The newly crowned top scholar accidentally swallowed the love gu I had meant for my absent husband.
To keep him alive, I had to share his bed every seven days until the antidote arrived.
What began as mutual resentment slowly turned dangerously tender—just as my husband, General Zhou Hanchuan, returned and recognized me as the woman he had never forgotten.
Now one man refuses to let me go, the other refuses to grant me a divorce, and I am trapped between two rivals who would sooner kill each other than give me up.