[Revenge + Both Pure + Happy Ending + Scheming and Taking Down Enemies + Historical Setting]
One day, the people claiming to be her “birth parents” send someone to fetch her, but they're attacked along the way.
She kills the assassins and learns the truth: her entire family was wiped out a month ago.
Her parents died unjustly, her sister was brutally killed, and even their remains were buried in a mass grave without a single headstone.
She spent ten years learning her craft in an opera troupe: disguise, ventriloquism, puppetry, and how to destroy a person from within.
She drugs her enemies' tea, sings plays about the King of Hell in their dreams, and plants murderous puppets in their homes.
When Young Master Sun rapes someone, she makes him die at the hands of a puppet in bed. When Magistrate Diao suppresses a petition, she makes him “kill himself out of guilt.” When Vice Minister Ding rides down a victim, she makes sure not a trace of him remains. When Duke Rong of the State wrongfully takes a life, she makes him confess his crimes himself.
After completing her revenge, she disappears without a trace. No one knows that she was the one pulling the strings.
Only one poor scholar who teaches for a living sees that her eyes aren't those of a beggar.
He doesn't ask where she came from or where she goes when she slips over the wall at night. He only says, “There aren't that many rules in this courtyard.”
He helps her write petitions, lends her money, and searches through Lingnan's archives until he finds her father's name.
He says, “I entered the civil service for you.”
He says, “You didn't consult me before taking revenge, so if I insist on helping you, I don't need to consult you either.”
The puppets make no sound, and their killings leave no blood.
The performer has a heart, and they will meet year after year.
(The entire story is finished and ready to read, with 400,000 characters in total.)
