Spring Mountain Beneath the Setting Moon

Ming Yue had lived alone in the southern frontier for ten years. She was not only a gifted physician, but had also mastered the art of witchcraft and gu poisoning. The locals feared her magic so much that not a single man dared to ask for her hand. As a result, Ming Yue was already eighteen and still unmarried. One day, she found a badly injured man in a mountain valley and cared for him attentively for several days. When he awoke, his dark eyes flowed through Ming Yue's heart like a clear mountain spring, and she decided to make him her husband. But the man firmly refused. With no other choice, Ming Yue drugged him. On their wedding night, the man swallowed his humiliation and roared, “How dare you!” Ming Yue, drenched in sweat from the pain, soothed herself and him alike. “It's okay, it's okay. Just bear with it and it'll be over soon.” The man: “...”