My Little Assassin

He is a tyrant who rules with an iron fist. In court, one censor's suggestion to "purge the evil from the emperor's side" is enough to make him leave all the officials kneeling outside his younger brother's chambers until he wakes. After court, though, he wraps his sleeping brother in his imperial robe and murmurs softly, "The bad people are gone."

No one knows that the frail younger brother he cherishes is the sharpest blade planted at his bedside by the remnants of the previous dynasty.

The eighteen-year-old pretends to surrender to this extreme affection while calmly counting down the days until his assassination attempt.

Until one night, when he sneaks into the military camp to steal the tiger tally, only to be caught red-handed by his brother.

Yin Tianyu toys with the tally and chuckles. "You want this?" He pulls the young man close, his breath burning against his ear. "Call me Brother, and I'll give you my life."

It turns out he has seen through everything from the start. His years of affection are both an instinctive, profound love and a gentle trap, inviting his little assassin to lay down his blade of his own accord.

When a blood edict reveals the mystery of his birth, his identity changes again and again: from the enemy's son to the sole survivor of a massacred family, from a prince of Yue to a hostage in an enemy state. Only that obsessive, devoted love remains unchanged, crossing national hatred and family feuds, and spanning two lifetimes of life and death.

He once betrayed the whole world to keep one person safe.

He once fell from a city wall, his final thought that he would never see his brother again.

Reborn, he is a hostage of the country he hates most, and his brother has become a tyrant who torments him. But when a million-strong army besieges the city, the emperor pulls him into his arms and kisses him:

"I've known it was you all along. I'll give you this empire as your bride price. Stay with me, all right?"