Chapter 1 Chapter 1 "The seedlings used...
The Miao Youth Being Exploited is the Yandere Gu King
Text/Demon Swordsman
First release on June 24, 2025
Jiang Li woke up with a struggle.
Outside, the rain poured down, the dampness, chilling her to the bone. She felt a sticky sensation on her fingertips, like thick blood.
She dreamed of Yun Si again.
He looked at her with tearful eyes and full of grievance, but the next second he pulled out a dagger and stabbed it into her heart.
Jiang Li lied to him.
She agreed to marry him, but ran away on the eve of the wedding.
She remembered the scene that night.
Piles of bones, flesh that the poisonous insects had not eaten, flowing blood plasma... The harmless young man stood among the corpses with a smile on his face.
From then on, she was haunted by nightmares in which the docile boy bared his fangs and gnawed her until nothing was left but bones.
I kept asking myself over and over again: "Why did you lie to me?"
I opened my eyes and the sunlight was dazzling.
Jiang Li forgot how he fell asleep last night.
"elder sister."
The voice sounded against the back of her neck.
Jiang Li froze, his blood instantly solidifying.
The sound haunted her nightmares for days and nights.
She turned her head sharply.
Yun Si was lying beside her, looking aggrieved, with red eyes.
She dreamed again... She closed her eyes in despair.
"How did you get here, sister? I've been looking for you for a long time." He reached out and habitually picked up a strand of hair from her chest, wrapping it around his fingertips and playing with it.
Jiang Li stared at the finger, waiting for the dream to collapse.
"Sister hasn't answered me yet." His voice sank, with a sticky and oppressive feeling, and penetrated into her ears.
She ignored him and turned over.
His cold arms instantly tightened around her waist, his hot chest pressed against her back, his breath against her neck. Like a venomous snake constricting its prey, she felt a little breathless.
"Why doesn't my sister want me anymore?" He felt a chill of grievance.
Jiang Li was so annoyed that he suddenly tried to pry the hand around his waist.
During the movement, her hair was pulled hard.
pain.
It's not a dream...
Jiang Li suddenly froze, a chill sweeping through his whole body.
Yun Si is chasing after me...
Her face turned cold and she was about to question him, but out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a flash of golden light from his waist.
Golden Silkworm Gu...
Jiang Li's breathing stopped and his head buzzed.
The owner of the golden silkworm Gu is the Gu King of Miaojiang.
According to rumors, the Gu King is cruel and vicious, and has killed people like crazy.
She remembered something.
When Yun Si was slaughtering the people in the village, excitement flashed across his eyes...
It wasn't her illusion.
His obedience, gentleness, and thoughtfulness...are all illusions.
Boom boom boom!
My heart was pounding against my chest.
Her breath hitched.
She watched the aggrieved look in Yun Si's eyes gradually fade away, and his eyes gradually darkened.
He calmly pushed the poking golden silkworm back into the Gu box.
Then, he raised his eyes and looked at her.
His eyes were direct, deep, and filled with naked scrutiny.
That look peeled off the familiar disguise inch by inch and became unfamiliar.
——Until, I can no longer see the shadow of the past...
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The scattered moonlight spread across the bluestone slabs, blurring her vision.
Maybe, I'm hungry.
Jiang Li licked her cracked lips, and a fishy sweetness spread from the tip of her tongue to her entire mouth. Jiang Li was imprisoned in this dark room, with cold iron chains binding her limbs.
Cangshui Village holds a sacrifice to the mountain god every ten years, and the person chosen as the saint will become a sacrifice to the mountain god.
In this way, we pray for peace.
The elder said that the mountain god chose her.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, she had no time to resist. After being taken into the ancestral hall, Jiang Li was held there like a prisoner, day and night.
The ancestral hall was on a remote mountaintop. No one was willing to bring food to Jiang Li, and she had not had a drop of water for three days.
People praise the bright moon for its flawlessness and worship it as a god.
But the moonlight fell, but never shone on her.
Jiang Li has been called a disaster star since he was a child.
