The Jilted Jade Groom

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■[Dazzling, seductive female spy x cold-hearted, obsessive young nobleman]

Ji Shu Yu is breathtakingly beautiful, a rare sight in this world.

She is also a beauty forged by the Dark Pavilion over ten years, a weapon meant to be planted in a noble household as a hidden spy.

Before she leaves, her master repeatedly warns her that her beauty can win her every treasure in the world, but love is worthless as mud and must never be touched.

Once she leaves, the beauty takes those words as an absolute rule. To save her life or fulfill her mission, she abandons two husbands in succession.

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Her first husband was a bandit who attacked her wedding procession and abducted her to his stronghold.

A mountain outlaw could never be the right man for her.

They were not fated to be together, and forcing it would bring no good end.

He stood in her way, so he died beneath the rushing waters, leaving no trace.

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Her second husband came from a wealthy and powerful family.

He was as flawless as fine jade, bright and noble, with not a single fault to be found.

She thought she had truly begun to fall for him a little. But whether love flourished or withered, life and death were no longer theirs to choose.

Perhaps dying alone, with no one to rely on, was simply the true fate of a spy.

She never imagined that karma would truly come back to haunt her.

On the seventh night after her husband's death, she woke from a nightmare, drenched in cold sweat.

When she opened her eyes, every candle in the ancestral hall had gone out. A chilling wind howled past her ears like the wails of vengeful ghosts.

The air was thick with the heady scent of orchids and musk. Beside her lay a half-undressed figure, with the face and build of an immortal, identical in every way to her husband, who had been dead for days.