soaked man fell from the sky and crashed into her courtyard.
She saved him, never knowing that her rescue would begin a fated entanglement bound by a love gu. Her second brother secretly planted a mutual-heart gu to bring them together. The only way to remove it was to share a bed forty-nine times. His name was Lu Lingchuan. When lucid, he spoke coldly and called her a shameless seductress who had tempted him. When the gu took hold, he pulled her into his arms and kept her with him until dawn. She became pregnant and gave birth to twins, believing they would go on living this way.
Until he accidentally overheard the truth: all that affection had been caused by the gu.
Lu Lingchuan fled to the capital with the children in the middle of the night, reclaiming his identity as the heir to the Duke's estate. Lan Qingdai chased him for a thousand miles and sneaked into the estate, where he locked her in a courtyard and took her to bed night after night, using her as an antidote.
He thought she was cold and heartless, while she thought he hated her to the core. Neither knew that the mutual-heart gu had already bound their hearts together.
He was overjoyed, believing she was willing to stay for him, but he had no idea that she was counting how many times remained before the gu could be fully removed: just over twenty. Once it was gone, she planned to take the children back to her village.
When the gu is finally removed, where will the two of them go from there?
