The Assassin and Her Frail Disciple

Ling Lan, a police academy graduate, hadn't even started her job when she became a cannon-fodder passerby at the mercy of bandits. When she woke up, she discovered she had become an ancient assassin.

The System told her that if she killed ten bosses, she would be reborn.

That night, she intercepted her first boss.

But after looking at him just one time in the moonlight, she couldn't bring herself to strike again.

The boy gazed at her with clear eyes and called her, "Master." Then he came up and kissed the hem of her robe.

Ling Lan shuddered, dropped her sword, and fled.

She wanted to curse the System. This harmless-looking, puppy-like, beautiful young man was supposedly the future demon lord who would destroy the world?

But the System said that if he was a boss, then a boss he was. The System had never been wrong.

So she kept the boss by her side, planning to run him through with her sword the instant he showed signs of turning evil.

Boss: "Master."

Ling Lan: "D-don't call me Master."

Boss: "Yes, sir."

Ling Lan: "...Don't call me sir either." (Though she did act pretty tough around her beautiful, gentle, frail younger brother.)

Boss: "..." (A bewildered, wounded little look.)

Ling Lan: "...Why not call me Shifu?"

And so began her ongoing inner struggle: "Has the boss turned evil today?" and "Has my puppy-like disciple turned into a rabid dog yet?"

Guide: The everyday life of a reluctant, timid assassin forced to do missions and flirt with her disciple (no, be flirted with by him).

One-on-one, happy ending

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Song Yichu met her friend's son, Si Yan, at the airport. The shy, obedient little boy she remembered had grown into a wild seventeen-year-old troublemaker.

She shook her head. His hair had to go. Those messy tattoos had to be removed.

While entrusted with the responsibility of being his guardian, she discovered that beneath the boy's unruly, irritable exterior was a deeply lonely and closed-off inner world.

After gradually helping this troubled boy become more normal, she found that her own world was starting to become abnormal.

The male colleague who had always liked her, and only needed one last nudge to confess, suddenly started avoiding her. The wealthy bachelor who had been pursuing her vanished without explanation. The easygoing blind date she'd gotten along with blocked her without warning...

She had become a magnet for rejection by men.

Then, on his eighteenth birthday, she celebrated with him and got drunk. When she discovered the boy secretly kissing her fingers, she finally realized what his biggest problem was.

He said, "You're destined to be unwanted. Why not wait for me to grow up..."

She shook her head. "You can't."

The boy crooked his lips. "I mean, wait for me to grow up so I can support you in your old age!"

Guide: Gentle, sweet older woman x obsessive, possessive younger man (the leads are eight years apart)

One-on-one, happy ending

Theme: With your heart turned toward the sun, what is there to fear in the darkness?