The Female Marquis

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[The outwardly gentle but secretly ruthless female assassin × the charming young master of an aristocratic clan who hides a dark side]

[Marriage Before Love]

[Love and Hate]

Xu Qingqian was an assassin. People like her were as insignificant as ants, and all she thought about each day was how to stay alive.

But one day, as the newly successful imperial examination graduates rode through the streets, she saw Zhou Huai'an, the proud and carefree top-ranked graduate.

He was the most outstanding among the scions of noble families, favored by the emperor and admired by noblewomen. He never had to scrabble desperately just to survive.

In that moment, she suddenly thought, I wish I could live like him.

She never imagined that she would end up marrying him in someone else's place. Though he had no feelings for her, he still treated her exceptionally well.

Her attendant warned her, "Zhou Huai'an is a flirt who excels at winning women over. He treats you with such tenderness and consideration that I'm afraid you'll fall under his spell."

But she replied, "To find one true love and stay together until old age is what many people want, but it isn't what I want."

She also said, "Zhou Huai'an is a fine man, but what I want is to have my name inscribed in the Hall of Lingyan, and to become a general and a marquis."

Later, she became the first woman in the history of Great Zhou to be ennobled as a marquis for her military achievements.

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The Runan Zhou clan was renowned throughout the land. A man like Zhou Huai'an ought to have married a noblewoman of equal standing, but circumstances forced him to marry the Prince of Yan's adopted daughter, a woman of humble birth.

He was always perceptive and discerning. From their first meeting, he saw that his new bride was no ordinary woman, however flawlessly she concealed it.

Little by little, she let things slip. He had thought she was merely a guard under the Prince of Yan's heir, never suspecting that she was the woman who had held a lonely city against all odds, never taken a step back, and slain the great marshal of Northern Yan.

She said she had come on the Prince of Yan's heir's orders to form an alliance. He was intrigued, his heart stirred, and he wanted her to become his true wife.

But he knew she had come for revenge, to overthrow the court and topple the realm.

A person like her should have been eliminated at the first opportunity.

Premise: Everyone has the right to love, and the right to live well.