The Assassin Heads South to Jiangnan

Please add my new story next door, The Storybook Empress, to your favorites~~ Blurb at the end.

Blurb:

The martial world's largest assassin organization was wiped out in a single night. Flames lit up the sky, and charred corpses littered the ground.

The court burned everything and clapped its hands. "All the assassins are dead. Job done."

But the martial world said, "There's more to this than meets the eye." An examination proved that the corpses were indeed fake.

Several days later, a battered carriage rolled leisurely toward Jiangnan. A few days after that, a new Jiang Family Clinic opened in the prosperous city of Xiaochun.

The Jiang family had five members. The clinic's owner, Jiang Heng, was tall and imposing. His beautiful wife was Ying Menglian, and they had a lovely daughter, Jiang Yueming, a young son, Jiang Fengqing, and a disciple, Lang Yunhe, whom they had raised since childhood.

They were all strikingly beautiful and warmhearted, and the people of Xiaochun adored them.

One late night, Jiang Yueming, whom the townspeople considered "petite and delicate," leaped onto the tallest old tree in Xiaochun. Her alluring eyes gleamed in the dark.

Behind her, Lang Yunhe, who was supposedly "frail and sickly," calmly fanned himself as he watched the stars and moon with her.

What no one else knew was that they were assassins from the Shadow Pavilion.

What even fewer people knew was that the entire family were Shadow Pavilion assassins.

The martial world was in turmoil. A huge bounty was placed on the Shadow Pavilion assassins who had faked their deaths and gone into hiding, and Xiaochun was suddenly surrounded by danger.

The assassins said:

"What? You don't believe we're ordinary people?"

"Fine. There's a mass grave outside the north gate."

[The setting is fictional, fictional, fictional]

---- Blurb for The Storybook Empress ----

Le Xiangfeng, nicknamed Zhouzhou, is a lazy woman with amnesia.

She won't work, but she will enjoy the good life.

Her benefactor's maid can't stand it and spends all day making snide remarks behind her back.

Zhouzhou still refuses to work and tries to find an easy way to make money quickly.

Most people with amnesia go to a doctor. She goes to a fortune-teller.

The fortune-teller sees that she can read, makes a few calculations, and declares that she is destined to write storybooks.

Zhouzhou asks, "Can you make money writing storybooks?"

The fortune-teller says, "How vulgar."

Zhouzhou remains determined not to work, but to support herself, she sets out to become a storybook queen.

She has no wealth, but all the ailments of the wealthy.

Before Zhouzhou has earned a penny from writing storybooks, she's already taken in a handsome man. Strangely enough, ever since he came to live with her, she has hardly had to spend money on food, clothing, housing, or transportation.

Everything goes smoothly for Zhouzhou. Someone beats up the villains for her, someone else pays for her lodging, and all she has to do is dress up beautifully and write a few lighthearted stories on the side.

Zhouzhou thinks she'll get rich from writing storybooks. But when she looks back, she realizes that with her amnesia, empty pockets, and a man in her life, she seems more like a character in a storybook herself.

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The Great Li dynasty has a Princess Consort Ronghe, known for her spoiled and headstrong ways. It's said that she likes talented scholars. Rumor has it that after the capital's top scholar returned her scented sachet, she stormed out of the city in a fit of anger.

Zhouzhou is stranded in a foreign land with an empty head. By a twist of fate, she saves Luo Tingfeng's life. She thinks he's clinging to her so he can live off her, never imagining that he's actually an idle general who's just returned from the battlefield.

Zhouzhou doesn't wait on other people. She's the one who gets waited on.

Luo Tingfeng serves her so well that Zhouzhou is satisfied and decides to let him wait on her for the rest of their lives.

[A devoted puppy who loves kissing x a proud, pampered darling]

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