The Kite Chronicles

Each volume in the Asura Clan series is a standalone story with no major connections to the others. In chronological order, the series consists of "A Sudden Awakening," "Fragile as a City," "The Kite's Tale," and "Listening to Rain in the Song Tower as a Boy." The side story is "Silk-Stained Hair." Seven years ago, the Leng and Shen families, two branches of the Asura Clan, were slaughtered to the last person in a single night. Seven years later, the Leng family's legendary Seven-Colored Bloodblade Sword reappeared in the martial world. The world descended into chaos. By then, the orphan Leng Mengqiong had mastered her martial arts and grown into a calculating swordswoman who showed no mercy. Together with Shen Yihan, heir to the Shen family, she pursued the culprit behind the massacre, one step at a time, one in the open and the other in the shadows. Was it her brother's old friend, who had once stolen the woman he loved? The peerless master her aunt had loved more than a decade ago? The son of the enemy her father had once slain with his own hand? Or the Miao priest her mother had once hated to the depths of her soul? The great orthodox sects watched from the sidelines, while the descendants of the true Asura Clan, who had once withdrawn from the world, reappeared in the martial world. Why did no one want them to learn the truth about what had happened back then? They traveled farther and farther down the road of revenge. Only when her husband, the upright and righteous hero Yi Jingxing, drove the Shen family's blood-weeping blade into her chest did she understand: no matter how much she loved him, or how much he loved her, she had gone too far to turn back. The two of them were like a kite and the person holding its string, connected by nothing but a slender thread. He thought that no matter how far she flew, he could always pull her back. But he had forgotten that once the thread binding them together snapped, neither of them could ever recover what they had once shared. Don't let the blurb fool you, ladies. This is actually a story about "two sadists falling in love, while two masochists confess their feelings." P.S. The heroine has plenty of emotions, but she's basically a total poker face. Put nicely, she's a cool beauty. Put less nicely, she can't control her facial muscles. #This heroine is a little aloof#