"He was ordered to kill me, but he fell in love with me at the point of a knife."
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There is an undercurrent surging in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the forces of Jianghu are ready to move. Xiao Jingheng, the eldest son of Prince Ning, offended Long Yan by outspokenly admonishing him, and was demoted as border inspector. Little did he know that he had already been included in the must-kill list by Yingge.
The number one killer of Shadow Pavilion, Yun Zhan, is cold-blooded and ruthless, and he never kills anyone under the sword. But when he was ordered to assassinate the prince, at the moment of the fight on a rainy night, he wavered about the mission for the first time - Xiao Jingheng's eyes were too clean, not clean enough for someone in this dirty world.
A border crisis forced the two rivals to join forces to fight against the enemy. As they got along day and night, Yun Zhan discovered that the prince was completely different from the powerful: he would personally serve porridge to the refugees, teach assassins how to read and write, and would not hesitate to block Yun Zhan's fatal arrow when an assassin attacked.
"Why save me?" Yun Zhan's voice was hoarse in the blood-stained night.
"Instinct." Xiao Jingheng smiled calmly, "It's like you could have killed me, but you sheathed your sword."
When the Shadow Pavilion's ultimatum was issued, when the court's pursuit orders spread across the nine states, the former killer and the prince stood at a crossroads in destiny——
Should I wield my sword at each other, or should I abandon the whole world in exchange for salvation on the tip of a knife?
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"The masterpiece of the year's ancient style of conspiracy and redemption"
◇Cold-blooded killer VS Crown Prince Guangfeng Jiyue, the two strong men confront each other to the point of life and death.
◇Multiple plots in the court × fighting in the world × taboo feelings, multiple threads intertwined
◇The ultimate emotional transformation from "mission goal" to "lifelong obsession"
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"If this world cannot tolerate you and me, then we will subvert this world."
