After My Nemesis and I Were Cursed by a Love Bug

(Blurb and main story completed in 2024. Copying or adapting this is strictly prohibited.) What’s more humiliating than losing to your nemesis’s sword? Dying to your nemesis’s sword? No. Being infected with a love curse alongside your nemesis, one that kills you if you don’t kiss. Their mouths say they can’t stand each other, but their bodies tell a different story… In public, Lian Qiao wishes Lu Wujiao would drop dead. In private, Lian Qiao wishes she could kiss Lu Wujiao to death. And the worst part is that the longer it goes on, the stronger the curse gets. At first, they only need to hug. Then they have to kiss, and after that… Lian Qiao can’t take it! If she doesn’t break the curse soon, she really will want to die. The cure is a long way off, and the two silently agree to hide the fact that they’re cursed. Strangers in public, kissing like mad in private. But if you keep walking along the riverbank, you’re bound to get your shoes wet. After the two of them get into a huge fight at the Immortal Sword Tournament, they secretly meet in the back hills. Their friends and family grow alarmed and rush over in the middle of the night to stop them. But when they open the door, they find the two people who supposedly can’t stand each other in a passionate kiss, their clothes in disarray. Everyone: ? Sorry to interrupt. So that’s what you mean by a fierce battle. Utterly humiliated, Lian Qiao has no choice but to explain that she really was cursed. But after examining her pulse, the renowned physician hesitates before speaking. “Miss, your curse has indeed not been lifted. But Lu Wujiao has already advanced in cultivation. Technically, the curse stopped affecting him two months ago.” Lian Qiao: ? She looks down at the little note from Lu Wujiao asking her to meet him in the woods tonight to continue “curing” them, and her expression turns curious. Couple: [Incredibly Oblivious VS Cunning and Brooding] Reader’s Guide ◎ Natural charm overcomes scheming. The heroine is devoted to cultivation and clueless about romance, sweet and adorable, and desperately concerned with saving face. The hero is cunning and calculating, but his mouth is harder than stone. ◎ Monster hunting and solving cases, with a mountain of original worldbuilding. Slow burn at first. Draft saved on June 21, 2021. ◎ Lighthearted story. ※New story now underway※ The Son of Heaven is in Chang’an, and the Wei clan commands its private army. As the eldest daughter of the powerful Wei-Bo military governor, Xiao Chenbi supports the young emperor, holds the northern provinces, and sets her sights on the realm. But Prince Changping, Li Xiubai, repeatedly obstructs her. When a war breaks out among the regional governors, the two of them fall off a cliff together. Against all odds, Xiao Chenbi survives and ends up in enemy territory. To save her life, she is forced to pretend to be her archenemy’s widow, claiming to be pregnant with his posthumous child and spinning an elaborate tale about their love that moved heaven and earth. The ruse works almost too well. Not only does Xiao Chenbi escape the search, she even thrives in Chang’an under the identity of her archenemy’s widow. But there’s one problem she can’t explain away: she’s never even met Li Xiubai, much less carried his child. With no other choice, Xiao Chenbi buys a handsome man to father a child. Once she’s confirmed to be pregnant, she decisively plans to keep the child and get rid of the father. But the man doesn’t die. Instead, he turns the tables and tracks her down at the prince’s residence. Terrified, Xiao Chenbi hurries over with people to intercept him. But after seeing them together, her servants exclaim that Xiao Chenbi truly is in love, to the point that her beloved has come back from the dead! Only then does Xiao Chenbi realize that this man is none other than the archenemy she once fought from afar. Li Xiubai finally understands that he’s been forced to cuckold himself all this time. Listening to the tragic love story about the two of them circulating through every street and alley, he wears an inscrutable, almost smiling expression. “How come I don’t remember loving you so desperately I thought I’d die?” ※Completed Stories※ Ashen Joy: See my profile for The Stranger Beside Her. Weibo: @Jinjiang Xianxiang Theme: When the false becomes true, the true becomes false; when nothing becomes something, something returns to nothing