Heroine: Can switch seamlessly between innocent white lotus and scheming green tea; beautiful, ruthless, and a little vixen.
Hero: Ruthless, calculating, and selfish; genuinely bad, with no redemption arc.
Ying Ge’er had been wandering the martial world until her former benefactor was falsely accused and imprisoned. She resolutely returned to the capital, but while running around trying to save him, a merchant named Li Mo appeared and insisted on taking her as his concubine.
His gentleness, courtesy, and thoughtfulness gradually won over Ying Ge’er, who had resisted him at first.
Then one day, she saw him with her own eyes, dressed in a crimson flying-fish uniform and holding a bloodstained embroidered spring sword, looking utterly cold-blooded. Someone beside her sneered, “His name isn’t Li Mo. He’s He Yan, Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.”
“Oh, and your benefactor died by his hand, too.”
Content warning: angst in the later chapters.
Super nice. I like it [already planted]