Did My Archrival Husband Die Today?

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A dog-blooded extravaganza featuring puppy-like devotion, childhood sweethearts turned enemies, an arranged marriage, a white moonlight, bitter love, a wife-chasing crematorium, and a reunion after heartbreak.

[Important] Every plot detail in the blurb foreshadows something. Don't be too quick to believe a single word or trust anyone (heart)

Bai Xueting, an orphan of a family of loyal martyrs, and Yang Tan, commander of the Mingfeng Bureau, were known throughout the imperial capital as sworn enemies.

Yang Tan shot and killed their teacher on charges of treason. In revenge, Bai Xueting plotted to have his beloved cousin, Consort Xian, thrown into the Cold Palace.

An imperial decree of marriage bound the two together beneath one roof, despite their blood feud. They loathed each other at first sight, a resentful couple who wanted nothing more than to strangle one another.

The empress earnestly advised Bai Xueting, "Xueting, Yang Tan is a lone minister who makes enemies wherever he goes. Just wait for someone to scheme against him and get him killed, then inherit his fortune!"

The emperor earnestly advised Yang Tan, "Yang Tan, Xueting's parents are dead, and so is her teacher. You're her senior fellow disciple. You have a duty to look after her!"

On their wedding night, Bai Xueting drove a knife through Yang Tan's shoulder.

"You killed our teacher with your own hands, and you still have the nerve to call yourself my senior brother?"

Yang Tan gripped the blade, his hand covered in blood.

"When my elder sister was falsely accused and sent to the Cold Palace, you showed no mercy either."

After that, Bai Xueting spent every day hoping her husband would die, while Yang Tan spent every day wishing his wife would end up in prison. Whenever the two appeared together, blood was sure to spill.

Yet on the occasional clear, starry night, Yang Tan would look toward Bai Xueting's room and remember their youth.

They had studied under the same teacher. When Bai Xueting made a mistake, Yang Tan would shield her. When Yang Tan was caned, Bai Xueting would apply medicine and blow on his wounds.

Back then, she called him senior brother, called him big brother.

"1"

After they married, Bai Xueting lived up to her name, dressing in white every day.

Yang Tan couldn't stand it anymore. "When you were a kid, you dressed like a butterfly every day. Do you not own anything but white clothes now?"

Bai Xueting held a finger to her lips. "Keep your voice down. Amitabha. I'm wearing mourning clothes for my dead husband."

Yang Tan gritted his teeth. "After hearing that, I'll do whatever it takes to die after you."

"2"

Bai Xueting should never have married Yang Tan. She was betrothed to Prince Shu, Fu Lan.

Prince Shu was as beautiful as jade, but he was sickly and unlikely to live past twenty-five.

Yang Tan couldn't stand him.

When they first married, Bai Xueting made it her mission to provoke him.

She was always seen with Prince Shu, and even at palace banquets she brazenly sat beside him.

Everyone in the imperial capital knew that Commander Yang's new wife was in love with Prince Shu.

Yet every time Yang Tan and Bai Xueting argued, Prince Shu would come to comfort her despite his illness.

Later, Prince Shu was badly wounded while protecting Bai Xueting. As he lay dying in her arms, he gently kissed the corner of her lips.

Yang Tan's vision went black. He immediately summoned his personal guards...

Find every miraculous cure in the world if you have to, but save Prince Shu today!

If Prince Shu really died for Bai Xueting, she would never forget him for the rest of her life!

"3"

Bai Xueting had been falsely accused and treated terribly.

Yang Tan came to take her home, but she turned her face away.

"You're worried about losing face in front of me?" Yang Tan gently wiped the dirt from her face with his palm. "You're so fierce with me. How did you let someone bully you out there?"

Bai Xueting rushed over and wrapped her arms around his waist.

Yang Tan wiped away her tears and comforted her. "Don't cry, sweetheart."

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Every day, Xueting takes stock of herself three times: Is Yang Tan dead? Is my husband dead? Is my senior brother dead?

Tan: Every day I come home to find my wife cursing me to die.

Characters:

Bai Xueting (heroine): A sharp-tongued, vicious girl who would lick her lips after poisoning herself to death. A short-tempered killer who'd cut down anyone in her path, yet actually as kind and easygoing as a bodhisattva. A highly educated woman and the top scorer in the women's imperial examination.

