After the Enemy Nation's Heir Used a Love Gu on Me

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Blurb:

A beautiful, sweet-faced but cunning young heir with Miao ancestry x a young commandery princess with eight hundred tricks up her sleeve

On the day Commandery Princess Wen Xuelong comes of age, her father and brothers are ambushed by the banks of the Chunjiang River in Shuqing. She risks her life to hurry to the capital with the news, only to learn that her father has been convicted of treason and died by suicide. The Wen family has been condemned, and every last one of them is to be executed.

To save her brother and the remaining members of the Wen clan, Wen Xuelong petitions the emperor. Though she is the daughter of a condemned traitor, she will escort her cousin, the princess, to Shuqing to marry as part of a political alliance.

Everyone knows that the princess's future husband, the heir of Shuqing, is peerlessly handsome. With Miao blood running through his veins, he is especially skilled at bewitching people's minds with his gu techniques.

Everyone fears him and keeps their distance, saying he is no fit match for a young lady.

The waters of Qingchuan flow gently, and distant mountains shimmer like water.

In early spring, as the wedding procession is halfway to its destination, it is ambushed in a bamboo grove.

Wen Xuelong fights desperately to drive off the bandits. When she comes to her senses, she discovers that the princess is missing.

At some point, the tip of her finger was pierced. A drop of black blood falls: a sign that she has been afflicted with a love gu.

"Are you all right?"

Wen Xuelong looks up. The young man before her wears a worried expression, gentle and refined, but his eyes are unfathomably deep. Silver earrings and ornaments glint coldly on him.

Amid the rustling bamboo, Wen Xuelong meets Zhu Yang for the first time.

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He claims to be the heir's twin brother, here to escort the procession into Shu.

The princess is missing, but the marriage must go ahead.

More importantly, Wen Xuelong discovers that there is no cure for the deadly love gu. To stay alive, she has no choice but to spend a night of passion with someone.

On her wedding day, Wen Xuelong wears the princess's bridal gown and hides a sharp blade in her arms, waiting for the heir to lift her veil

She looks at the familiar face before her, bears the pain of the love gu flaring up, and hears him lean close to ask in a low, husky voice, "Will you kill me now, or let me help you break the gu's hold?"

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Ever since learning the secret of his birth, Zhu Yang has known he walks on the edge of a blade. He has spent years scheming in secret in Shuqing. Rumors swirl around him, yet no young woman has ever been able to stay by his side.

He knows that although Wen Xuelong has fallen from grace, she is still a force to be reckoned with. Keeping her in Shu would only invite endless trouble.

That day, when they were ambushed, he had originally intended to kill her.

But that damp evening, with dew clinging to her clothes, the instant he saw her, he changed his mind.

Everyone says he is skilled in gu techniques,

but no one knows that when the young heir cast a love gu for the first time, his fingers were trembling.

[Single couple, happy ending]

1. An obsessive pursuit that backfires. The male lead is a madly-in-love obsessive. The characters' values do not represent the author's.

2. The dynasty is fictional, with some elements inspired by the Wei and Jin periods. Please don't take the historical details too seriously.

3. The protagonists are not morally perfect. The person who frames the heroine's father, brothers, and family in the blurb is not the male lead.

4. The gu techniques in this story have nothing to do with magic. All the characters are ordinary people, with no supernatural setting.

Theme: Though the road is long and hard, the light will not go out.