Tales of the Dark River: The Hanging Blade

Name: Tales of the Dark River: The Hanging Blade
Author: Luo Yijun

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by Luo Yijun (落忆君)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 274k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Fantasy Romance
Updated: 10d ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

|| Love and hate each other + an adversarial couple + intense push and pull + two equally powerful leads + one-on-one romance ||

She was the sharpest blade the Dark River had seen in twenty years, a female assassin known by the codename Nameless. Her face was hidden behind a mask, and no one ever survived her sword.

But a betrothal drove her to flee the Dark River.

Furious, the groom fired an arrow as she escaped. It grazed her shoulder.

“Nameless, you'd better hope I don't catch you too soon.”

The Dark River's Nameless defected and took the name Shen Jianyue.

Her name means “to see the moon.” From then on, amid endless darkness, she saw herself, saw the world, and saw the blood moon return.

☆ Grace and betrayal, life and schemes: she donned her mask, gripped the Nameless Sword, and returned to the heart of the bloody storm.

“When the Dark River reaches the other shore, I'll marry you.”

“If your heart hasn't changed, I'll say yes.”

☆ As the darkness lifted, she held his hand and walked with him toward the light that belonged to them.

But when the mist parted, she discovered that beneath the Dark River binding them together lay a fate they had been unable to escape for twenty years.

And the fourteen years she had spent as a killer had been nothing more than a carefully planned act of protection.

☆ Her mother was brutally killed, her village destroyed, and her past deliberately erased. She grew into a sword with no memories of where she came from.

“A Yue, it's all over.”

“Why are you crying? I'm Nameless. I won't die that easily.”

The Dark River still flowed through the shadows. The two who had promised to cross to the other shore together were ultimately buried side by side, never to see the wedding they had awaited.

☆ When the clouds and mist disperse, the bright moon appears.

[If you use the same protagonist setup, I'm calling it plagiarism. Don't argue with me.]

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207Chapters

775Reads · 30 days

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