Xie Fucheng, the greatest assassin under heaven, has peerless lightness skills and unmatched disguise abilities. But during an old case involving the massacre of an entire family, she is betrayed by her fellow disciples, drugged with an aphrodisiac, and hunted all the way to Chang’an.
While fleeing, she climbs into an elegant manor and takes advantage of a cool, aloof young nobleman who is bathing.
To save her own life, she sobers up, pulls on her trousers, and runs, leaving only one line behind: “We met by chance. Let’s never meet again.”
A month later, she returns to the Jing’an Marquis’s residence under a false name, as the true heiress who was separated from her family years ago and has finally been found.
The adopted daughter weeps like a pear blossom in the rain, and the rules of the marquis’s household are deadly at every turn. Xie Fucheng plays mute and pretends to be weak, then turns the family intrigues into a courtroom investigation.
An imperial decree from the Empress Dowager betroths her to Lu Yan, the Dali Temple official famed for solving cases and known for keeping his distance from women.
At the engagement banquet, Xie Fucheng looks up and meets Lu Yan’s deep, unfathomable gaze.
Lu Yan runs a finger over the jade pendant at his waist, his voice cool. “Madam, I’m quite familiar with the lightness skills you used to run away.”
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