[Both reborn + reconciliation after a breakup + mutual firsts + equally strong leads + happy ending + fictional setting]
Ran Yan, chief of Liuyun Stronghold, kills without batting an eye, day and night.
She is a fiend whom everyone in the martial world wants dead.
She is also the most popular and in-demand person on the assassins’ list of contacts.
No one knows that in a shabby mountain village, she has a little dark room where she keeps the “paralyzed” former crown prince, Qi Mu.
Why shouldn’t she lock up someone she saved?
Qi Mu hates her, but he can’t escape.
His domestic enemy is Ran Yan; his foreign one is the father who wants him dead.
Add up the few scattered people around him, and no one wants him to live a good life. Looking at how things had turned out, Qi Mu gave a bitter smile.
Unexpectedly, his useless father managed to bring the kingdom to ruin, and neighboring countries invaded its lands.
With death staring them in the face, everyone suddenly remembered: Where was their Crown Prince?
Ran Yan couldn’t stand those fools. They were all heartless.
Qi Mu begged her.
But it was already too late.
In March, when spring was in full bloom and all things were coming back to life, Qi Mu died amid a siege.
Ran Yan held his cold body, speechless for a moment.
Yongzhou was so desolate. She had always said they would go see Fandu, but now she didn’t want to go anymore.
A thousand arrows pierced their hearts, brilliant as fire.
They died together.
When Ran Yan opened her eyes again, she had returned to the years she had been imprisoned in the underworld.
Perhaps a melon forced off the vine isn’t sweet.
Ran Yan had grown sick of the way he looked down at her with lowered eyes, and of her own presumptuous self. She was tired of everything that had happened in their past life.
Perhaps this time around, they could live differently.
She had heard Zhangcheng had a path to the immortal realm.
She should let go.
In Guang’an Village, Qi Mu lay paralyzed in bed, trying to save himself while thinking: Why isn’t she locking me up anymore?
