[Wuxia Crossover] A Guide to Binding Jianghu Rivals

A handsome, martial-arts-skilled, dark-hearted on the inside top scorer gong x a silly, innocent, money-loving lucky koi shou who doesn't know when he's being bad

"[Li Long] A Guide to Bonding with Your Jianghu Nemesis"

On how to join forces with your archenemy and bring down the entire martial world

One freezing winter, Long Xiaoyun accidentally saved a man. When the man woke up, Long Xiaoyun learned that he was none other than Li Xunhuan, the sworn enemy the Mud Bodhisattva had prophesied would ruin his family and leave him dead without a whole corpse!

Long Xiaoyun couldn't wait to dump the man. But the man clung to him like chewing gum!

The man swore to repay his kindness, insisted they become sworn brothers, and even insisted on taking Long Xiaoyun home with him.

Long Xiaoyun tried every way he could to refuse, but...

He couldn't.

The man even wanted to give Long Xiaoyun his fiancee. Long Xiaoyun figured the other man was probably running a pig-butchering scam and firmly turned him down.

Meanwhile, the seemingly gentle and demure fiancee brought him a pot of poisoned wine, hoping to poison Long Xiaoyun to death.

Who could have guessed that after drinking the poison, he and Li Xunhuan would kiss their way to breaking the curse and end up tied together by an inescapable red thread of "marriage"? The miracle doctor said this thing was called a Life-and-Death Knot, and they'd have to eat and sleep together for a hundred days!

Long Xiaoyun's hand trembled slightly. Heaven wants me dead!

Worse still, his "brother in life and death," Li Xunhuan, was a mystery from head to toe. He was hiding a fragment of the former dynasty's Golden Thread Armor, bore a Plum Blossom Brand scar on his back, and could get drunk, dance with his sword in the snow, and cleave a three-zhang-tall character for "wrong" into the air.

The 108th time Long Xiaoyun pulled him out of a crowd of assassins, he finally understood: this wasn't a sworn brother. He was clearly a calamity sent by the Heavenly Dao to torment him!

The Jianghu doesn't care about your love and hate. The Azure Dragon Society has its eye on the Imperial Jade Seal, the Blood Robe Tower covets the Flower Treasury, and even that little brat Long Xiaoyun dares to raise a poisoned dagger and shout, "I'll stab Uncle Li to death and put Dad on the throne!" Best of all, a blind fortune-teller pinched his fingers and declared, "Your fates are tangled together worse than a seamstress's thread. My advice is to be buried together."

So the Jianghu Daily's headlines change every day:

"Shocking! Li, the Top Scorer, Cuts Out His Heart and Draws Blood for His Nemesis"

"Breaking! Fourth Master Long Sneaks into the Imperial Palace at Night Because He's Afraid of the Dark and Wants Someone to Sleep with Him"

"Urgent! Peacock Manor Has Collapsed! See Whom the Top Scorer Shielded from an Arrow"

When the joint burial coffin from eighteen years ago is really dug up, when the Imperial Jade Seal shines in the Long family's ancestral grave, and when Li Xunhuan's throwing knife veers away from his opponent's throat for the hundredth time, the entire martial world finally goes mad: What kind of tragic love story are you two acting out here?!

So...

Can this pair of nemeses sort out the wedding outfit embroidered with mandarin ducks in the coffin before they blow up the imperial mausoleum, anger Bai Xiaosheng to death, and wreak havoc on all thirty-six sects?

(Friendly warning: This novel is extremely melodramatic, with chaotic logic and character relationships. Aside from Long Xiaoyun and Li Xunhuan, all kinds of couples are thrown into the mix. Martial arts characters from all eras appear in this mash-up world. If you can handle that, buckle up and hold on tight. Let's start from the beginning...)

Theme: Do good deeds and keep a good heart