
Living to Suffer
活受罪 (Huo Shou Zui)
Tangstory
A doctor finds a wounded swordsman in a ruined shrine during a summer storm and saves the wrong man.
- Format
- novel
- Status
- completed
- Volumes
- 1 in English
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Synopsis
Ch'in Ching treats Shen Liangsheng as he would anyone bleeding in front of him. Shen Liangsheng is a weapon, not a patient, and what starts as mercy becomes a passionate and ruinous attachment. The first book of a reincarnation duology that continues in Till Death Us Do Part. One volume.
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- Also adapted: Audio drama.
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Is Living to Suffer completed?
Yes. The English edition is completed.
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