Xuan Xin grew up among mountains and rivers, cut off from the world, carefree and without a worry.
That was until she rescued a handsome young man, as beautiful as a celestial being, by the river. At first sight, she fell for him and gave him her heart.
She patiently cared for him and shared every kind of romantic intimacy with him. As she wished, they took heaven and earth as their matchmaker and were married in a formal ceremony.
Three months later, she became pregnant. But alongside the arrival of their precious child came the Imperial Guards, descending from the skies.
He called himself "I," the imperial pronoun, and held her as he asked her to return with him to the capital. He promised to marry her with all the proper betrothal gifts and ceremonies.
She agreed.
But after she was forced to bow and scrape before the empress, and learned that he loved someone else, she set a great fire and burned all the splendor and coldness of this world to the ground.
Including herself, and the child in her womb, who was nearly ready to be born.
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Qi Yao, the newly enthroned emperor of the Yue Dynasty, went mad over a woman who had died.
He even razed the imperial palace to the ground and searched every inch of its ruins.
He went so far as to lead his troops against all the surrounding small kingdoms, until he found the secluded paradise where he had first met the woman.
Only then did Qi Yao learn that Xuan Xin's ancestors had practiced the art of Gu for generations, and that she was the most gifted Gu Saint in centuries. Her Gu worms had long since filled his body.
For all these years, she had known every detail of his words and actions.
Yet she had never let it show, watching him as if he were a joke.
Reader's Guide:
The female lead is selfish and holds grudges, so this is a revenge story with a groveling arc rated ten and above, with no upper limit.
The story of an emperor with a single-minded focus on his career, thoroughly tamed into a love-addled slave.
Theme: Love yourself and live well.
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