[A Scheming Green Tea Emperor Pretending to Be a Tyrant] My wife is a flirt. Trying to kill me is just a little game to her.
[An Innocent, Earnest Flower Spirit Who Puts Merit Above All] I'm not a flirt. I just want to kill you.
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Jing Yudan was a peony spirit who had cultivated for eight hundred years. To earn enough merit to become an immortal, she opened a clinic in the human world and devoted herself to healing the sick and saving lives.
She worked hard for two hundred years and finally amassed sixty thousand merit points. She was still forty thousand short of becoming an immortal.
One day, Jing Yudan came across an injured man by a stream.
A little sparrow warned her, "You can't just pick up a man you find on the roadside! Be careful, or your whole clan could be wiped out."
"But I'm a spirit! I don't have a clan."
"..."
For the sake of merit, Jing Yudan saved the man's life anyway. Once he recovered, all her merit points were wiped out!
Jing Yudan was stunned.
She used a spell to investigate and discovered that the man she'd saved was the future emperor, a tyrant who would kill his brother and murder his father, earning the wrath of both gods and men!
To restore her merit (crossed out), and to uphold justice, Jing Yudan began her long campaign to kill the tyrant.
But after six months of trying, she was instead trapped by the tyrant's imperial aura and dragged into the palace, where she became his empress. The emperor doted on her endlessly, giving her anything she wanted.
But all she wanted was merit.
At last, one day, while the tyrant was clinging to her, she slaughtered him and walked away.
Her merit was finally restored, but a crack had opened in her heart, leaving it aching and cold.
The little sparrow said, "It's over. You've fallen in love with him."
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Xiao Ji had grown up in a palace where people devoured one another. After surviving countless open and covert attacks, his wariness had become as formidable as a fortress wall.
On this trip, he was sent to oversee disaster relief. On his way back, he was attacked again, only to be saved by a woman physician.
She was a skilled doctor who fussed over him and cared for him deeply. The only thing was...
She was a bit of a lech.
She was always using the chance to apply medicine to him to poke and squeeze his abs, and she would deliberately come to examine him late at night, throwing herself into his arms.
Every so often, she'd even try to kill him as a little game. Without fail, the dagger would fall to the ground as soon as she raised it, and she'd stumble into his arms; or she'd bring him a cup of poisoned wine that turned out to be aphrodisiac dew.
That was how she let down her guard...
Oh, well. She had saved his life, after all. He might as well indulge her!
At last, he ascended the throne and granted her the highest honor.
But Xiao Ji realized that his empress seemed to be a spirit...
Theme: Love means respect.
