After the Daoist Prodigy Was Struck by a Love Curse

Novel Blurb:

Fang Xinyan was born with a fate that brings calamity, dooming everyone close to him.

So his master abandoned him as a child in the perilous depths of Miaojiang.

There was another boy in the village who was also seen as ill-omened: Yan Zhanqiu. He couldn't speak the Han language or use gu, and everyone treated him coldly.

Fang Xinyan saw him as one of his own, nestled in his arms and calling him "big brother." "We'll depend on each other for the rest of our lives."

Yan Zhanqiu believed him.

He had always lived a hard life, hated by everyone. Then, suddenly, someone came into his world and treated him with affection. He fell for Fang Xinyan completely.

But he had lied to Fang Xinyan: he could use gu and speak the Han language. The one thing he hadn't lied about was that he loved him.

The young Daoist was beautiful, and Yan Zhanqiu's older brother, Yan Juechuan, liked him too. Unlike Yan Zhanqiu, Yan Juechuan was the chieftain's cherished favorite and could have anything he wanted. Now he'd forced Fang Xinyan to become his "child bride."

"You should call him sister-in-law," Yan Juechuan declared, staking his claim.

He never could have imagined that Yan Zhanqiu would secretly grow intimate with this so-called "sister-in-law" every day behind his back.

Yan Zhanqiu hated that Fang Xinyan belonged to someone else. He thought it was time for Yan Juechuan to die.

At last, he began taking action against them all: killing his brother, forcing his way into the chieftain's position... Just as he was about to succeed, Fang Xinyan left the Miao village.

Later, Fang Xinyan joined the most powerful Daoist sect, and Yan Zhanqiu was forgotten amid the dazzling world beyond the mountains.

Yan Zhanqiu could only wait in the mountains, crossing seas of blood and stepping over mountains of corpses, becoming the supreme ruler as he waited for Fang Xinyan to return.

He waited ten years.

Ten years later, Fang Xinyan returned to the mountains of Miaojiang to save his gravely ill senior brother, the one he had always cherished.

Danger suddenly struck in the forest. As Fang Xinyan lay badly wounded, a figure both strange and familiar seized him and held him tight.

The boy who had once been treated with cold contempt had become the chieftain who ruled all of Miaojiang.

Yan Zhanqiu locked him in a dark chamber and laughed, his voice low and dangerous. "Fang Xinyan, we promised to depend on each other for the rest of our lives. Why did you break your promise?"

"Do you know what happens to those who betray me?"

Looking at the chains around his ankles, Fang Xinyan trembled. "How are you any different from Yan Juechuan?!"

Yan Zhanqiu said, "I love you more than he does."

Fang Xinyan kicked him in the chest.

Yan Zhanqiu grabbed his ankle. "Looks like I'll have to add another chain."

A person can be chained up, but their heart cannot.

But gu can do anything.

There isn't a kind of gu Yan Zhanqiu can't use. Since Fang Xinyan won't behave, he'll have to resort to other methods.

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A seemingly innocent but secretly wicked, obsessive Miaojiang chieftain top x A delicate, naive Daoist prodigy bottom

Theme: Learning to love