[Reading Guide]
1. Both heroines disguise themselves as men, with dramatic identity reveals. At heart, they dote on each other; two strong women save each other.
2. Frail, scheming, top-tier stateswoman × battle-scarred, overwhelmingly powerful, straightforward, loyal assassin.
3. Political intrigue takes a back seat to romance. From mutual probing to entrusting each other with their lives.
4. Happy ending, 1v1, both physically and emotionally pure. They don’t just fall in love, they build a career together!
Xie Yunheng, the powerful Left Chancellor of the Great Liang court, disguised as a man.
Everyone says “he” is ruthless and treacherous, a rebel who dares to place even the emperor under house arrest. Though she coughs blood and is frail with illness, no one dares challenge the sharp edge of this young powerbroker.
Yan Changge, the top assassin of Tingyu Tower.
To survive the cutthroat assassin camp, she has lived disguised as a man for more than a decade, becoming a bloodless blade of slaughter.
On a snowy night, the top assassin infiltrates the Chancellor’s residence, her sword pointed at the corrupt chancellor’s throat.
But the supposedly frail chancellor, said to be too weak to harm a chicken, not only catches the assassin, but sees through her disguise at a glance.
“The court is too cold.”
Xie Yunheng looks at her, her phoenix eyes full of madness and calculation. “Sell me your life. I’ll give you money, power, and a place where you won’t have to bind your chest or hide anymore.”
Yan Changge thinks she’s encountered a madwoman.
Later, she discovers that Xie Yunheng isn’t just mad, she’s also a “foolish ruler” willing to spend five hundred thousand taels of gold to treat her severed arm.
When rebels besiege the palace, Yan Changge loses her right arm protecting her mistress and falls into the mud.
The entire court...
