I Saved a Beautiful Young Man from Miaojiang

Shangya was a slave. One bitter winter, she came across a young man covered in wounds and on the verge of freezing to death.

Shangya saved him. He wore many silver ornaments she'd never seen before, and he was beautiful. She had never seen anyone so beautiful.

He told her his name was Youlian.

In that tiny, shabby side room, Shangya spent every day with Youlian. The young man was beautiful, and though he had a poor temper, he was utterly guileless, as if he'd never had any contact with people before.

Most importantly, he seemed gentle only with her.

Shangya gradually fell for him. When spring came the following year, she confessed her feelings to Youlian.

The young man's dark phoenix eyes fixed on her. After a long while, he beckoned her closer.

He pricked her fingertip with a needle, then took a strand of her dark hair.

Shangya covered her aching fingertip and asked, holding back tears, what he was doing.

Youlian only smiled and licked the wound on her finger. His words were muffled. "Now you'll never be able to leave my side."

"Xiao Ya, you must never betray me," Youlian said, staring at her. "If I find out you're trying to escape..."

He didn't finish the sentence.

After that, more and more snakes and insects appeared outside the house.

At the same time, Shangya began to learn Youlian's secret.

He drank human blood, raised insects and snakes, and was skilled in witchcraft and gu poison.

Shangya remembered how Youlian always stared at her as if he wanted to eat her alive. Terrified, she lay awake night after night, and in the end, she ran away.

Every night after escaping, Shangya was tormented by nightmares.

One night, she woke with a start. She thought she could smell the familiar scent of the young man and hear the pleasant chime of his silver bells.

The beautiful young man, pale-faced and gloomy, was leaning over her bedside, about to do something. But Shangya started crying first.

"Are you going to steam me or braise me, A-Lian?" Shangya was so frightened that tears streamed down her face. Furious and heartbroken, she cried, "I liked you so, so much, and all this time you were only with me because you wanted to eat me and keep me as emergency rations...!"

Youlian: ?

A beautiful, sickly, clingy young man from Miaojiang x a steady, single-minded, honest heroine

Blurb screenshot dated October 23, 2024

Theme: Eat well to win