The Gu King had a son late in life and cherished him like the apple of his eye. Knowing his son was frail, he never taught him the art of witchcraft and gu poison.
Protected by his older siblings, the boy grew up to be twenty. The Gu King decided it was time to find his precious son a match and betrothed him to his old friend's only son, Shen Que.
Who could have known that Shen Que hated arranged marriages? The moment the ceremony was over, he left the country, and stayed away for two years.
The above is an excerpt from an angsty romance. Shen Que is the male lead gong, while the male lead shou is someone else.
Gu Xiaobao, who transmigrated into the Gu King's youngest son, is a foolish cannon-fodder character with a frail constitution. He gets winded after three steps and coughs after five.
Gu Xiaobao stared at the plot, lost in thought.
He wasn't interested in gu poison, but he didn't want to get his head separated from his body either!
Big brother, big sister, Dad, help! If the protagonist won't play fair, neither will we. Let's cut his head off first!
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Two years later, Shen Que finally returned.
Then he discovered that the boy his family had foisted on him had changed. Apart from being a bit supernatural, he was... pretty interesting.
For instance, clutching his chest as he brought over rice mixed with spider legs; sneaking into the bathroom while Shen Que showered, striking poses as he tossed toads into the tub; coating his tongue with snake venom and clinging to him to demand a kiss... In short, he was making a grand attempt to kill him.
But it had to be said: aside from the spider-leg rice, the boy's side dishes suited his taste. His poses as he flaunted himself in Shen Que's shirt were quite a sight, and the way he waited in the study, eager for a kiss, was truly stress-relieving.
And the way he poisoned himself before they even kissed was... pretty cute, too.
Mm.
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Later, watching the man who tied him up and fed him medicine during the day, then tied him to the bed and fed him all sorts of strange things at night, Gu Xiaobao couldn't help but crawl around in the darkness and scream in frustration.
He had poisoned the man with a gu, a mother-and-son gu, a heart-corroding gu, and a bloodthirsty gu... but he couldn't remember ever giving him a love gu or an aphrodisiac gu.
How had things gotten so out of control?
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Blurb:
Qin Yilin comes from a good family, is handsome, and excels at school. He's the undisputed darling of heaven.
Jiang Yu comes from the very bottom of society. He dropped out of high school, ranked among the top eighty in a talent show, and is a clump of mud Nuwa tossed carelessly to the ground.
The two should have been worlds apart, never to cross paths. Yet on graduation day, Qin Yilin proposed to Jiang Yu in front of the entire school and the media.
Three months later, their wedding of the century graced the front page for a full half-month, its extravagance astonishing everyone.
But fate loves to toy with lovers. Just two years into their marriage, Qin Yilin died in an accident. Dressed in black, Jiang Yu fainted from crying several times at the memorial.
On the third day after her husband's death, Jiang Yu was still wearing swollen, walnut-sized eyes as he saw off all the mourners. He closed the door, turned around, and the grief on his face vanished in an instant.
He picked up a bottle of red wine and sat in front of Qin Yilin's memorial tablet.
He pulled out the cork and poured all the dark red, viscous liquid over the little wooden tablet.
Qin Yilin, now it's my turn to take back everything that should have belonged to me.
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In his previous life, Jiang Yu only learned he was the cannon-fodder real young master in a transmigration-into-a-book story when he died of illness by the roadside.
The transmigrated fake young master was the protagonist, enjoying a privileged life. Meanwhile, Jiang Yu had gone to work at fourteen, and his family would lecture him for ages if he bought even two steamed buns.
In this life, he deliberately got close to Qin Yilin and carefully planned that accident. Who says throwing a tantrum is the only way to reclaim the family fortune?
He inherited all of Qin Yilin's estate and enjoyed the care and affection of his parents-in-law. On the seventh day after Qin Yilin's death, he even lay in the bathtub and put on a little movie.
Just as the moment arrived, a pair of invisible hands suddenly gripped him tightly around the throat.
A cold voice whispered in his ear: "Darling, is this how you're remembering me?"
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Jiang Yu suspected that something had latched onto him. To save himself, he hurriedly signed up for an escape-variety show livestreamed around the clock.
Everyone on the show was a washed-up nobody, and he was even more infamous, having married into a wealthy family while his career was on the rise. He was cursed by the entire internet.
Everyone was waiting for the washed-up nobody to embarrass himself, only to see the ghost king chasing after him suddenly explode, while the bosses in the other challenges shed bloody tears in terror.
They also saw him in an empty room, as if something had suddenly pinned him down. His face flushed, and he gritted his teeth, letting out a shy sigh.
Theme: Believe in science and modern medicine.