Ayinchi was the most honored young prince in the tribe.
But he had no desire to be a hothouse flower, raised by his father and elder brother in a warm tent among the sand dunes. He wanted to be a gray wolf howling at the moon over the desert, a mighty eagle riding the wind and cleaving the clouds, a great khan who could flatten the Gobi and bring all the tribes to heel.
Ayinchi killed his father, deposed his elder brother, and became the tribe's new king, stepping over mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
After that, he paid a fortune to hire mercenaries and made grand promises to the young leaders of other tribes. In the end, he became the new khan.
He wanted to marry the beloved girl who had come from the Central Plains.
But...
The mercenary commander who had followed his every order, Kuoshi, who had risked life and limb for him, and the young tribal leaders who had pledged themselves to him... one after another, they turned on him. They dared to set their sights on him, the ruler of the Northern Desert. Such treachery deserved death.
But without their support, Ayinchi seemed to be nothing more than a useless little man hiding behind borrowed authority.
"Ayinchi!" A man strode in from outside, nine feet tall and clad head to toe in black armor.
With his arrival, another layer of treasure piled onto the wolf-pelt cushion already heaped with gold beads and jade ornaments. He rummaged out a chain set with deep-blue gems, grabbed an ankle curled in the corner, and tried to put it on. "Do you like it?"
"Get out!"
The man kicked and thrashed wildly, but his skin was soft and delicate from being pampered, and he was no match for the man before him.
There was already a pearl bracelet on his ankle. It hadn't been given by the man
The man took off the bracelet and tossed it to the ground, then bent down and pressed a kiss heavy with the smell of blood to his lips.
After finally escaping the desert, Ayinchi followed the address his beloved had given him and found the imperial capital.
His beloved turned out to be a princess of the Central Plains.
Overjoyed, he thought he could finally spend his life with the one he loved. Even when they dressed him in robes and helped him into the bridal sedan, he thought it was simply a custom of the Central Plains.
Until their wedding night, when the ceremonial scale lifted the red veil.
Standing before him was the crown prince of the Central Plains, dressed in a gold-brocaded wedding robe and wearing a golden crown.
[Highlights]
1. A silly, vicious, but truly beautiful shou.
2. Everyone falls for him, a no-holds-barred love triangle, and coercive love.
3. The characters' values do not represent the author's values.
Theme: Press on through the thorns, find a way to survive when all seems lost, and keep your heart turned toward the light.