My Entire Clan Was Wiped Out in One Night. Who Still Dares Tell Me to Be Kind?

[Revenge + Gloomy, Unhinged Heroine vs. Sickly, Sinister Hero + Stunningly Beautiful and Tragic + Powerful Minds in a Battle of Madness + Exchanging Secret Identities + All the Women in the Heroine's Crew Are Villains]

Everyone by the Xun River praises her as a corpse retriever.

By day, she carries bodies. By night, she sharpens her knives.

No one knows that beneath the false scars covering her face

lies a vengeful soul, steeped to the bone in gloom.

Five years ago, all 102 members of the Lu family were slaughtered.

Five years later, she lies low in a funeral parlor, covering its walls with portraits of her enemies.

The Xiao family's steward: dead. The Shen family's heiress: ruined.

She doesn't play the good Samaritan. She is a ghost who comes to claim lives.

But she never expected that, in this game of chess wagered with blood,

the most dangerous piece would come to her of its own accord.

He is gravely wounded and on the brink of death, sickly and suspicious.

They test one another and use each other in equal measure.

When their masks finally come off, she wields her beauty as a blade and wagers her true feelings.

Every move settles a score, and every life is a chess piece.

In this deep game of blood and vengeance, we're both mad.

[Content Warnings]

1. The heroine is a deranged, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside type. Revenge comes first, and she is no saint. She isn't self-sacrificing, and she doesn't harm the innocent.

2. The hero is sinister, sickly, suspicious, and restrained. Two powerful minds clash, each using the other.

3. Extreme romantic tension, mutual surrender, and pure, instinctive attraction.

4. No one is a naive sweetheart. The story blends angst and catharsis, and not everyone gets redeemed.

5. Set in a fictional world inspired by the Song and Ming dynasties, with both the bustle of everyday life and political intrigue.