"Low-martial fantasy" "Over-the-top melodrama" "A freewheeling work with no outline"
Everyone says Yan Xingzhi is pitiful.
Once a celebrated young gentleman, he watched his family fall in a single night. A slave contract was imposed on him, and Wenren Jiao, the eldest daughter of Wenren Manor, who suffered from a cold poison, bought him back to serve as her human medicine.
Every time the poison flared up, she took the blood from his heart to make medicine, leaving him worse off than dead.
Wenren Jiao thought everyone who said this was so stupid they were laughable.
The celebrated young gentleman they spoke of had shamelessly climbed into her bed the day after she bought him and become her cultivation furnace.
To prove his loyalty, he even tricked his close friend, the very person she loved, into coming to her, and sent him to her bed as well.
She laughed at him. "So the celebrated young gentleman is actually a rotten hypocrite."
He laughed too. "I just want to be a dog at the eldest lady's side."
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Later, Wenren Jiao watched with her own eyes as this sanctimonious scoundrel rose to greatness.
But she had already got her beloved's weakness in hand, so she cast the scoundrel aside and focused on preparing for her pledge ceremony with the person she loved.
But on the day of the ceremony, heavy rain fell, and the scoundrel stormed up the mountain to stop it. Soaked and shivering, he sighed, "But, eldest lady, scoundrels belong with scoundrels...
"When my Yan family was in trouble, you knew what was happening and stood by, just so you could buy me back.
"Since you're no good either, let's be two scoundrels together, rotting and stinking, entangled until death..."
Wenren Jiao couldn't tell whether it was the rain or her heart that felt cold.
She activated the gu that should have been planted in the person she loved, but the gu answered from Yan Xingzhi instead.
As for the antidote, she had already destroyed it.
Reading guide:
The author just wants to cook up a story. The characters' values do not represent the author's.
The story focuses on romance. Based on the main characters' personalities, the romance has a happy ending, while the career plot has a spectacularly tragic ending.
To reiterate, the character descriptions of both leads are clearly laid out in the blurb, so read with care. Please don't click in and complain when it's all been made clear here.
Theme: Even villains have their match
