Song of Xizhou

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[Blurb]

■She was once the daughter of his enemy, his lifelong foe. But later, she became the woman in his heart and the wife by his side.■

After offering a plan to destroy the Yuezhi at the age of ten, Huaisu has the same nightmare night after night.

In the dream, she is the heroine of a melodramatic erotic novel, and the hero is a prince of a fallen kingdom disguised as a bodyguard. He deceives and seduces her, sharing her bed every day, until he leads enemy troops to the city gates.

On their wedding night, she drinks poison in bitter resentment, but he only sneers:

"That woman was nothing but a pawn. Why would I regret using her?"

When she wakes, Huaisu makes up her mind: this time, she will be the one moving the pieces.

So that night, a handsome young man in black comes bearing a blade, shattering the moonlight as he enters. Huaisu puts on a tearful act, sobbing pitifully on the outside, while secretly tricking him into swearing a blood pact and making him serve her.

But the side effect of this blood pact... By day, he is a blade in her hand. By night, he pins her against the window, his breath hot as he murmurs, "The princess is aching too, isn't she?"

Huaisu gives him a knowing smile and lightly takes hold of him. "Use every last bit of what you have. Understand?"

The court officials all praise her for taming the fiercest falcon in the desert.

Little do they know that she has always kept a clear head, while he has fallen deeper with every step.

On the wedding night that marks the blood pact's end, he rules Xizhou and welcomes her as his queen with a procession of wedding finery stretching for miles.

Having learned every detail of his plans to lay siege to the city, Huaisu changes into her wedding gown and switches the poisoned wine in advance, waiting for him to deliver the line he has long prepared:

"Allow me to introduce myself again. My full name is Huo Yin Bilge Sapar."

"The young prince of the Yuezhi, whose kingdom fell because of the clever plan the princess came up with when she was a child."

But why doesn't he say those words? Instead, the moment she tips her head back and drains her cup, he lunges forward, his eyes wide with anguish, tears of blood falling like pearls.

On the day the Yuezhi fell, Huo Yin always thought he would hate Yeliang for the rest of his life.

But five years after the death of Yeliang's third princess, he not only forgave the kingdom of Yeliang, he searched for her everywhere, from the highest heavens to the depths of the underworld, even trying to summon her spirit.

After countless moments of heart-wrenching grief, he finally sees her.

But she is in a brothel, laughing over spring wine with a male courtesan, without sparing him a glance.

The moment he bursts through the door, everyone assumes he is about to slaughter them all.

Who could have guessed that the Xizhou Cult King, famed for his arrogance and pride and for never showing his emotions, would clutch the hem of her clothes, his eyes rimmed in red, his voice hoarse as he kneels and begs:

"Marry me again. Please, don't leave."

[Bonus Scene]

Everyone knows that Huo Yin, the Xizhou Cult King, has avoided women since he was young.

No one knows that in the dead of night, he once caught her slender, pale ankle, slowly fastening a pure gold shackle around it and keeping her trapped among the embroidered pillows as they whispered and kissed.

"Back then, you said we should use every last bit of what we had. Now... even if you don't want to, you'll have to."

▼Reading Guide▼

1. A scheming, dark-hearted beauty × a deranged, possessive wolfish man (both have no previous romantic partners)

2. A tale of love and hate, with sworn enemies becoming bedchamber rivals

3. Old-school melodramatic angst: she runs, he pursues, and she can't escape

Theme: Two flawed souls save each other, learning to love along the way.