[Mutual redemption + both leads’ first love]
Ever since Jiang Xingyue could remember, she had lived amid gunfire and danger, surviving by the edge of a blade. She thought she would spend the rest of her life this way: raising her younger siblings and fulfilling her promise to her parents. If she died on a mission someday, so be it.
She never imagined she would meet a man.
The first time she saw him, she begged him to save her.
The second time she saw him, she knocked him out.
The third time she saw him, he came looking for her.
Covered in wounds and looking utterly disheveled, she gazed at the radiant man before her. To her surprise, she found herself entertaining a few foolish hopes.
After one collision and encounter after another, she wrapped her arms around him from behind. “Zhi Li, will you take me away?”