Gu Yan has died once.
In her previous life, she was a criminal investigation captain who spent ten years hunting down a killer, only to die in the line of duty on her final case. When she opens her eyes again, she's become a sacrificial pawn in a historical political intrigue novel: the Shen family's second daughter, sent to Prince Chen's manor to bring good fortune, and destined not to survive thirty chapters.
Prince Chen, Xiao Che, is rumored to kill without blinking. On their wedding day, he tortures a spy at his own doorstep. Holding out the wedding cup, he tells her, “I have a bad temper, and I'm ruthless.”
She takes the cup and drains it. “I would like to ask Your Highness for a room where I can practice martial arts.”
Everyone assumes she is simply afraid of dying.
Until she takes down the guards' commander with her bare hands. Until she escapes unscathed from the assassination plot the crown prince set for her. Until the dagger called Returning Blade is placed in her hands
Xiao Che asks, “Who are you, really?”
Gu Yan looks at him, a man who, like her, has crawled out of hell. “Take a guess.”
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