Trembling Spring Branches

[Proud young lady x cold-blooded, bloodthirsty killing machine] [Happy ending]

A doting brother, a soft-hearted sister-in-law, a broken servant, and her, a haughty young lady

They say the Fourth Miss of the Grand Commandant’s household is arrogant and foolish, without even realizing it.

To secure a slim chance of survival,

he has no choice but to pose as a stable hand, approach her, and win her trust.

The young lady is vain and fiercely protective of her own.

She pursues the young master of the Imperial Uncle’s household and never follows the rules.

The bloodthirsty power within him stirs restlessly,

yet he can barely control himself around her.

At last, he stands at an unattainable height, looking down on all living things,

but she has vanished from his life completely.

The Fourth Miss does as she pleases and has bought herself a strange stable hand,

a man of overwhelming murderous aura and mysterious origins.

Because the Fourth Miss is so fiercely protective, the Xu family can only seethe in silence.

Who would have thought this lowborn man was the reincarnation of the Star of Martial Arts,

said to be invulnerable to swords and spears?

The Fourth Miss is very fond of this stable hand,

and rumors soon spread everywhere.

Whenever he gets close to her, he feels the bloodlust stirring within him.

Her slender neck is like a fine piece of porcelain, pale and fragile.

He seems to see his great hand, like an iron vice,

slowly reaching toward that delicate neck.

His fingers touch her smooth skin,

and he can clearly feel its faint warmth and her pulsing heartbeat.

Then, with the slightest twist, there would be a “crack,” crisp as thin ice breaking beneath a heavy weight in the depths of winter.

The Fourth Miss is fated to die young, her marriage never to be.

On the day the old emperor dies, she is given a cup of poison.

General Pang rushes back from the border,

and, holding one corner of her cold coffin,

feels his heart shatter.