After My Nemesis and I Grew Sick of Each Other

[Bratty young princess × sickly Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review]

--Story blurb--

Legend says that by the banks of the Yangtze stands a mountain called Wushan. It holds treasures, and mist shrouds its peaks all year round, concealing their true appearance from the people. In the sixth year of the Tianbao era, Emperor Shengyuan made a Miao woman from Wushan his consort. She brought with her to the capital a strange golden jade stone.

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At a banquet by the winding river, a young woman dies from poison. Yan Fengshi, Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, investigates and discovers that the poison is closely connected to the legendary jade that protects the Great Sheng dynasty.

But he soon learns that the jade’s current owner is none other than Xiao Jiao, the Xuancheng Commandery Princess, infamous and feared by everyone in Jinling.

At the same time, a secret buried for decades gradually comes to light...

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Xiao Jiao lost her mother when she was six. She never stopped searching for the truth about her mother’s death, until one day outside the prison, she heard with her own ears:

“Unless you enter the Cloudmist Mountain, how can you cleanse the immortal’s skin? Unless you cleanse the immortal’s skin, how can you attain endless joy?”

The words spoken by the condemned woman were the final words of her mother, Princess Changping.

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To uncover the truths they each seek, Xiao Jiao and Yan Fengshi set out for Wushan. Little do they know that the journey will be full of twists and dangers.

Hallucinogenic leaves, strange blood maples that feed on flesh and blood, and the voice in Xiao Jiao’s mind that keeps calling to her...

To survive, the two, who could barely stand the sight of each other, have no choice but to team up.

[Bonus scene]

“Lord Yan, you investigate me every day. Don’t tell me you want to be my husband?”

She tugged at his sleeve, but he brushed her hand away.

“Foolish and arrogant, you have no sense at all!”

With the blood moon overhead and ghostly shadows swaying in the secret passage, his bloodstained official robe brushed her cheek. Yet his voice was gentle.

“Don’t be afraid. I’m here.”

Xiao Jiao leaned against his chest and sneered. “What happened, Lord Yan? Don’t you think I’m foolish anymore?”

Reading guide:

1. The first part focuses on solving cases, while the later part features supernatural folklore. This is not traditional fantasy.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads’ first, happy ending.

---Upcoming story---

Eleven Years of Spring in Ashes

“I lived in Wangdu for eleven years, but only three nights truly stayed with me.”

“On the first night, I met her. On the second, I came to know her. On the third, I left her.”

When Xue Yusheng left Wangdu, it was night, and rain poured down like a waterfall. He turned back in the storm, but before he could take one last look at that slender figure, the soldiers escorting him shoved him into the vast, rainy night.

At the time, he did not yet know that the greatest turning point in his life was about to come.

He endured every torment in prison and risked his life fighting on the battlefield without once letting his expression change. Yet when he emerged from a pile of corpses and returned to Wangdu, he saw her dressed in red, hand in hand with another person as she entered the wedding hall.

At that moment, Xue Yusheng’s soul shattered.

Everyone in Wangdu knows that the newly powerful Xue Yusheng came from humble origins. He was the son of a gatekeeper at the Duke’s residence and was once imprisoned for violating a maid.

What they don’t know is that beneath the falling pear blossoms that year, a young woman once told him:

“Xue Yusheng, I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait and wait until the day you marry me.”

A long-suffering young general × a brilliant, noble-born young lady

Reading notes: The young woman in the blurb is the female lead.

The male lead’s imprisonment has another explanation.

Theme: Break free of fate and never give in.