Sword in Brocade

[Completed Novel: Scheming with a Eunuch]

[Currently Updating: Short Story Collection, Gathered Fragments]

Bo Xilü found a slave amid the chaos of war.

A Han Chinese slave girl, with a supple waist and soft lips. Her clear, almond-shaped eyes were so pitifully tender that a single touch brought a string of tears.

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The young woman clutched his clothes and sobbed, "General... I want to go home."

In this age of turmoil, Bo Xilü remained unmoved. "If you want to make a wish, go to a temple. If you want to stay alive, shut up and stay put."

He was no compassionate Buddha with lowered eyes, but a war demon drenched in blood in a living hell, the youngest and most formidable Lord in the history of the Wuqi tribe.

With an iron chain around her neck, he wickedly wanted to see white jade stained with blood and a precious pearl caked in dust.

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With a beauty on his lap and astride his red steed, he finally carved out his own realm amid the chaos and became a king. From the western windswept Gobi Desert to the foot of Red Mountain in the old lands of Liaodong, at last he raised a torch and led her into the cave of the ancestral gods. He carved their names side by side into the stone wall, his husky voice betraying his passion: "Good Ningning, let's have a child, all right?"

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Thousands of miles away, south of the Huai River, the ministers drove the southern-migrating royal family of the Mo Dynasty from the throne, and the Yin clan took over the realm.

With north and south facing off, Bo Xilü won victory after victory. But in the final battle, the new emperor of the Southern Dynasty personally drove him into a desperate corner.

As a sharp sword came down, the delicate girl he had always held close and protected in his arms on horseback blocked its edge. "Brother, don't kill him."

Yin Yuening looked at him, slumped on the ground. Her smile was as lovely as ever as she personally fastened around his neck the chain she had once worn in the army. "I want him as my slave, so he can watch me marry in glory."

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Overbearing conquest by a foreign war god x a delicate beauty forced to grow up

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Reading Guide:

1. An alternate history; everything serves the plot.

2. Both are each other's first, happy ending.

Theme: Born to endure, never to break.