[Psycho x laid-back slacker, comedic everyday life]
The powerful Great Wei was advancing aggressively, and the rulers of the smaller states grew uneasy. One after another, they offered up their carefully trained beauties, all assassins.
They had heard that the tyrant Beiming Yu was bloodthirsty and unpredictable, and that anyone sent to him was likely doomed. The beauties wore solemn expressions.
Tan Jinjin: That thigh looks pretty sturdy. I want to cling to it~
So she wouldn't be ostracized, she went along with everyone else in public. She got up before dawn to curse Beiming Yu and his ancestors for eighteen generations, then stayed up at night burning lamps to stick pins in his voodoo doll. Sob, this is exhausting~
Besides music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and song, each beauty had a special skill, such as deadly poisons and hidden weapons, medicinal cuisine, or bedroom techniques...
The pressure fell on the office-worker slacker who couldn't do any of those things.
"Um... would court gossip work?"
From then on, the stories just kept coming: the wealthy family's scheming stepmother and Mary Sue, the domineering CEO's stand-in for his moonlight, kidney harvesting and an abortion followed by a runaway pregnant woman, and the fake heiress and real heiress switching places in an arranged marriage...
The tyrant listened with rapt attention. Every time he decided to kill the woman at the end of the story, a new tale would appear. And so he listened through a thousand and one nights...
*
Beiming Yu had a little-known secret: he could see people's emotions change.
The women sent as tribute all had their own agendas. Their colorful emotions made his head ache: angry red, greedy yellow, brave blue, black with hatred...
He had them all dragged out and executed.
Hm? Who is that?
Pink bubbles were floating over her head...
[Reading Guide]
Happy ending, both leads' first time, sweet romance
Theme: An existentialist-style redemption
