A Thousand-Year Marriage Contract

[Fake Sun x Real Male Ghost] [Lots of Male Rivals, Shura-Style Showdown]

Few people knew that the Minister of Revenue had a third daughter, a beauty of unparalleled grace. Because she was blind in one eye, her family considered her an ill omen and kept her hidden away in their sprawling estate, where no one could see her.

Few people knew, either, that Third Miss Ling Xu had suffered the same nightmare for years. In it, a young man covered in blood claimed to be her betrothed and said he would marry her.

Terrified that the nightmare might come true, Ling Xu begged her mother to arrange a marriage for her so she could escape the man in her dreams.

On the day her engagement was arranged, the cloudless sky suddenly filled with howling winds and torrential rain. A tall, imposing figure appeared behind the curtain of rain, which obediently parted around him. He wore armor and a battle robe, and an unrestrained aura of wickedness surged around him from head to toe. Little by little, he became the very man from Ling Xu's dream.

He walked at an unhurried pace all the way to the Minister's residence. In his right hand was a long sword dripping with blood; in his left, he carried Ling Xu's newly betrothed, blood pouring from him as he hung limp and unresponsive.

Two rows of grim-faced generals stood behind him, carrying a full 108 loads of betrothal gifts to her home.

He said she had betrayed their promise, his voice cool and detached, just like the one in her nightmare.

Ling Xu lowered her eyes to the marriage contract beneath the man's long, slender fingers. It gleamed with gold and vermilion. A marriage contract was supposed to be red.

But hers had been dyed red with blood.

"Xu Xu." He called her affectionately. "Do you know what happens to those who betray me?"

Special thanks to my friends, who endured endless torment while I revised this blurb. Let me kowtow to you: bang, bang! In no particular order: Mushroom, Bing Bing, Qing Mei, and Xi Xi!

!! Important note:

1. Both leads are hopeless romantics. This is proper xianxia, with a few mildly frightening scenes!

2. Expect melodrama and some Mary Sue elements.

3. Feel free to judge the characters, just don't take it out on the author. (pathetically.jpg)

This is what I'll write next, so please add it to your collection~

"The Luan Bridge Cannot Be Crossed"

To succeed in her tribulation, Fu Luan got up earlier than a chicken and went to bed later than a dog. She trained diligently, painstakingly built up good karma, and, with a face like a dream, refused to date and focused on her career. Then the tribulation lightning came, and she died, clear as day.

She thought she was done for, but woke up in a shabby thatched hut. Beneath her was a broken straw mat barely two feet wide, before her was a battered desk, and beyond it stretched an endless queue of ghosts waiting for her to arrange their reincarnations.

Fu Luan, who still had to work nine to five after death: ...I've got a three-character curse I don't know whether I should say.

Luckily, she was a kind person. What else could she do but get on with life? Having a job in this day and age was already pretty good. Why would she need a thousand-mile steed?

Life as a land deity was pretty nice, too. She beat up little demons one day and little ghosts the next, until the day she offended a god named Yu Cong.

An ancient text records: The Divine Lord Yu Cong, youngest son of the Ancestral Emperor, was a revered god of the Great Wilderness, handsome in appearance. He commanded chaos and governed yin and yang. His temperament was violent; to look upon him was to have one's soul scattered, and when enraged, he could summon thunder powerful enough to topple mountains and overturn seas... In the twenty-sixth year of the West Sea era, he was defeated by the Heavenly Emperor Xiang Yan, and his soul returned to heaven and earth.

Fu Luan, who had just plucked out one of Yu Cong's hairs, calmly hid her hand behind her back. Stay calm. People having the same name is perfectly normal.

Note:

1. A feel-good read.

2. A silly, horror-tinged plot-driven story that may lower your sanity.

Theme: No matter what, never give up on the principle of kindness.