His Majesty's Fox Spirit Faked Her Death and Escaped

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Coming soon: The Emperor Is Actually a Tyrant! Please add it to your collection~

-- (Here begins the blurb) --

After a palace coup, the once-mighty general became a prisoner.

Only then did the world learn that the general who had guarded the Great Yu dynasty for over a decade was actually a fox spirit.

As Li You sat on the torture rack, the new emperor pulled his fox tail and lifted his chin with a riding crop. "Join my harem, and I'll ensure you live in luxury."

Only then did Li You realize that the emperor's talk of "affection" had been nothing but a lie in the struggle for the throne. And yet, he had taken it to heart.

He gave a bitter laugh. "Decades as a man were worth less than a few years as a fox."

The next day, all the new emperor found was a sea of flames and a fox's bones.

They met again five years later. The once-spirited young general sat beneath a parasol tree at the village entrance, dressed in white.

Qi Huaiyun threatened to take the lives of every villager and forced him back to the palace.

On the day he entered the palace, the city was draped in red silk. A dagger sank into Qi Huaiyun's chest.

Those familiar fox eyes held nothing but coldness.

Qi Huaiyun abruptly pulled Li You into his arms.

The dagger sank all the way in, but Qi Huaiyun acted as if he hadn't noticed.

He bit Li You's ear and murmured, "Li You, even if I die, you'll have to join me in the grave. In this life and every life to come, you will never escape me."

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Ever since ascending the throne, Qi Huaiyun had dreamed the same dream every day.

In the dream, across a long flight of white jade steps, he saw Li You dressed in bloodstained clothes and holding a greatsword. It seemed he had a thousand things to say, but in the end, only one sentence remained:

"Qi Huaiyun, you're nothing special."

No one knew that this was Qi Huaiyun's lifelong nightmare.

Li You x Qi Huaiyun (Yun)

P.S.

1. The dynasty is fictional, and the setting is made up. Don't overanalyze it.

2. The entire story is made up by the author. Don't overanalyze it.

3. For entertainment only. Don't overanalyze it.

-- Coming soon: The Emperor Is Actually a Tyrant! Please add it to your collection~ --

When Li Mo opened his eyes again, he was lying in a coffin.

The person who opened the coffin told Li Mo he was descended from a fortune-teller and had to help bring someone back to life.

Li Mo thought the man was talking nonsense.

First, he had no memory of anything like that, though he couldn't remember anything else, either.

Second, if this man could call him out of a coffin, then which one of them was the fortune-teller?

But the man looked fierce and held a shovel, as if he could send Li Mo right back with a single blow if he refused.

A real man doesn't make empty promises!

And he wasn't about to take a shovel to the head for nothing!

Li Mo made a show of reading the signs and began to spout nonsense. "You and your beloved are destined to be together. You'll end up as a couple, mm... Why are you kissing me!"

Who knew the man would step into the coffin and push Li Mo back against its lid?

Song Wang: "You need to take in some yang energy if you're going to stay here for long."

Li Mo: "You need to stick your tongue out to take in yang energy?!"

Song Wang: "Yes. Pure yang energy gathers on the tongue."

Li Mo cursed, "Bullshit!"

Then he asked Song Wang, "How much longer will one kiss keep me alive? Mm..."

*

That year, Song Wang entered the palace to kill the tyrant.

But the tyrant saw through his ruse at first sight.

"Song Wang." Li Mo rested his chin in his hand and smiled down at him as he knelt in the great hall. "Your name is just as unlucky as mine. You'd make a fine sacrifice at my funeral."

Yet when the city fell, Li Mo drank the poison wine Song Wang gave him and told him, "You're not worthy of joining me in death. Get lost!"

Song Wang became a hero of the new dynasty, walking over Li Mo's corpse.

Only later did he learn that Li Mo had taken over his elder brother's mess, and that his tyranny had brought peace to the people.

Only later did he learn that Li Mo had secretly supported the new emperor, then gone to his death carrying a reputation as a villain.

Only later did he learn that the one time Li Mo had given his heart, it had been to a male favorite.

The only selfish thing Li Mo ever did was scheme to make sure Song Wang would never be able to let him go.

Afterward, Song Wang dug up Li Mo's grave.

Li Mo x Song Wang

Theme: Staying alive comes first.