Yang Tan (hero): Ambitious as a wolf, jealous as a possessive husband. Outside, he's a promising young powerbroker. At home, he's her big brother and puppy, a dog who loves getting slapped by Xueting.

#Yang Tan hates only Bai Xueting, Bai Xueting hates only Yang Tan#

Let's wish this resentful couple an eternity of entangled love (heart)

Reader's Guide:

1. Both leads are each other's first, with a happy ending. The hero is sexually inexperienced and faithful in both body and heart. The heroine truly loved the second male lead.

2. The maps and palaces are inspired by the Tang dynasty, but most details are made up. It's a fictional setting, so no historical research needed.

3. A dog-blooded hodgepodge. If anything makes you uncomfortable while reading, look after yourself and leave at once.

--------Coming Soon: The Demon's Consort's Diary--------

A second dog-blooded extravaganza featuring a rivalry for a woman's affection, an emperor stealing his subject's wife, lovers reunited after heartbreak, a sugar daddy, a lofty beauty brought down to earth, a wife-chasing crematorium, and a forced relationship.

You are a fine lady. Why play the wicked consort?

Consort Zhao Xu Qingfu was peerlessly beautiful, and the favorite of the entire harem. But her good fortune didn't last. In the fourth year after she entered the palace, Emperor Yuanhui Huo Xi died suddenly.

Her nemesis, Noble Consort Meng, became empress dowager and relentlessly pursued her.

"My sister enjoyed the late emperor's favor. Why not join him in death?"

Xu Qingfu knew she couldn't escape death. At midnight, she silently wept before the late emperor's coffin.

But in the Hall of the Immortals, a pair of long, cold hands lifted her up.

The new emperor, Huo Xian, watched her with an amused smile, looking utterly at ease.

"Would Lady Zhao like to live?" Huo Xian braced one hand on his late father's coffin, pinning Xu Qingfu in the narrow space between them. He tipped up her chin with a fingertip. "If you want to live, untie your sash yourself."

That night, their mourning clothes tangled together in wanton disarray.

Huo Xian held a lock of her damp hair between his lips and spoke slowly, his voice husky.

"The son succeeding the father is only right and proper."

"Lady Zhao, the late emperor is watching from heaven."

After that, Consort Zhao became the new emperor's secret lover, spending night after night in the imperial bed. The palace servants who knew urged her to accept her fate, but Xu Qingfu refused to be a favorite consort to two emperors.

When Huo Xian came of age to marry, the court repeatedly urged him to choose an empress and consorts.

Xu Qingfu knew she would have to leave eventually.

The day the imperial physician confirmed she was pregnant, she was perfectly calm. She thought perhaps the time had come.

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Before entering the palace, Xu Qingfu had once been engaged. Her betrothed was Cui Ke, the eldest son of the Cui family, now a junior vice minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices: a man of noble character and exceptional talent.

Cui Shaoqing was so upright, and so willing to let bygones be bygones.

He escorted her on a "prayer pilgrimage" and brought back news to the capital that Consort Zhao had fallen from a cliff, leaving no remains.

No one knew that Xu Qingfu gave birth at Cui Ke's estate to the "bastard child" she had conceived with Huo Xian.

Then she abandoned everything and left without a backward glance.

The world only knew that the unmarried and childless Shaoqing suddenly had a daughter one day. He spoiled the girl in every way and personally took care of everything for her.

He said she was the only living bloodline of the woman he loved.

As the young lady of the Cui family grew older, everyone who saw her was astonished to discover that her eyes and brows looked exactly like those of Consort Zhao, the peerless beauty who had died young.

And her thin lips and bold features didn't resemble Shaoqing's. They looked more like...

The man on the dragon throne.

Characters:

Young Xu: A delicate, helpless-looking beauty on the outside, but stubborn to the core. She loves wine and freedom, and has an unwavering spirit. She is ruthless in her heart, but never raises a hand.

Xian: A male ghost of a yandere, completely insane and genuinely insatiable, hehe.

Cui Ke: Truly upright, devoted to Xu above all else, and a doting father, though the child isn't his.

Theme: Looking back across ten thousand miles, an old friend is gone forever