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Bihan City

辟寒城

苍梧宾白 · Cang Wu Bin Bai · BC

COMPLETE · 99 Chapters + 2 Extras

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Synopsis

Six years ago, the kingdom of Longsha survived a war it had little hope of winning. Two hundred thousand troops from Yanyuan pressed against its borders, forcing the royal court to buy peace through alliances, hostages, marriages, concessions, and submission to the neighboring kingdom of Xiling. The armies eventually withdrew, but the compromises remained. When Longsha’s old king dies and a new ruler ascends the throne, Xiling sends Wei Fu, a brilliant young court official, across the border as Minister-Regent to help steady a kingdom still living with the consequences of that war.

Wei Fu is handsome, courteous, frighteningly clever, and remarkably talented at making complicated political problems look effortless. He is equally talented at making one particular man’s life impossible. Long before he became a court official, Wei Fu was a mute child in desperate circumstances, and the person who once saved him was Yugong Zhaoye, a prince of Longsha who grew into a formidable assassin and protector of the kingdom’s hidden world. When they meet again as adults, Wei Fu remembers exactly how important Yugong Zhaoye has always been to him. Yugong Zhaoye remembers the troublesome child he once rescued and somehow remains magnificently incapable of recognizing that the grown man relentlessly pursuing his company might be flirting with him.

Their reunion unfolds amid a much larger struggle for Longsha’s future. Wei Fu works in courtrooms, ministries, diplomatic meetings, and royal councils while Yugong Zhaoye moves through intelligence networks, secret organizations, dangerous investigations, and places where official authority cannot reach. Together they encounter suspicious deaths, assassinations, hidden identities, old family secrets, political marriages, maritime interests, royal succession problems, foreign pressure, buried grudges, and conspiracies whose roots reach back to the war that nearly destroyed the kingdom. As titles, loyalties, and governments change around them, both men become increasingly entangled not only in Longsha’s survival but in deciding what kind of country it should become.

Yet Bihan City is never content to remain solemn for long. Deadly assassins behave like exasperated relatives, brilliant ministers weaponize banquets and bureaucracy, royal diplomacy periodically degenerates into family drama, and some of the most politically dangerous people alive prove helpless against jealousy, terrible communication, and one shamelessly persistent Wei Fu. Around the central couple grows an ensemble of rulers, siblings, officials, spies, friends, and rivals whose relationships give the political story its warmth, absurdity, and emotional weight.

Beneath the court intrigue and international maneuvering is a story about choice. Wei Fu and Yugong Zhaoye first met when circumstances gave them very little control over their lives. Years later, they meet again as men capable of deciding whom to serve, where to belong, what obligations deserve their loyalty, and whom they want beside them. What begins with an old debt gradually becomes something chosen freely, a partnership tested by kingdoms, duty, separation, danger, and time. In a world where marriages can be treaties and people can become political currency, Bihan City asks what it means to choose one person simply because you love them.

Project Details

Author: Cang Wu Bin Bai / 苍梧宾白

Native Title: 辟寒城

Genre: Historical · Court Drama · Romance · Comedy · Mystery · Adult

Tags: Ancient China · Age Gap · Assassins · Childhood Connection · Reunion · Clever Protagonist · Cunning Protagonist · Smart Couple · Powerful Couple · Devoted Love Interests · Slow-Burn Romance · Oblivious Love Interest · Court Officials · Royalty · Princes · Court Politics · Kingdom Diplomacy · Political Intrigue · Schemes and Conspiracies · Political Marriage · Hostages · War Aftermath · Investigations · Mystery · Secret Organizations · Espionage · Hidden Identities · Identity Reveals · Martial Arts · Cross-Border Politics · Power Struggles · Familial Bonds · Brotherhood · Found Family · Loyalty · Mutual Protection · Long-Term Relationship · Character Growth · Comedy · Happy Ending

Table of Contents

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Chapters 1–25
Chapters 26–50
Chapters 51–75
Chapters 76–99
Extras

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