After Failing to Assassinate the Powerful Minister

[Complete. 50% of the chapters are protected from spoilers. Thank you for supporting the official version!] Blurb 1: The top-ranked assassin of the Life-Taking Sect, whose motto is "Take their money, take their life," accepts a job worth ten thousand taels of silver: Kill Cen Xian, the Great Wei court's lackey and the current Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Shuowang, seeing only the money, heads to the capital. On a rainy night, he comes face-to-face with the infamous commander, feared by both ghosts and men. Then the commander ties him up with a rope and takes him back to the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Everyone in the Life-Taking Sect and the Embroidered Uniform Guard: Hooray! A meetup between the civilian and government organizations!!! Shuowang: ???? Blurb 2: "I haven't forgotten a single move from the game we never finished." Free-spirited, wild Jianghu wanderer (Shuowang) x ruthless hound of the court (Cen Xian) [Please note] 1. They are vers. 2. The romance may be a little slow-burn. 3. An alternate history setting. Please don't nitpick the details. 4. The author's views do not necessarily reflect those of the characters, and vice versa. 5. Although this is labeled a serious drama, the author isn't very good, so there may be plenty of plot holes. This silly author will do their best to keep the logic consistent. Blurb saved as of January 5, 2022. --- Now serializing next door --- Please add to your reading list --- Halfway Childhood Friends [Vers] During Ningcheng's scorching summer, Xu Du gets a cheap stepfather and, along with him, a cheap older brother named Yu Zhaoqing. His cheap older brother Yu Zhaoqing is an excellent student, the model of good conduct and academic achievement. He's a promising candidate for a top university in the eyes of his teachers, an example parents use to motivate their kids, a heartthrob to the younger students, and the go-to person for study tips among the older ones. And Xu Du... Xu Du is an utterly hopeless student whose total score across all nine subjects doesn't even reach 300. He's an eccentric teenager with a few screws loose. Ever since he got an older brother, Xu Du has been compared to him every day and lost every time. Xu Du: ... Damn it. A year after his grandmother's death, Yu Zhaoqing moves to Ningcheng with his father, Yu Youshan. In a cramped little room, he meets his stepmother's sixteen-year-old son, Xu Du. He has no idea what he did to offend the kid, but right after they introduce themselves, Xu Du bites him hard, leaving a tooth mark that takes ages to fade. Yu Zhaoqing: ... What a handful. Xu Du is as fierce as the blazing sun, while Yu Zhaoqing is as gentle as water. They seem like a pair who could never have anything to do with each other. But neither Xu Du nor Yu Zhaoqing expected that they, like two people running in opposite directions along opposite sides of a line, racing toward different destinations with a gap of tens of thousands of miles between them, a distance even Sun Wukong could barely cover in a single somersault, would somehow end up together. And never be parted again. Theme: Cherish every person by your side.