Daughter of the Wu Tribe's priestess vs. sickly regent uncle
Beneath the warm red bridal curtains, the groom smugly lifted the bridal veil, then suddenly went pale with shock!
The woman beneath the veil was stunningly beautiful, but she wasn't his bride. To make matters worse, a sharp blade was pressed to his throat.
"I've come to send you to the afterlife."
The girl smiled radiantly, then struck. The man before her fell to the ground in an instant.
The commotion alerted the guards outside. They rushed in, and when the Marquis of Anxi saw the body of his only son in the room, his eyes nearly burst with fury. "Witch! I'll have your skin peeled off and your bones broken!"
The guards drew their swords to attack, but one man's words made them break out in a cold sweat.
"She is my wife. Anyone who harms her will have their entire clan executed." Qin Xuan spoke coldly, his eyes fixed on the wedding dress Mu Lan was wearing. His frown was deep enough to trap a mosquito.
He had asked for her hand many times, but she had always refused. Yet she'd put on a wedding dress for another man. He shifted his gaze to the corpse on the ground, wanting to scatter the man's ashes.
Mu Lan wiped the blood from her hands with disgust and corrected him unhappily. "Hey, don't make things up. We're just lovers. I never agreed to marry you."
Hearing that the regent had been rejected, everyone fled in terror, afraid they'd be too late to see another sunrise. Even the furious Marquis of Anxi was hustled out with a hand clamped over his mouth.
The room fell silent. Seeing Qin Xuan's icy expression, Mu Lan reluctantly went over to explain. "Xiao Rou said she was scared, so... I took her place."
"She was scared? I was even more scared than her!" Qin Xuan snapped. Heaven knew his heart had stopped for a moment when he'd seen her covered in blood.
Blurb written on March 18, 2022
Theme: Never give up
