[A disguised refugee from a fallen kingdom who is an enemy nation's assassin × a cold-faced, ruthless general who fiercely protects her own] [Two female leads]
Lin Daoyi, a general of Eastern Qi, is the sharpest blade on the border, cold and deadly. No one dares to challenge her.
Yet amid a mountain of corpses and a rain of blood, she took in a beggar covered in blood.
The little beggar's eyes were as ferocious as a wolf's, yet she was as fragile as a dry branch that might snap at a touch.
Lin Daoyi assumed she was an ordinary refugee from an enemy nation, pursued by bandits. She hid her in her tent and cared for her attentively.
No one knew that the little beggar was an enemy nation's assassin, a killer who had never known defeat.
And no one knew that the first person Liu Shu recognized when she woke was Lin Daoyi.
The renowned general of Eastern Qi, and the woman she had been sent to kill.
“You saved me, so I belong to you.”
Liu Shu pretended to be naive as she told this lie.
Lin Daoyi taught her to write, gave her a name, and kept her by her side.
Liu Shu concealed her martial arts and cunning, acting obedient, quiet, and fragile in front of her. In secret, she cleared away countless political enemies and hidden threats on her behalf.
The longer they kept up the act, the harder it became to tell what was real.
I was a blade that could never see the light. You gave me a name.
So let me be the only blade you need.
Let me lay down my weapon for you, then take it up again, for you, to slaughter the world.
