[Stoic Imperial Guard × easygoing assassin | Enemies to lovers | Saving each other | Light ensemble cast]
He gave her a place to return to, and she gave him a place in this world.
Jiang Lin, the greatest assassin in the martial world, goes by the codename “Shadowless.” No one has ever survived his blade. Shen Mo, the commander of the Imperial Guard, is known as a master detective and is utterly impartial.
They should have been mortal enemies, but a chance encounter on a snowy night three years ago quietly entwined their fates.
When a string of bizarre murders draws them together again, Shen Mo discovers that every clue points to the Jiang family massacre ten years ago. The assassin who keeps leaving clues at crucial moments seems like a guide in the darkness.
Days spent together as Jiang Lin recovered at Shen Mo’s residence, and Shen Mo risking his life to protect him during the autumn hunt, cause their reason and defenses to crumble before they even realize it.
“With me here, I won’t let you put yourself in danger again.” It was the boldest promise he had ever made, and also his most honest confession.
Beneath the conspiracies and flashing blades, two lonely souls save each other.
“Shen Mo, this road is too dark.”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll walk all the way to the end with you.”
This is a gamble with their lives and their convictions at stake. Against the relentless tide of fate, they become each other’s sword and light.
One ordinary afternoon, he happened to open Shen Mo’s desk and found a stack of yellowed case files:
“The True Record of the Jiang Family Massacre.”
“Why are you investigating this?”
Shen Mo brushed a fallen flower from his shoulder. “When you saved me three years ago, I swore I’d clear your name.”
Later, word spread through the assassin world that Shadowless had retired.
Only Jiang Lin knew that he had simply found something more interesting than killing...
Believe me, it's so pretty~