The entire martial world laughed at Xie Zhaoxue for being blind: the most beautiful woman in the martial world had married a failed scholar who couldn't fight.
For three years after their wedding, the insults never stopped. Teahouses made jokes about them, the Xie family came demanding she remarry, and even her former subordinates urged her to "stop wasting your life on a useless man." She never argued. At night, she simply sharpened her kitchen knife until it shone brighter than a murderer's blade.
Then, on the night the pursuers broke in, she dried her hands and told the scholar the truth for the first time: "Before I married you, I was the number one assassin in the martial world. Now someone wants to kill our whole family."
The scholar was silent for a moment, then turned and pulled an old sword from a hidden compartment in the bookshelf. "Funny you should say that. The former leader of the assassin organization that retired twenty years ago was me."
The pursuers thought they had cornered a helpless couple. Only when the former subordinates knelt before the wrong person, the masters on the hidden rankings were knocked aside with a single sword, and a traitor seized the "leader's wife" to lure the former leader to his death, did they realize the entire martial world had been laughing at two legends.
They only wanted to retire and live in peace, but the martial world kept forcing them back into action.
But nobody knew the sword had left its scabbard not to settle old scores, but for her. "Did you retire so you could spend your life with me?"
