Schemes of the Frail

[Sickly beauty × scheming, politically shrewd prince]

[Strong heroine + strong hero + satisfying revenge + court politics + devoted romance]

“Your Highness, Prince Chen, I saved you not out of kindness. I need your help to overturn this court, where right and wrong have been twisted.”

Cen Lianshuang was the frailest young lady in the Tang family, a delicate cousin who might topple in a breeze. She coughed blood into her handkerchief and could barely lift a bucket of water.

No one knew she was an orphan with a talent for both poison and medicine, a master of light-footed martial arts, and a heart filled with the blood-soaked vendetta of her entire family.

A few days before she entered the capital, she rescued Pei Xubai, Prince Chen, after he was badly wounded in an ambush at a country estate.

He looked at her pale, almost translucent face and took her for a harmless, frail young woman.

But when she held a poisoned needle between her fingertips and dug the remaining poison from his body, the cold gleam in her eyes gave her away.

He was a ruthless man with power over the court. She was frail in body, but hid sharp edges beneath her delicate appearance.

Watching her bare her claws, he fell deeply for her.

“Why should you have to overturn this court yourself? I will give you what you want, protect you from what you fear, and hand you the blade when you kill. If this court has treated you unjustly, then what does it matter if I bring it down?”

The court was a dark, treacherous world of political intrigue. She wielded her ailing body as a blade and used her medical skills as a strategy. Together, they joined forces, crushed their enemies, and cleared the names of the wronged.

Their story began with a rescue and ended with their lives bound together.