[Young widow x teenage assassin]
Sui An is a young widow.
On the very first day of her marriage, her husband died in an accident while hunting in the mountains.
The villagers all thought she brought bad luck, so she lived alone in the sparsely populated western part of the village.
Two mud-brick houses, a small plot of farmland, and the silver left by her late husband, whom she'd seen only once on their wedding night. Her life was dull and money was tight, but she could occasionally afford a little wine. Her one wish was to save enough to open a tavern and run it herself. Little by little, life settled into a modest but pleasant routine...
Then one day, a handsome young man collapsed at her doorstep, barely clinging to life. He was more beautiful than anyone she'd ever seen, so even though she knew she shouldn't, Sui An took him home and nursed him back to health.
It was a long time before she learned that the person who had been as obedient as a puppy around her was the very assassin feared throughout the martial world, with a bounty large enough to keep her fed and clothed for eight lifetimes.
