Crossing the Yunnan Insect Valley: Consort Xian's Survival Guide

All around me, women are wailing in grief; before me stands a deranged tyrant with a bronze sword in hand and a gloomy, sinister gaze. No system! No supernatural powers! As a helpless ordinary person, I survive by sheer acting skill, mastering the art that "cowardice taken to the extreme is courage," dancing on the blade's edge of a cruel tyrant. He is brutal, obsessive, and unhinged, and will stop at nothing to become an immortal. His Living Gu sorcery strikes terror into all who hear of it. I did not try to change his saintly heart, nor do I have any power to stand against him. I am merely an ordinary person who wants to live. Every time his gaze sweeps over me, it is a contest of life and death; every time he strokes my neck, I shudder with suffocating dread. Through utter obedience and flawless disguise, beside a throne piled with countless corpses, I have clawed out a path to becoming Consort. He regards human lives as blades of grass, and his methods are ruthless, so I become the most obedient mute bride at his side. I am forced to watch, up close, the bloody construction of the Mountain God Shrine of the Zhelong Mountain, and see with my own eyes countless people turned into Gu bait, able only to tremble and burrow into his arms. Years later, when a Mojin Commandant, having braved a thousand dangers, finally opens the Xian King's tomb and gazes upon the jade coffin... I rub my eyes, sit up inside the jade coffin, and timidly ask: "Um... Commander Hu, have you arrived? I've been holding it in for two thousand years..." — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Crossing the Yunnan Insect Valley: Consort Xian's Survival Guide — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