I Have No Part in This Story

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[A portrait artist NPC who holds a book of predictions and wants to lie flat x a wolf in sheep's clothing, a deranged villainous Commander]

Friendly warning: This is a chase-and-escape romance set in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. It has coercive possession and a groveling pursuit, but only the hero suffers throughout!! (They secretly love each other, but after the hero sabotages things and blows his cover, it turns into unrequited love.)

Blurb:

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There was once a young woman who was all the rage in Bianjing City. She was the first female criminal portrait artist to enter the Northern Branch of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. But no one knew she had a book of predictions.

Most people with a book of predictions would be delighted. Only Rao Apu was troubled, because the book said she was an NPC and someone else was the heroine.

She was extremely frustrated and resentful, and fought back against all sorts of unfairness. Her first target was Wei Mingyi, a Thousand-Man Commander of the Northern Branch's Seventh Division, whom she'd once helped out.

He was handsome, gentle, and steady, and gave Apu plenty of comfort and advice.

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During the case of the flood in Yinzhou, Apu began to fall for Wei Mingyi. But because of the book of predictions, she misunderstood the situation and resolved not to compete with the heroine for him.

But then she realized that Brother Wei was acting stranger and stranger. One day, the book updated its list of villains, and his name was right there.

The upright and good-hearted Rao Apu was stunned. She wanted to persuade him to return to the right path, but knew she was powerless. She didn't want to get involved anymore, but suddenly realized she was already trapped, with no escape from his grasp.

3.

The new Commander was always going mad.

He went to the Northern Branch of the Embroidered Uniform Guard three times, but still couldn't catch the female portrait artist who kept avoiding him. Wei Mingyi sneered. In a fit of rage, he went straight to the inner palace and requested an imperial decree commanding her to marry him.

On their wedding night, dressed in his python robe with his embroidered spring saber at his waist, he crouched by the back gate of his own home, waiting to catch his prey. Sure enough, he saw the rabbit in her wedding dress scrambling over the wall to escape.

He clicked his tongue in annoyance and grabbed her slender neck, smiling without warmth. "Little Sister Apu, you're already mine. Why are you still running?"

The little figure in front of him trembled slightly and managed a stiff smile. "Brother Wei, stop joking around."

He leaned closer. "Wrong. Call me husband."

Tips:

1. The romance develops later. There is more plot at the start, with a focus on the leads' growth.

2. There are two books of predictions. I'll keep it a secret for now which one is in whose hands~

3. This is not a strong-female-lead story!

★ New book coming soon

Blurb:

A tragic, handsome, powerful general who attracts yin energy x a naturally airheaded, super-strong corpse driver

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Wen Zhao was born with a body that attracted yin energy. He could smell the aura of corpses and communicate with ghosts. To survive, he had no choice but to retreat to a temple to practice cultivation and avoid disaster.

But after his father and brothers were killed in the Battle of Canglan Road and five cities were lost, he was forced to descend the mountain, reclaim the prefectural cities, and return to the capital to clear his family's name.

Before the turmoil could settle, war broke out again. Outside Yingzhou City, he and three thousand soldiers made a last stand. In the end, his entire army was wiped out.

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Yuan Xiaoman traveled over mountains and rivers to gather the scattered corpses. Paper talismans filled the sky, and bells and gongs rang softly. In an instant, the corpses stood upright, stiffly listening to the bells as they hopped along behind her.

But she made one small mistake: the bell fell from her hand. She stared at the man on the verge of death, her eyes wide with shock.

She drove Wen Zhao back from the mountain of corpses, only to discover that he was suffering from soul-separation syndrome and had forty-nine days left to live.

To save his life and uncover the conspiracy behind the disaster at Yingzhou and the forbidden arts of the Southern Frontier,

the two traveled together from then on. A strange doctor and an uncanny child, man-eating poison, a puppet bride... Strange events kept occurring, and the mastermind gradually emerged.

But Wen Zhao's illness kept flaring up, and his temperament was unpredictable. One day, he lost his memory again and kept asking who he was.

Yuan Xiaoman lowered her eyes, picked up the longevity lock he'd thrown away countless times, and placed it in his palm. "Your name is Wen Zhao. Zhao, as in 'the principles of heaven are bright and clear.'"

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Later, when the Great Wei was on the brink of ruin, Wen Zhao spent all his life's cultivation to wager on a path to survival.

On horseback, he undid the longevity lock and leaned down to place it around Yuan Xiaoman's neck.

"Remember, take me home."

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Through the Ten Thousand Mountains, may our journey be safe.

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Theme: Don't casually give up on life.