Cold-Faced, Sharp-Tongued Assassin x Smiling, Scheming Crown Prince
After Xie Zhihan was rescued by Chu Nanting, she became his finest weapon. She moved among the mansions of the capital's powerful and wealthy on his behalf, becoming the cold-blooded assassin whose name struck terror into everyone who heard it. In secret, she also paved the road that would lead him to the highest throne.
She had long been accustomed to keeping her heart cold and her feelings hidden. The one time she ever lost her composure was on the day Chu Nanting was married. She turned down every assignment, changed into men's clothes, and went to a brothel to drink. After several rounds, through her drunken haze, Xie Zhihan spotted a delicate, frail, peerlessly beautiful young man.
Already feeling stifled and restless, she simply crooked a finger at the "beauty." "Come here."
After one night together, she forgot all about him and continued living a life with her blade at Chu Nanting's side. But fate had other plans. During an assassination, someone set her up, and just as her identity was about to be exposed, she ran into that handsome "beauty" again.
More precisely, she ran into Chi Ye, the crown prince of the realm.
Chi Ye raised an eyebrow and looked at her, seemingly surprised. She steeled herself and hooked an arm around his neck. "Help me this once, and I won't tell anyone about... um, that thing."
She, Xie Zhihan, had never been afraid of anyone. So what if he was the crown prince? She had his weakness in her hands. Surely she could make him bow his head and submit.
But why was this "subject" so clingy?!
On the night upheaval broke out in the capital, she shook the blood from her sword and turned on Chi Ye, furious. "Are you looking for a death wish?"
For the first time, the crown prince, revered by all as an aloof and noble immortal, had lost his smile.
"I'm not looking for death," he said calmly. Ignoring her resistance, he took her icy, bloodstained hand. "I'm here to arrest someone."
*
Xie Zhihan had never given much thought to anything. For the dozen or so years before, all she had was Chu Nanting. She rarely thought about those cold, foul-smelling nights of rain, and she rarely wondered why, even when she was most infatuated with him, she still felt a loneliness that cut to the bone.
But now that it was all in the past, she had even less reason to dwell on it. All she knew was that the cold rain had vanished from the rest of her life. Before her stretched clear skies and an endless blue sea.
She would never feel lonely again, because someone was standing beside her, watching it all with her.
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Theme: Treat others with sincerity.
