[A Mr. and Mrs. Smith-style historical romance × the push-and-pull of The Glory, two formidable masters of disguise go on a killing spree!]
Everyone in Qingshui Town pities the hard-luck couple, unaware they are hiding the deadliest of secrets.
The wife, Shen Jingzhi, appears to be a timid seamstress who faints at the sight of blood. In truth, she is the elite assassin known as “Bian’an” from “Yellow Springs Ferry,” the martial world’s top assassin organization. Her husband, Xie Peizhi, seems like a frail scholar, too weak to harm a chicken. In reality, he is the disgraced crown prince who faked his death and went into hiding, as well as the Director of the Imperial City Bureau. He excels at both political schemes and assassination.
Each has a mission to fulfill, so by day they play the loving couple, calling each other “dear husband” and “dear wife” with tender affection. In secret, they probe one another for clues: her “surgeon-like” way of chopping vegetables nearly gives her away, while the strength in his hands as he wrings out clothes conceals a lethal technique. On a late-night mission, they almost run into each other on the rooftop and expose their secret identities. When they return injured, they have to pretend they took a tumble, and as they tend to each other’s wounds, each harbors their own suspicions.
Then the order to kill arrives: she must kill him, the disgraced crown prince, while he must eliminate her, the assassin from “Yellow Springs Ferry”!
Beneath the candlelight in a dilapidated house, a silver needle presses against a throat and a curved blade points at a waist as they drop their pretenses and face off.
“Dear husband, so you’re not a scholar after all?” “Dear wife, so your fear of blood was an act?”
Amid flashing blades, their lips somehow meet, desire mingling with murderous intent. “Why don’t we join forces and take down each other’s bosses?”
The fake spouses become true allies. They show off their love by day and carry out assassinations by night. One secret identity reveal after another hits like a punch, and their satisfying counterattack is unstoppable!
“Whoever falls first loses, so why is my heart racing when your blade is at my waist?”
