Glimmering Blades and Enchanting Shadows

As one of the Four Rakshasas of the Hall of Yama, Su Meier has killed the fewest people, yet more people have died because of her than because of anyone else.

She has never felt guilty, though, because those people deserved to die.

Until her final mission: assassinating the Great General Who Guards the Nation. She disguises herself as a brothel girl and deliberately gets close to Xiao Suyuan, the young master of the general's household. She never expects him to fall so deeply in love with her that he says he wants to marry her.

Xiao Suyuan really does marry Su Meier, with eight bearers carrying her sedan chair and ten miles of wedding finery.

But on their wedding night, blood spills across the capital from the general's residence.

Xiao Suyuan: "Did you ever love me at all?"

Su Meier hesitates, unable to answer.

Xiao Suyuan: "You don't have to say it. If you were my wife for one day, then you will be my wife for life!"

The male leads are Yang Fan and Xiao Suyuan. The plot is complex, and the two male leads have roughly equal roles.

Next novel: Five Years of Fortune Stolen by the Gods

Su Muyun was once a prodigy of the Xuantian Sect. She established her foundation at fifteen and formed her core at twenty. She had an ice spiritual root and cultivated both swordsmanship and talismans.

But on the very day she formed her golden core, the senior brother she admired brought back a badly injured young woman. He said a great demon had slaughtered her village, and she was the only survivor.

The next five years were years Su Muyun could never bear to look back on. Her cultivation never advanced, while that young woman established her foundation and formed her core in just three short years. Her senior brother gradually grew impatient with her, yet he was willing to fly on his sword for days just to buy the other girl the candied hawthorns she liked.

Su Muyun had no choice but to keep taking sect missions in exchange for more spirit stones, so she could refine better pills. Then came one mission: her senior brother was in grave danger while trying to capture a spirit beast the girl liked. She fell into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons while saving him.

In the abyss, Su Muyun had a very long dream. The girl was a goddess from the heavens, and she had descended to undergo a trial of love. Su Muyun was nothing more than a vessel created by the gods to nourish the goddess. The gods had branded her spiritual root. After she formed her golden core, all her cultivation would be transferred to the goddess, and in the end, she would lose even her spiritual root.

When she woke, Su Muyun destroyed her spiritual root and abandoned her cultivation. What the gods had bestowed, she returned to them. But what the gods had stolen, she would take back!

Theme: Love means giving everything to help someone else fulfill their heart's desire.