The Regent's Bedside Spy

She has died once.

Explosion, flames, a mutual death. Shen Ci, a top modern-day assassin, opens her eyes in the Great Yan Dynasty as an orphan girl who has been sold. No identity, no money, no way out.

She builds a restaurant in three months and buys a pleasure house in seven days.

In public, she is a ruthless businesswoman in Lin'an City, known as the “Hellraiser of Willow Lane.” In secret, she runs an intelligence network no one knows about. Every secret flows into her ears from the pillows of those who hold it.

He holds power over all beneath heaven.

Xiao Jingxing, the Regent Prince, is twenty-six and commands an army of three hundred thousand. He is the true ruler of the Great Yan Dynasty. Barbarian tribes threaten the borders, vassal princes scheme within, and the seventeen-year-old emperor on the throne quietly sharpens his knife, waiting to stab him in the back.

He needs a pair of eyes that can slip into the shadows.

She needs a powerful patron who can keep the realm in check.

One deal. Two people, each with their own agenda.

He thinks he is using her. She thinks she is controlling him. Until one day, he discovers that the person beside him in bed has never been just a bedmate.

“Who are you, really?”

“I’m the person you should trust least.”

And the person you should never kill.

Two formidable leads | Political intrigue | Secret love | Happy ending

“She came from the ashes, and he walked the blade’s edge. Two people who should never have trusted each other somehow became the only ones in the world who could stand side by side.”