The Whole Capital Fears the Duke's Wife

On the day the third young master of the Xie family got married, all the unmarried young ladies in the capital were in tears.

Which shameless woman had stolen their refined and elegant, handsome gentleman? They were going to teach her a lesson!

The bride, Lin Yiyi, wiped down her eighty-centimeter goose-feather saber. “What did you say?”

Everyone hurriedly shook their heads. “Nothing.”

They’d almost forgotten. She used to be an assassin.

Years later, the entire capital still couldn’t figure out how the Duke of Dingguo had ended up with an assassin.

Lin Yiyi: “You might not believe this, but when he was courting me, he actually offered a huge sum to hire me to kill him. What if I’d actually done it? Don’t you think there’s something wrong with him?”

As an assassin, Lin Yiyi never imagined that one day she’d turn her target into her partner. To keep her partner alive, she decided to break the contract and kill the client instead.

But when she lifted the client’s veil and saw who was underneath, she froze.

Isn’t this my partner?

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Chen Yuan knew that after her birth mother died, her father’s heart had turned rotten.

So when she learned that her father and stepmother were planning to marry her off as a second wife to a widower, she left without looking back and went to seek help from her aunt, who had married into a family in the capital.

Unfortunately, she didn’t have much money with her. With no other choice, she “borrowed” some travel money from a young gentleman passing by.

Half a month later, when she went to the Duke of Zhenguo’s residence to reunite with her family, the heir, Lu Huai, had just returned from investigating a case. He jangled the money pouch and a meaningful glint flashed in his eyes. “This cousin of mine, I feel like I’ve seen her somewhere before.”

Chen Yuan: ...

My cousin, whom I’ve never met, has had his money pouch stolen by me, and now he’s about to expose who I really am. What should I do?

Lu Huai knew that the cousin who had come to live with his family was nothing like the frail and harmless girl she seemed to be.

An ordinary young lady from a respectable family wouldn’t have the skill to pick his pocket.

Just wait. Sooner or later, he’d uncover every last one of her secrets and show everyone what she was really like.

Later, he really did strip her bare, but he no longer wanted anyone else to see her.

Theme: Happiness must be pursued for yourself. If there’s no opportunity, make one