Chapter 141
Faced with the Sovereign’s fury, the assembled officials could only mutter timidly among themselves. No one was willing to stick […]
The traitorous general Gu Mang was returning to his homeland. Everyone wanted to see him dead, and it was said that the one who hated him most was his former best friend—the cold and ascetic Young Master Mo.
The rumours said: Young Master Mo prepared three hundred and sixty-five methods of torture to interrogate him with, just waiting to try them out on Gu Mang. They were so varied it was more than enough to toy with him for a year without repetition.
Except these rumours were very quickly forbidden by Young Master Mo. The reason given was that they described him as a lunatic, and were severely inconsistent with reality.
So what was the truth?
The truth was even more unspeakable—
Mo Xi’s identity: the most abstinent commander of the empire.
His relationship with the traitor Gu Mang: they’d slept together before.
Faced with the Sovereign’s fury, the assembled officials could only mutter timidly among themselves. No one was willing to stick […]
This secret was truly beyond anything Mo Xi had expected. For a moment, he was completely speechless—Old Lord Sovereign had
When Mo Xi returned to the residence, Gu Mang was in the study, reading and writing. The small vermilion-lacquered window
Two days later. Daze City. Night. The clear, resonant notes of a qin flowed out from the residence of the
Outside Daze City When the rising sun pierced through the clouds and a faint red glow spilled across the earth,
After a long silence, Mo Xi suddenly sat up. “Go to sleep. I’ll go first—” Before he could finish, Gu
After their intimacy, their hearts were pounding, and the air around them seemed unbearably hot. Everything else seemed to have
Daze was a city of rain. By the time Gu Mang finished counting the grain and provisions, the sky had
“By the way, Mo Xi, there’s something I want to tell you.” “What?” Gu Mang said, “I saw Murong Lian
Mo Xi raised a hand and cut him off. “…When did I ever sleep with your niece?” “You—you still refuse
“Report—!” Inside the Governor’s Residence, the Imperial Preceptor raised his eyes faintly at the sound. The music beneath his fingertips
The last trace of blood-red afterglow on the horizon sank into silence, and night had already descended. Gu Mang stopped
Gu Mang flew across the roof ridges and eaves, breathing heavily. The night wind brushed against his black robes. Beneath
Over there, Gu Mang and the State Preceptor were still locked in fierce combat. Over here, Murong Lian did not
Seeing this, Murong Lian was afraid something might go wrong on the battlefield. He tightened his grip around the brocade
Only the two of them remained in the tent. Mo Xi walked to the bed and sat down beside Gu
Black crows cawed noisily beside the riverbank, startled into flight from the fir forest, flapping their wings as they scattered
Although Gu Mang followed Murong Lian forward, he was puzzled and surprised that Murong Lian was going to see him.
Gu Mang clutched his head, waves of dizziness surging before his eyes. Concealing it from others… Taking the surname Lin…
Inside the treatment room. A tall, slender man dressed in black stood beside Gu Mang’s bed. He held a curved