Thorn in the Vermilion Gate

Wei Yinzhao has a secret she would rather die than tell. The thousand gold blood can extend life and unlock prophecies, making all the court nobles stare at her living body. Her family was wiped out overnight, followed by five years of imprisonment. She changed her face and returned to the enemy father and sons under the name “Shen Ci’er”, becoming the most alluring Maid in the Nine-Bestowments Royal Mansion. Xie Da is aloof and ascetic, observant of propriety and self-disciplined like white jade before Buddha. Xie Er is arrogant, mad and ruthless, full of defiant spirit like a wildfire burning the plains. When she steps through these vermilion doors covered in hatred—One falls into mortal desires, his self-control completely collapsing. One willingly bends his back, making enemies of the entire world. The two brothers fight over her, protect her, in a turmoil of love and slaughter. But they do not know—This delicate and soft boneless body burns in the night. As the scarlet poison enters her blood, it feels like a hundred ants gnawing at her bones; she itches so much she pinches her wrists broken, yet still cannot suppress her trembling. Whoever falls in love first, loses first. She is a chess piece, and also a chess player. She is the poison, and also the antidote. When she returns to the vermilion doors, using herself as bait and painted bones as a scheme, she swears to settle the blood debt of her exterminated family, making the ghosts hiding behind the Painted Skin, white bones, and rouge reveal their true forms one by one. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Thorn in the Vermilion Gate — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