After Exposing Each Other’s Secret Identities with the Sickly Beauty

Cool, sharp-tongued heroine × sickly, sweet-faced male lead who pretends to be dim-witted ## Yuan Xiangxiang considers herself a very emotionally stable person. Whether she was abused as a blood slave in childhood, stripped naked and humiliated, or forced to eat revolting human flesh to stay alive, she remained perfectly stable and never made a sound. That stability lasted until she picked up a man by the roadside and brought him home. He was sickly, delicate, and frail, pitifully weak in every respect. Holding out the blood he had just coughed up, he said to her, “Miss, save me! I have no way to repay you, so please drink this bowl of fresh Guanyin blood! It guarantees eternal life!” Yuan Xiangxiang frowned. For the first time, she couldn’t keep her composure. For some reason, that beautiful man kept clinging to her. She knew she had neither money nor looks... He may have been useless, but he was gorgeous! Gentle-tempered! And incredibly smooth-talking! “Miss Xiangxiang, your eyes are truly beautiful!” “I promise you’ll see the person you’ve been longing for, Miss Xiangxiang!” “Wherever you go, Miss Xiangxiang, I’ll go too! Even to hell itself!” “I’ll stay by your side forever.” Yuan Xiangxiang admitted she was inexperienced. Just like that, she embarrassingly developed a cheap little crush on him. But who could have guessed that the delicate beauty thought she disliked men? He put on women’s clothes, curled up against her shoulder, and wept. “Xiangxiang, I know you don’t like ordinary men, so... if I wear a skirt, will you like me?” ## Liu Zhezhou is a man who won’t live long. A blood gu has taken root in his body, there’s no cure, and he could die by the roadside at any moment. But he also has another identity: the greatest demoness under heaven, the bloodthirsty Ghost Guanyin. Ten years ago, dressed as a woman, he took his sister’s place and traveled the martial world. By chance, he rescued a little girl from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. The child was dazed and wild as a beast, but one night she crawled into his arms, sobbing and calling, “Mama, Mama.” Afterward, he lost that little girl, and lost himself as well. Ten years later, the new emperor has been on the throne for only two years, and the realm remains unstable. Remnants of the previous dynasty are showing signs of revival, while separatist forces in the south seek once again to use dark arts to achieve immortality and transcendence, hoping to create an army of undead. To eradicate the undead corpses in the south, he must first retrieve his sword from a temple. On the road, bandits tried to rob him. While he hesitated over whether to intervene, a spirited young woman in red came to his rescue with her blade. At a glance, he recognized the short knife in her hand as the very clue he had dreamed of day and night. If he followed her, he was sure to find a way to keep himself alive. So he latched on to the cold and aloof young woman and refused to let go. Then he fell for the young woman whose heart was warm beneath her frosty exterior. And then he learned that she was the girl he had rescued ten years ago, and that, apparently because of him, she liked women and was in love with Ghost Guanyin. He panicked, and began to regret dressing as a woman. “If it’s my fault that she likes women, but I’m not one, then who can I complain to? Do I really have to take a knife to myself?” 【Content warning】 *My writing skills aren’t quite there yet. When I came up with the setting, I thought it felt pretty wuxia, but once I wrote it, it turned out a bit more fantastical. Please bear with me, everyone! ⸝⸝ʚ̴̶̷̆ ̯ʚ̴̶̷̆⸝⸝ Theme: Stand firm in your love and press forward without hesitation