The first cry in the world was accompanied by the news of his mother's death.
People called her the mother-killer.
Her impression of her mother stemmed from the fact that she was not a faithful woman. Her mother was not married when she became pregnant, and no one knew who her father was.
She grew up amidst scolding and charity.
The insults were given by the people in the village, and the alms came from a woman named Tu Niang.
She is a crazy woman.
She is beautiful, serious and likes to wear white.
She gave her a place to live and food to eat.
But my childhood memories are filled with sticky blood.
On the sixteenth of every month, the usually missing Tu Niang would always appear on time, walking towards her with a dagger in one hand and a bowl in the other.
She slashed Jiang Li's wrist with a dagger.
The blood will flow from the wound and fall into the bowl drop by drop.
She is said to be vicious. If it weren't for her, Jiang Li would have died long ago.
Although she is kind-hearted, Jiang Li makes Yueyue suffer this torture.
When she was six years old, Jiang Li ran away from Tu Niang's yard and sought help from the elders of Cangshui Village. However, after hearing Jiang Li's name, the elders not only did not help her, but sent Jiang Li back to Tu Niang.
Tu Niang was beautiful, so people came to her defense without saying a word.
The final result was that Jiang Li deliberately framed Tu Niang and harbored evil intentions at such a young age.
After the person left, Jiang Li looked frightened.
Tu Niang looked at her and said something she would never forget: "They won't believe that I'm a lunatic. But who would care if you were the scourge of your mother and a lunatic?"
Jiang Li realized a truth: the human heart is a blade, innocence is paper, and prejudice is a sharp weapon.
Afterwards, Tu Niang did not punish her, but just watched her more closely, and she could see Tu Niang every day.
After taking blood, she supported herself, nearly fainting, and followed Tu Niang to an unfamiliar cave. Tu Niang placed the bowl of blood on the ground, and countless poisonous insects appeared in an instant, drinking it all in one gulp.
Driven by curiosity, she wanted to find out.
When she was about to leave, she felt a sudden pain in her ankle.
Looking down, she saw a black snake wrapped around her leg, thicker than her arm.
She bit her lower lip, overcame the trembling in her hands, grabbed the snake and swung it hard. The snake left her leg and was thrown somewhere unknown.
When I came to my senses, Tu Niang was gone.
She forgot how she went down the mountain that day, and her weak body fell to the ground after returning to Tu Niang's yard.
When she woke up, she noticed a hint of worry in Tu Niang's eyes.
Jiang Li... felt a little happy, his heart was pounding.
Tu Niang's voice was still cold: "You should take care of yourself in the next few months."
When she thought she was finally cared about, he heard the conversation between the doctor and Tu Niang.
"If I continue to draw blood every month, I can only last a year or two at most."
She was stunned. She thought the word death was far away from her.
She is going to die.
But she was only six years old.
So the look in Tu Niang's eyes wasn't worry, but pity?
"No, she can't die!" Tu Niang's voice was a little excited. "If she dies, what will happen to my Gu! She can't die, she can't die...!!"
Jiang Li's heart grew colder as he listened to the increasingly insane voice. The anticipation and joy that had just sprouted in his heart were trampled to pieces.
insanity.
Tu Niang wants to use her blood to feed the Gu.
I was just afraid that she would die and I wouldn’t be able to take her blood.
She understood, but her eyes didn't understand, and they couldn't stop the water from flowing out. She couldn't wipe it clean, no matter how hard she tried, the water just kept flowing out...
She won't care about Tu Niang anymore, absolutely.
During the months without blood draws, Jiang Li recovered well. She secretly read Tu Niang's book and learned what Gu was and what Tu Niang was pursuing.
The book says that not everyone can learn the art of witchcraft, and Tu Niang is just a witch breeder.
Jiang Li learned the witchcraft that Tu Niang didn't know.
When she was nine years old, she used the witchcraft that she had practiced countless times.
Tu Niang was killed by her own hands when she was taking blood.
No one would force her to draw blood again.
