The Butcher She Married Turned Out to Be an Assassin

[Story Blurb]

Blind woman x assassin / childhood friends / mutual healing

1.

Wang Xiuxiu, the butcher's son, could recite poems at three and write essays at five. He was a well-known child prodigy in town.

Zheng Ying, the daughter of the incense shop owner, was beautiful. The older women all said she would surely marry the boy next door, Wang Xiuxiu, and become a top scholar's wife.

When she was eight, she got caught in a fight between armed bandits, lost her footing, and fell down a slope. Darkness swallowed her vision.

The boy gritted his teeth and carried her down the mountain. She leaned against his young shoulder, tears falling drop by drop onto the back of his hand.

"Xiuxiu, don't cry."

She had gone blind.

The older women said no top scholar in the world would marry a blind woman.

2.

Butcher Wang hopes with all his heart that his son will pass the imperial examinations:

"You can come fetch her after you pass the palace exam."

"Do you want glory and riches, or that little girl?"

Xiuxiu says nothing.

He made his choice ten years ago.

That night, the man came to his door and asked, "Do you want to heal her eyes?"

He said he did.

The man said, "Then come with me."

He left everything from before behind him. From then on, he had no control over his fate.

3.

Xiuxiu went to Tiandu for four years, then returned after failing the exams and proposed to her. He treated her as considerately as ever.

But no one can control the times of chaos. He yearned for peace, but trouble never let up.

Her gentle and considerate husband still doesn't know that she has regained her sight. Holding a head in one hand and a fish in the other, he says, "The fish seller just set up his stall, so I bought you a fish to build up your strength."

Tears stream down her face. The person before her looks vaguely like the one she remembers, except that hardship has made him much harder.

"On the sixth day of the tenth month, in the thirteenth year of Jinghe, there have been so many things to deal with lately. Ying Niang is due to give birth soon, so I must earn more for the household while I can. Besides, Ying Niang has regained her sight. She saw me kill someone and now looks at me as if I'm a demon from hell."

The history books don't contain a single word about him. He was no top scholar, no mighty general. He was a first-rate blade.

Blurb for "The Bright Moon Leaves the Pass"

[Forceful seduction | Pursuit of the wife | SC | 1v1 | Happy ending]

A resentful, obsessive woman x a proud, scheming young lord

Jiang Mingyue is forced to marry off in place of a princess. Unwilling to accept it, she secretly gathers gold and jewels and runs away, only to meet the young lord of the Zhao Duke's household along the way.

The young lord uses her as a merit to his name, ties her up, and escorts her back to the palace.

Zhao Zhiheng was born into a noble family. He acts wantonly, is ruthless and cruel, and is unpredictable.

Jiang Mingyue fears and loathes him, wishing she could kill him, yet she has no choice but to rely on him.

It is the eighth month of autumn, and the trees have yet to shed their leaves. Zhao Zhiheng receives an order: escort Princess Mingyue north of the frontier to marry.

The road is long, the rivers wide, and the journey arduous. Fortunately, he has a delightful companion.

She doesn't want to go north of the frontier and begs him to set her free. He agrees.

The princess offers herself to him. They spend a night in passionate entanglement, and he is happy to indulge her.

Little Mingyue, you don't know that the day we reach the frontier pass will be the day you die.

Their passionate affairs continue day after day. Jiang Mingyue pleases him throughout the journey, dreaming of escaping as soon as possible.

Until the night before they pass through the frontier, when the young lord holds a three-foot sword and tells her to kill herself.

"You are no longer a virgin. If the prince finds out, how could he let this go?"

Years later, the enemy forces invade her homeland. She is taken prisoner, and he is now commander of the six armies.

Jiang Mingyue, already married to another man, crawls before him with an infant in her arms, her delicate figure pressed to the ground, begging him to remember their past and spare the child's life.

His brocade boots patterned with clouds press against her chin. He sneers, "Whore! If you'd died that day, I might have given you a proper burial."

Their old vows still ring in her ears, but now she is as lowly as mud, at his mercy.

1. The child is the male lead's.

2. The heroine's morals are not very high.

Theme: Be strong.