Silver Butterfly Gu

Runaway princess x crazy young beauty from Miaojiang

Before Tan Long was born, a court diviner predicted that the child in the consort's womb would rule the realm. But when the emperor saw that the newborn was a girl, he dismissed the prophecy. The crown prince, however, took it to heart.

More than a decade later, the emperor died. The newly enthroned crown prince immediately ordered the princess hunted down.

Tan Long fled day and night all the way to the southern borderlands. She was lucky to meet a boy covered in silver ornaments and wearing his hair in little braids along the way. Otherwise, she would have died by an assassin's blade.

The boy was beautiful and skilled in using Gu, but his pitch-black eyes looked so clear that they seemed almost empty.

She praised him as a formidable Gu master, but the boy shook his head in confusion and said he wasn't a Gu master. He was Gu.

There was a secret tale about the world: the royal family of the southern borderlands fed infants to Gu and created a Gu-bearer called the Silver Butterfly Gu.

Another rumor said the Silver Butterfly Gu was worth a million soldiers, and whoever possessed it would rule the realm.

So Tan Long took the boy's hand and said, "From now on, we're good friends."

It shouldn't be a problem for a good friend to help her take the throne, right?

She would make the diviner's prophecy come true.

The boy was a little simple-minded, knowing nothing about the ways of the world. He couldn't tell sincerity from deception, or truth from lies. He liked licking her neck and palm, and even if he suffered a terrible injustice, one kiss was enough to make him roll over and show her his belly.

Tan Long simply couldn't think of him as a person. She treated him like a powerful little kitten.

But gradually, she realized she was wrong. The boy simply didn't understand matters of love.

Before he understood, he was a fool. After he understood, he was a madman.

And becoming the master of a madman comes at a price.

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