[Traditional historical romance + blind, restrained, tragic yet beautiful prince fallen from grace + delicate, naive, and growing female assassin from an island of assassins + marriage before love + coming-of-age + salvation + both pure]
The orphan Xiao Fanruo was taken in as a child by the leader of an island of assassins, who raised her into a rare assassin who had never shed blood.
Prince Zhao Fenghe was a prodigy blessed by heaven in his youth, but a serious battlefield injury left him blind, and his star fell.
Xiao Fanruo was forced to accept an assassination order from the island’s leader and enter the capital in another woman’s place.
At first, she wanted only to carry out the assassination and make the leader proud.
At first, he found her amusing and kept her around to play with as he pleased.
Later, he said, “If one day you want to leave, I will never force you to stay or come after you.”
Later, she said, “The world has treated you so unfairly... Could you be carefree and spirited like a boy, instead of shouldering the weight of your country and its mountains and rivers on bones that have not yet fully grown?”
Later still, he asked, “Are you ashamed to have a blind husband?”
She laid her delicate hand over his thin lips. “Don’t say that...”
Blind. Every stroke of the word was a blade slowly cutting her apart.
She cupped his face and kissed his eyelids.
“Your eyes are the moon in the sky.”
Two tears slipped from beneath his lowered lashes. Her heart and soul ached, and she held his head against her chest.
Neither spoke. It was as if the universe had just begun, and two beams of light piercing the dust had finally found each other.
