Tao Xing died.
Her entire family was executed, their estate fell into ruin, and the bones of the third young lady of the wealthiest Tao family in the capital were shattered into pieces in the springtime, among the peach blossoms.
Six years later, a mysterious phantom thief called Qianji appeared in the capital. She came and went without a trace, impossible to catch, and left a brilliant peach blossom wherever she went.
*
At nineteen, Tao Qianji was cornered at the end of an alley. A man said to her, “Look up at me.”
She did not look up, because she would always think of thirteen-year-old Tao Xing.
As she knelt over her brother's corpse, she had looked up to wipe the blood from her eyes. She had seen him in this very alley too: a corner of a carriage curtain had been lifted, revealing the handsome profile of a clean-cut young man inside, raising a hand to read.
“The master instructed us that the young master took a wrong turn. Don't let him see the bloodshed.”
The boy took a hurried glance, then the curtain fell. The young lady was killed out of sight.
PS:
1. Blurb written on January 11, 2024.
2. One-on-one romance, happy ending.
3. This is not a conventional second-chance-at-life story.
4. The male lead is decided. I'm not telling.
5. There will be mystery cases.
6. This blurb was written in a hurry and will be revised. The character names are temporary and may be changed.
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