Blood-Red Yaoguang

[Not a Power Fantasy] [Psychological Games] [Nonlinear Structure] [Everyone Is Evil]

In a pool of blood, someone gasps out a deadly rumor:

There are survivors in the Prince Yu's residence...

In the early years of the founding of Ding, the powerful chancellor Gao Tai held the court in his grip. Taxes were as cruel as knives, and border threats burned like fire. Loyal officials were framed, and the massacre at the old dynasty's Prince Yu's residence was branded treason. From then on, no one dared speak of it.

Eighteen years later, Xiao Jingran returns to Lanzhou in Jiangnan.

He has honed his hatred into a net: not one of the eight assassins will get away unpunished.

But what he seeks is far more than settling old scores.

In Lanzhou City, there is an apothecary shopkeeper named Lin Yaohua.

She is bright and outspoken, loves to win and hates to lose. She verbally spars with every talented young man in town, yet can turn around and bring a pouch of incense or a dose of medicine to the sick on their beds in the south of the city.

She has no idea that the