I, Liu Yang, a servant in the Su residence, caught a glimpse of the White Lotus Saintess bathing in the mist. From then on, I became her number one target for assassination. Poisoned lotus darts, silver garrotes, deadly paper lotuses... She followed me like a shadow, every strike aimed at my life.
Until she personally dealt with the affair of melting down silver meant to save disaster victims to make a “statue of the Saintess,” and then caught her fellow disciple poisoning a well. On the night her faith crumbled, she burst into my courtyard, drenched from head to toe. “The god I worshipped was a man-eating demon all along.”
From then on, she went from hunting me to becoming my shadow. When the Jin Prince's death squad attacked at night, thirteen corpses were laid out in neat rows in the courtyard by morning, each with a paper lotus stabbed through the heart. At midnight, she climbed in through my window, tossed me the antidote, and whispered, “The seven people who tried to poison you today have been dealt with.”
Now I've become a legend. While the empress held court, a paper lotus drifted in through the window, bearing a message in blood: “Be back before the hour of the Pig.” A foreign spy approached with a smile, only to be struck by a needle in the back of the neck moments later. “A blade hidden in a smile. Highly toxic.”
Last night, she finally leaped down from the rafters. She lifted my chin with her scabbard, the corners of her eyes red. “Liu Yang... I gave the first half of my life to a false god. Will you take this god-slaying blade for the rest of it?”
The Peerless Servant: The Saintess Who Hunted Me Won't Leave Me Alone. She once tried to kill me for her faith, then rebelled against the world for the truth, and in the end became a blade in my hands.
(Every night, hushed arguments come from the rafters: “It's my turn to keep watch.” “You watched half a stick of incense longer last night!” “Shh... he's asleep.”)
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