After the news of Tu Niang's death spread, many people from the village came to express their condolences, most of whom expressed their pity that such a beautiful woman died before she got married.
Jiang Li cried so hard that day that she almost fainted. Everyone saw this and said that Tu Niang had taught her well and that Jiang Li was a pitiful child. No one called her a disaster anymore.
This was the first lesson she learned from Tu Niang, and it was indeed useful.
The scab on the wrist was not opened again, and it quickly formed a scar. Over time, it gradually faded, leaving only a noticeable white mark.
She wanted to take another look at the hideous scar, but the iron cuffs on her wrists blocked it tightly.
Looking out the door again, the moonlight was dim.
Jiang Li felt that she was really going to die this time, either starving to death or being killed tomorrow.
Being sacrificed alive, what kind of death is that?
Tick-tock...
There was a sound of dripping water in the quiet air, which she heard more clearly when she closed her eyes.
It was more like the sound Tu Niang made when she took her blood...
Ding-ling, ding-ling...
A voice that didn't belong here interrupted him, and Jiang Li suddenly woke up.
The moonlight outside the house suddenly disappeared, and the house suddenly darkened and fell into darkness.
Ding-a-ling. Ding-a-ling.
The sound of bells.
Getting closer and closer.
Her heart beat faster, anticipating the source of the sound.
With a gust of wind, the moonlight reappeared, even dazzling.
Her vision was half obscured.
The other half turned out to be a person.
Alive, human!
The figure had his back to her, and probably because the moonlight was glaring at his eyes, he didn't notice her. Jiang Li was really nervous now.
How to avoid scaring people away.
She opened her mouth but said nothing.
She held her breath and gently moved the chain on her wrist.
The person in front of him noticed the movement and turned around.
Jiang Li clearly saw that the man's pupils dilated for a moment and he was frightened.
"Don't be afraid..." Jiang Li's voice was weak and soft, and there was naturally some intention in it.
Fortunately, no one was scared away.
"Who are you!" He took a step back in horror.
Jiang Li made sure that he heard it correctly, it was the voice of a living man.
"Why are you locked up?" The boy noticed the chains on Jiang Li's limbs.
"Is there any water..." She was really dying of thirst.
The boy paused and said, "There's some outside. I'll get it for you."
Seeing that the man was about to leave, Jiang Li tried his best to reach out and grab his sleeve: "Don't..."
The boy was stunned: "What do you mean don't..."
"Don't go."
"I won't leave. I'll get you some water."
"What if you don't come back... I don't want to be alone." Jiang Li's voice became smaller and smaller.
The man seemed to be genuinely trying to get her some water, but she wasn't 100% sure.
The man heard the uneasiness in Jiang Li's voice and reached out to touch the back of Jiang Li's hand with his fingertips to comfort her, so as not to be too offensive. "I promise you, I won't leave."
Jiang Li still held onto the clothes and didn't let go. She turned to look at Feng Tai and said, "There's water there too. We don't have to go out."
"good."
Jiang Li's excessive dependence did not make the man feel uncomfortable.
He took the water from the table and handed it to Jiang Li.
Jiang Li slumped down on the ground, picked up the water and started drinking.
While drinking water, Jiang Li looked him over.
Judging from his figure, he should be under 20 years old, and the clothes he is wearing... seem to be from Miaojiang.
Seeing that she was drinking so quickly, the young man asked, "I have some bread on me, do you want some?"
Jiang Li nodded quickly: "Eat!"
Jiang Li took the cake from his hand, not caring whether it was poisonous or not, and broke off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.
While chewing, he praised: "It's delicious."
The boy seemed very satisfied and smiled at her.
Caught off guard, Jiang Li broke off a piece of cake and stuffed it directly into his mouth. In his surprise, her voice rang out again: "It's delicious, you should try it too."
Jiang Li stared at him. The boy chewed the cake between his teeth, and it rolled down his throat and he swallowed it.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The cake is non-toxic.
She quietly hid the uneaten crumbs on the ground behind her, and then calmly took a big bite of the new cake.
Not letting him leave is false, not drinking water out of sight is true.
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