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He was once the sharpest blade of the Shadowless Pavilion, able to cut through metal with a bloodied edge. At the peak of Foundation Establishment, his name was known far and wide.
Now, he's the most down-and-out thief in Yan Gui City. His spiritual roots are shattered, his cultivation has plummeted, and he survives by knocking people out from behind. A deadly Soul-Eating Gu is coiled around his lung palace, too.
He stole the chancellor's son's personal pendant, but now he has to return it untouched?
This "thieving job" reeks of something sinister. It's clearly a fatal trap, inviting him right in!
Lu Zhao grins. "Sure, you want to play dirty? I'll steal everything you own, and then some!"
But when he plunges into the freezing river, dragging his broken body, and barely crawls back to shore alive...
The pretty tavern widow who always rolled her eyes at him tears off her mask, revealing the face he has longed for in his dreams.
"Coward! What is it that I don't know?"
When a river ghost meets a medicine maiden, when a born thief collides with a flower of vengeance,
This deadly game, played across Yan Gui City with Dongxuan Sect making the moves, has only just begun.
Thief and poison wife, tonight, we break through the net!
