Is the Ascetic Buddhist Prince Really Out of Reach? Yet He Breaks His Vows and Begs Me to Make Him Feel Good

Yun Xiu is a “living map” who carries the secret of the dragon veins. She is also the daughter of a disgraced minister, abandoned by her family. Only later does she learn that she is a lost royal heir. To win her freedom, she sneaks into the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda one night to steal a Buddhist relic, only to be captured on the spot by Xu Anji, the Great Yong dynasty’s holy monk. He cuts his fingertip and forcibly merges their bloodlines, binding them with a life-and-death taboo known as a “blood pact.” “Remember, your life belongs to the Buddhist order. If you so much as entertain a crooked thought, I’ll make you suffer for it.” From then on, she is confined to the holy monk’s meditation room. By day, she grinds ink and studies under him; late at night, he holds her fingertips and kisses them, unsettling his devout heart. But just as Xu Anji becomes ensnared in love, the possessive Crown Prince Xiao Che surrounds the temple with his troops, demanding to take away his “fiancée.” Before the Buddha, Xiao Che grips Yun Xiu by the waist and taunts him arrogantly: “Holy monk, you may be able to suppress the Buddhist relic, but this woman is coming with me to the Eastern Palace tonight!” As the dragon-vein totem hidden in their blood pacts awakens, power and desire spiral completely out of control. One is a cool, restrained Buddha who would slaughter his way through hell for her; the other, a brutal and devoted prince who would massacre an entire city for her. Seated on the crumbling dragon throne, Yun Xiu watches the two men lose their minds over her and curls her red lips into a faint smile. “I want this world. As for you two… I’ll choose whichever one of you behaves better.”