After I Accidentally Got Bound to My Archrival

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Ming Yuan hates Mo Yu.

She's the most talented junior disciple of the Linghua Sect and the darling of her senior brothers and sisters. The greatest setback she's ever faced is that the person she has a crush on doesn't love her back.

That is, until her master brings back a new junior disciple from down the mountain.

Mo Yu is just like his name: handsome, with a rotten heart. He's also exceptionally good at pretending, and in just a few days he steals her place as everyone's favorite.

Not only that, he's always picking on her. If he's not pranking her, he's on his way to prank her, and he loves getting in the way whenever she tries to spend time alone with their master.

Ming Yuan grits her teeth in fury.

But she can't beat him, and she can't find a way to deal with him.

So after he gets in her way yet again, she decides to attack him from behind.

That night, she sneaks into Mo Yu's room, planning to teach him a lesson. But when she lifts the covers, her junior disciple is nowhere to be seen. There's only a palm-sized little snake inside.

The little snake stares at her for a moment, then suddenly bites her.

Ming Yuan: ?!

At the same time, a voice rings out in her sea of consciousness:

"Master-servant pact established."

The little snake instantly turns into a giant python and coils around her, pulling her under the covers.

Mo Yu has a secret.

He's a half-breed, the child of a black dragon and a human. Because his bloodline is impure, he loses his memory every year on a night in March and turns into an ordinary little black snake.

It's the time when he's most vulnerable and sensitive, and the slightest mistake could let someone take advantage of him.

He's always been extremely careful about it.

Until one day, he wakes up to discover that he has acquired a "master."

[Bonus scene]

At first, Ming Yuan thinks that since she's the senior disciple, she absolutely has to be on top of her junior disciple.

She never expected to actually end up on top of him.

Blurb written August 15, 2023; revised February 21, 2024

[Upcoming novel blurb]

The day Wei Xuan is told she's the fake heiress, she accidentally falls and hits her head. When she wakes up, she's lost all her memories.

All she remembers is that she has a cousin temporarily staying at the Wei residence, and before long the two of them will be getting married.

Her cousin, Xie Ying, is a celebrated young general from Longxi, handsome and highly skilled in martial arts.

Looking at the handsome profile of the young man beneath the covered walkway, Wei Xuan blushes to herself.

Unfortunately, Xie Ying is perfect in every way except for his terrible temper. He never lets her get close, and even speaking to her seems to annoy him.

To win him over, Wei Xuan tries all sorts of ways to coax him every day. Today she makes him soup; tomorrow she embroiders him a sachet. She goes out of her way to arrange every chance encounter, all so she can get him to look her way.

When he claims he needs to cultivate in seclusion, she climbs in through his window.

When he hides in the military camp, she waits for him on the training grounds.

Wei Xuan even pretends to be drunk and falls against him. As Xie Ying helps her, she leans into his arms and says sweetly, "Brother, I like you so much."

A young woman's innocent seduction is irresistible. Just as he finally begins to waver, Wei Xuan suddenly regains her memories.

Clutching the love letter Xie Ying wrote her, a chill rises in her heart.

No wonder he hated her so much. It turns out he wasn't her cousin at all. He was the real young master whose place she had stolen for nineteen years!

Just then, her gentle and refined real cousin returns to the capital. Without a second thought, Wei Xuan clings to him, hoping to use him to get away from Xie Ying.

To her surprise, after her cousin courteously escorts her home during the day, a cold hand grabs her face in the dead of night. Calluses rub painfully against her skin, and a sinister voice falls by her ear along with an icy kiss.

"A-Xuan, didn't you say I was your fiance?"

A case of switched babies left Xie Ying away from home for nineteen years.

After making a name for himself on the border with sword and spear, he was suddenly told that he wasn't an orphan at all, but the legitimate son of Wei Cheng, the Minister of War.

There was another child in the Wei household besides him: a fake heiress, shameless and spoiled, who refused to leave the Wei family even after her identity was exposed.

At first, Xie Ying feels nothing but disgust for her.

Later, he thinks that since Wei Xuan has lived in the Wei household for more than ten years, she might as well stay.

Theme: Have the courage to fight back against fate.