[The Untouchable Beauty x Flirting Without Realizing It]
In the eleventh year of Changzhao, a new emperor ascended the throne. Xing Yan had served as the late emperor's lackey, but when the tide turned, he was thrown into prison.
Everyone at court laughed and said he deserved his fate.
Yet no one knew the new emperor had forced him to swallow a poisonous gu and imprisoned him in his bedchamber.
Xing Yan faked his death and escaped. In the third month of hiding from place to place, he ran into Fu Changlou, the prime minister's son who had once been so proud and unyielding, but was now a distant, austere Daoist priest.
Xing Yan let out an “oh, well”: What a small world.
He was also the old lover he'd parted ways with.
His old lover's expression was cold and disgusted. He gave a scornful laugh. “So, you've finally fallen into my hands.”
Deep down, Xing Yan was actually just a tiny bit happy, foolishly hoping they might rekindle their old flame.
But the other man was a hard stone that would never warm up.
He didn't just lock Xing Yan in the woodshed and leave him hungry. When the love poison took hold, he remained unmoved no matter how desperately Xing Yan begged. He even brought home a dual-cultivation partner...
And so, one day, Xing Yan faked his death and vanished.
His old lover went mad.
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The Fu family had been framed by a treacherous villain, and Xing Yan had received an imperial order to wipe them out.
Fu Changlou should have hated him to the depths of his soul.
But after seeing him so often full of confidence and vigor, Fu Changlou couldn't understand why he felt pity for him in such a wretched state, and took him in.
He knew Xing Yan was only pretending to be harmless. Beneath that facade, he was a sharpened blade that cut through flesh and blood without mercy.
So Fu Changlou deliberately ignored him, treated him coldly, and humiliated him.
Until one day, Xing Yan died. Fu Changlou stared at his tomb, eyes red, and dug up his grave.
Reader's Guide:
1. This is a happy ending. The male lead's family was not wiped out by the love interest. Later, the male lead pursues his wife, and there's a groveling arc.
2. The love interest is an assassin. He only knows how to kill and is a little slow on the uptake: a cold-blooded beauty who flirts without realizing it.
3. The Daoist partner is fake. One-on-one, both are each other's first and only, no switching or reversing roles.
Theme: Cherish the person in front of you
