◎ Fake pariah · Real heartthrob · Male competition carnage
Nan Liujing hadn’t even wed yet when her groom died—
Pei Liuyu, the most pampered youngest son of the Pei clan, fell off a cliff and left no body behind while searching for a rare medicine for her.
At the funeral, Pei Liuyu’s family and friends looked at her as if she were an ominous object.
“Liuyu cherished you like a precious treasure,” his elder brother said calmly, yet every word cut like a knife. “Are you truly unwilling to accompany him for a journey on the road to the Yellow Springs?”
The princess who adored Pei Liuyu sneered, “This woman should be skinned, her tendons pulled, and her body hacked into ten thousand pieces to vent this fury.”
The young master of the Xiao clan, a close friend of Pei Liuyu, even drew his dagger, wanting to kill her with his own hands to satisfy his grudge.
That night, a fire in the tower pushed Nan Liujing into a corner.
Amidst the roaring flames, her snow-white skin contrasted with her black clothes; her hair was disheveled as she smiled brilliantly, like a seductive ghost from a painting.
“How could it be enough for me to see Liuyu alone?”
“Gentlemen… care to join me?”
–
In her dying moments, Nan Liujing released the Gu insect “Du’e,” binding her life to the three men who wanted her dead the most.
Forced by the Gu insect, not only could they not harm her in the slightest, but they found themselves uncontrollably drawn to her—craving her breath, yearning for her touch, and begging for her everything.
These high and mighty scions of nobility were forced to wag their tails like dogs before the lowly medicine slave they despised most…
It should have been a crushing humiliation that ground their pride to dust!
But gradually, Nan Liujing realized something was wrong.
The young master of the Xiao clan, who had repeatedly tried to put her to death, now climbed through her window every night, gripping her waist and whispering hoarsely against her ear in a hateful tone: “Do you do these things with them too?”
The head of the Pei clan—Pei Liuyu’s noble and refined brother, a man of supreme status—had a secret room in his study filled with her portraits. He pinned her against a painting and kissed her startled eyes: “Guess when this place was prepared?”
Even the “Princess Shou’an,” who had harassed her in every possible way, revealed himself to be a man. He painted her brows, applied her powder, and pinned flowers in her hair, holding her steady when she could barely stand as they bowed to Heaven and Earth: “Whether as a human or a ghost, I will haunt you from now on…”
Wait, what happened to the “crushing humiliation”?
Why did they seem… to be enjoying it?!
–
Nan Liujing was afflicted by a strange poison and had little time left.
“Du’e” was her only hope for survival—it couldn’t cure the poison, but it could make the person bound by the Gu contract die in her place.
She looked at the men fighting and scrambling to possess her and fell into deep thought.
Which one should she choose to be her scapegoat?
【Weak and calculating beauty with an overwhelming will to live】
【Cold General & High-Mountain Flower & Cross-dressing Boss】
Reading Tips:
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1v3, female lead is not a virgin (in relationship terms), male leads are. Male competition carnage.
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Purely romance-driven, not a “strong female lead” story.
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Female lead has impaired memory; her subjective perspective is not the whole truth. The male leads loved her before the Gu was planted; there is narrative trickery in the early stages.
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