She is a blade, carefully cultivated by the remnants of an enemy nation, and her mission is to bring his country to ruin.
Yet he becomes the only light to reach the depths of her abyss.
Lu Minglan is the most outstanding student at Ci'en Academy, and also the most deeply embedded spy.
She is ordered to infiltrate the country and bring this prosperous empire down from within.
Gu Yanzhi, heir to a family of loyal martyrs, is the emperor’s weapon.
He sees the danger in her and closes in step by step, laying traps and testing her, determined to uncover the truth beneath her pristine facade.
But when he risks his life to protect a child, and later saves her at the cost of his own life when she is in danger, two hearts on opposing sides begin to draw dangerously close amid their life-and-death clashes.
He grips her chin, his eyes cold with a light that sees through everything. “Lu Minglan, who are you really?”
She should have killed him. It was her mission.
But when he lays the bloody truth from forty years ago before her, her world suddenly collapses:
The mentor she revered as a god was the very person who slaughtered her entire family!
The homeland she had sworn to destroy had long since become a home she could not abandon.
When the organization’s final order arrives: activate “Jingzhe” and bathe the imperial capital in blood.
She stands at a crossroads of fate. On one side are the kindness that raised her and a sea of blood-deep vengeance; on the other are the man she loves and the lights in countless homes.
Where will this poisoned blade finally strike?
