[No immortal cultivation, pure wuxia, no System. Cold-blooded, ruthless male lead An Runting x scheming, dark-hearted female lead Murong Yuelian. Main plot: revenge; secondary plot: searching for the imperial seal.]
The martial world is rife with deceit, treachery, and bloodshed. Men can turn against their sworn brothers over a title, or betray their trust for a little profit... Yet the martial world is not without its warmth and humanity. It has heroic passion, romantic love, brotherly loyalty, and devotion unto death...
An Runting was once an idle prince from a powerful noble family, spending his days doing nothing. But his father, a court official, had spearheaded reform that harmed most of the great noble houses, earning their bitter hatred. They began secretly isolating his father and targeting him at court until the reforms failed. Even then, the nobles were not willing to let them go...
So, one rainy night, the great nobles secretly descended on the Anrun family estate and set upon the household, killing, burning, and looting. In a single night, An Runting’s parents and all the servants were slaughtered. Only An Runting and his sister An Runyu escaped...
After that, the idle prince of the Anrun family fell silent. He never smiled again, devoting himself to training his martial arts day after day, year after year. He would never forget that rainy night, the terrible sight of his family, or his parents’ pleas for mercy.
He would make those great nobles pay for their blood debt!
Later, once he learned which noble families were responsible, he took up the blade he had forged himself, donned the bamboo hat and straw rain cape his sister An Runyu had made for him, and left the mountain hut where they had been hiding. With the “Death Warrant” in hand, he set out on the path of revenge.
Ah Minos wrote so well🤓