My Archrival Married Me After I Died

[The entire text has been thoroughly edited. Pirated copies may contain plot errors or omissions, for which I take no responsibility. Creating this work takes effort, so please support the official version. Thank you!] Weibo: @Jinjiang Yu Heshi. Feel free to request all kinds of bonuses! [Historical fantasy about humans and ghosts, enemies-to-lovers, mutual redemption] Before her death, Shen Jinluan, Empress of the Great Wei, hated General Gu Xichao with all her heart. They had known each other since they were young. Bound by the blood feud between their families, they fought for a lifetime. She personally set a trap that had him exiled to the northern frontier, while she herself wasted away. In the end, he sent her to her death with a bowl of poison. She had spent her life exhausting herself for her family and country, but after her death she was slandered as a demon empress, condemned by everyone, and cursed by the masses. She was denied burial in the imperial mausoleum and had no grave of her own. Had someone not offered three sticks of incense on her behalf, her soul would have long since scattered. Then one day, amid a great snowfall, her wandering spirit encountered Gu Xichao once more. Ten years had passed. The once-invincible God of War, renowned for his ruthless victories, was dressed in battered armor, hunted by others, and at the end of his road. The ghostly empress, herself with nowhere left to turn, appeared before him. Her bloodstained, pale robes brushed the dulled blade of the general's sword. "My unresolved grievance keeps me from the afterlife. I wish to make a bargain with you, General." She never expected that after their bargain was struck, this once cold-hearted enemy would stop at nothing to fight his way into the capital, avenge her, and help her reach the afterlife. Gu Xichao was born into a prestigious family. He made a name for himself when he was young, spent half his life living recklessly, and rose to the highest ranks of government, holding the world in his power. So everyone lamented that the demon empress had ruined him, leaving him disgraced. At the height of his power, he abandoned everything, journeyed to the northern frontier, and lived out his days alone. General Gu did not worship gods or Buddha, and he did not believe in ghosts. Yet every time it snowed, the general would burn three sticks of incense before the demon empress's memorial tablet. For ten years, he burned incense on snowy nights, waiting in vain for her lonely spirit to return. And at the end, when he was trapped among enemy forces and on the brink of death, it was that same lonely spirit She had already been cleared of her false accusations, yet had not gone to the afterlife. Still dressed in bloodstained white, she crossed a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, summoned countless ghost soldiers, and traveled a thousand miles to save him. He fought until his strength was spent, his shoulder armor soaked red, and asked in a low voice: "Do you still have an unresolved grievance?" "I do." She wiped the blood from his face and smiled. "I want to ask you to burn incense for me for the rest of your life." #Snow across a thousand mountains, peach blossoms for a hundred miles, ten years between life and death, a lifetime of obsession [Please read] [Important] Happy ending! Happy ending! Happy ending! 1. The leads are not a bickering couple who flirt with each other. They are on opposing sides, love and hate each other, and truly have a grudge between them, with hidden circumstances. They have genuinely tried to kill each other, more than once. Please read with caution if this bothers you. 2. The main characters are a human and a ghost. The heroine is a spirit for the first part of the story, but will later have a physical body. 3. This is not purely a romance. The plot is substantial and tightly connected, with a little journeying and a little mystery and investigation. 4. Chapter comments are open. There are plenty of sweet moments and heartbreak in the story, so feel free to boldly speculate about the plot. 5. The story's lore about souls draws on Taoist works such as "Seven Tablets in a Cloudy Satchel" and "The Master Who Embraces Simplicity," as well as supernatural tales and legends such as "Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang," "What the Master Would Not Discuss," "Notes from the Yuewei Hermitage," and "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio." Please add my upcoming historical romance, "A Thousand Tribulations," to your favorites. An ancient-style romance with an infinite rebirth premise: two powerful leads caught in a loop, love and hate, a cat-and-mouse game, and working together to break the cycle. [Blurb] Meng Wushuang is the palace's foremost secret guard. Skilled and living under an assumed identity, she is just waiting to come of age, leave the palace, and regain her freedom. But she becomes trapped on the day of the Shangyuan Festival Every time she wakes, there's a dead Turkic man in front of her. Then, after the copper bells beneath the eaves ring three times, Pei Du, a junior minister of the Court of Judicial Review, bursts in and arrests her. No matter how hard she schemes to evade capture, she can never escape her inevitable death. On her ninth rebirth, Meng Wushuang stakes everything on one last gamble. As soon as Pei Du arrives, she throws herself into his arms, trembling uncontrollably and weeping as she cries: "Lord Pei, I didn't kill him. I'm just an unarmed civilian. Please save me..." The man, who should have been meeting her for the first time, suddenly chuckles and deftly moves aside the blade she's hidden behind her back. "Why aren't you calling me Pei Lang this time?" "Last time, that trick made me take seventeen hidden arrows for you." * Everyone knows that Pei Du, the Grim Reaper, is cold-blooded and merciless, the sharpest blade in the hands of the Empress. No one knows that he once had a fiancée he'd never met, yet treasured above all else. Back then, the Meng family was convicted of a crime. His bride-to-be returned his betrothal gifts and died alone on the road to exile. Pei Du dug up the ground for miles around, only to bring back a handful of bloodstained earth. From that day on, the living Grim Reaper, ruthless by day, held her memorial tablet in his arms as he slept each night. Nine years later, Pei Du was ordered to pursue the fugitive who had assassinated the Turkic prince. During their struggle, he slashed open the fugitive's collar The jade ring dangling at her neck was the very betrothal gift he'd given his fiancée when he was young. * On her final loop, surrounded by pursuing soldiers and with nowhere left to run, Meng Wushuang closed her eyes in despair. In an instant, a slash cut down the countless arrows flying toward her, and Pei Du shielded her with his body. His long, bloodstained fingers lifted the jade ring at her collarbone. He pressed close to her, their temples touching. "Since you kept my betrothal gift, we should live and die together." #Only through reincarnation as our matchmaker and life and death as our betrothal gift can we recognize each other #Every time he willingly dies for her, it's for the long-awaited reunion in the next life Theme: Face death and find life.