A Delicate Beauty Mistakes an Assassin for a Buddha and Worships Him

(An elite assassin who must never fall in love vs. a frail, gentle merchant’s daughter)

There is one most unusual sect in the martial world: the Cold Crow Sect.

It is the only assassin organization in the realm tolerated by the imperial court. If you can pay, its assassins will do anything for you.

Jiang Jihan is the finest assassin among the younger generation of the Cold Crow Sect. He has an innocent, baby-faced look and appears to be no older than sixteen or seventeen, yet he has already taken more lives than anyone can count.

Like every top assassin in the sect, Jiang Jihan has been implanted with a Heartless Gu by the sect leader. If he falls in love, the poison attacks his heart, bringing pain like bones being carved out.

It is the sect leader’s strongest chain to keep them in check.

Wen Shulian, the daughter of a merchant family, grew up surrounded by the cloth trade. Gentle by nature and frail since childhood, she barely had time to make out the face of the person who saved her that night.

But from that day on, she went to Hanshan Temple outside the city to pray on the first day of every month.

She did not know his name or where he came from, yet she prayed for him without fail, rain or shine.

“May the gods and Buddhas protect him. Wen Shulian has no other wish, only that he be safe and well.”

In the corridor outside the temple hall, Jiang Jihan leaned against a stone pillar and clutched his aching chest. He murmured to himself, “You pray for my safety, but my only way to be safe is never to see you again…”

Content warnings:

1. If you’re a female-lead loyalist, don’t read this! Don’t read it, don’t read it!

2. Multiple POVs, amateur writing, and both leads are romantically inexperienced.