[Historical fiction only, no transmigration, no rebirth, mutual healing] (Domestic power struggles make up one fifth of the story)
Set in a time of turmoil, in an era resembling the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms after the Tang dynasty, this is a story of a good-for-nothing peasant girl and a ruthless assassin who save each other.
...Closer, closer. She thought she could see a face... That face was surrounded by a golden glow, like a celestial being's. A pair of dark eyes gazed at her, gazed at her...
“Immortal... big brother, have you come to take me away...?”
She murmured a few words, then weakly closed her eyes...
It was a relief to die. Her body felt light, no longer restrained, no longer cold, no longer in pain...
The male and female leads had a remarkable chance encounter as children, but fatefully lost touch. They unexpectedly met again years later, and only many years after that did they realize that each had always been the most tender string in the other's heart.
