【The Last Survivor of the Former Dynasty x The New Dynasty's Sharpest Blade】
On the night the Jing Kingdom fell, Baili Ren took off the men's clothes she had worn for twenty years, changed into a palace maid's dress, and escaped with her life.
From then on, Prince Baili Ren ceased to exist. There was only Ren Shushu, the last survivor of the former dynasty.
She thought changing her name would change her fate, but there were people who would scour the world and never let the name “Baili Ren” go. One of them was the new emperor's cousin, Prince Su, Huangfu Su, who had been granted his title for helping the founding emperor seize the throne.
After the new dynasty was established, Huangfu Su's first order was to root out the remnants of the former dynasty and find the one “fish that got away.”
Their pursuit twisted and turned. She hid among crowds and in the city streets, but in the end, a letter of denunciation delivered her straight to him. He looked down at her, his gaze as sharp as a blade.
“What is your relationship to the former dynasty's ninth prince?”
She trembled in his hands, afraid to answer.
He had no idea that this woman, trembling with every breath, was the very person he had turned the world upside down to find.
She dared not tell him. If she did, would he kill her, the last survivor of the former dynasty, or keep loving her, the woman who shared his bed?
He was the sharpest blade of the new dynasty. She was the final calamity of the old.
The blade should have cut out every last root, yet it turned, against all reason, toward the heart.
Theme: The identity fate gives you can be both a gift and a shackle, but what kind of person you become is ultimately your own choice. And on the road to a new life, freedom, and love, someone must have the courage to take responsibility.
