A Qi is an elite assassin raised by an assassins' organization. Her daily life consists of taking jobs and killing people. She cuts people down like cabbages, but knows nothing about human relationships.
One day, she receives an unusual assignment. She must disguise herself as the delicate Miss Lin and marry a man named Zhang Xun, because she and Miss Lin look almost exactly alike.
Her "brother" says, "Keep an eye on Zhang Xun and report back regularly."
To ensure her "undercover" mission goes smoothly, A Qi is on high alert. She even takes a muscle-relaxing drug so as not to give away her martial arts skills.
But that night... she takes too much of the drug and can't resist Zhang Xun's request to share a room...
A Qi: (frowning) Woe is me!
If not for bringing good fortune to the elderly ancestor in his family, Zhang Xun would never have thought of getting married.
Least of all to a delicate, sickly beauty.
As the commander of the Divine Strategy Bureau, a man whose name strikes fear throughout the capital, Zhang Xun has never gone easy on a prisoner in the imperial prison. But when it comes to his wife, he doesn't mind learning how to be a "good husband."
It's just... why is a woman's body so delicate?
A light squeeze of the wrist makes it turn red. Raise his voice a little and she cries. The faintest smell of blood makes her gag.
He carefully measures how to treat her. What he can offer is the greatest freedom a man burdened by killing can give her.
On one condition: she must be a good, proper wife.
But then a palace coup takes place, and Prince Yan seizes the imperial palace. Zhang Xun escapes with the emperor through a secret passage.
At the brink of life and death, the final blow to him comes from his delicate wife.
Three years later, he meets Lin Chan again. She's married to another man, with a child at her side whose father is anyone's guess.
In the interrogation room, Zhang Xun lifts her chin with his whip. "Do assassins have to get married before killing someone? And have a child, too?"
"Then come kill me, and have a child with me."
Lin Chan watches helplessly as she's taken from the imperial prison to a secluded villa in the suburbs. Every day when she opens her eyes, she sees Zhang Xun's deathly pale face.
She expected him to exact all-out revenge. So why isn't he saying, "I hate you," but instead, "Don't leave me"?
A widower cruelly abandoned × an emotionally clueless, sweet-faced but black-hearted female assassin
Theme: My heart faces the sun, shining bright
