After My Assassination of the Villain Failed

# New novel launching in November: Please add "The Princess Who Walked Away Holds the Cremation-Ground Script" to your collection. Link at the end of Chapter 1

[Synopsis]

[Archrivals | Hilarious assassin heroine | From loving and killing each other to soul-deep understanding]

In the history books, Regent Li Wan is a villain through and through. For the throne, he launches a coup and betrays his country, plunging the Great Liang into misery.

When Lu Man transmigrates into the role of his newlywed wife, she has only one thought: kill the treacherous minister and save her country!

She knows she is not a very good assassin.

For example, the dagger she uses for an assassination attempt just happens to stab someone in their concealed armor.

Or the fine wine she has poisoned gets "accidentally" knocked to the ground by someone.

But that's all right. She fails again and again, then keeps trying again and again.

She gives herself to Li Wan, pretends to be tender, and waits for her chance. Working with the powerful clans, she drives him into a corner time after time.

Back then, she naively believed that Heaven had given her the chance to transmigrate so she could carry out one mission: eliminate Li Wan.

Until that day.

A vast sea of flames swept across the mountain peaks. In the inferno, Li Wan was trapped after she had mistakenly forced him to drink an aphrodisiac, thinking it was poison.

For the first time, Lu Man's murderous intent faltered.

As she rushed through the thick smoke to save him, she thought that a man like Li Wan deserved a fair and just judgment, even if he had to die, not such a wretched end.

She never imagined she would live by that thought for many years.

# The story begins: "Heaven gave the world me, Lu Erniang, so I may kill the treacherous in its name."

# The story ends: "If I cannot save him, I would rather never have existed."

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Li Wan has always known that his new wife, Lu Man, is strange.

A flying dart interrupted their wedding night, and on the morning after their wedding, he saw her pull out a dagger and say she wanted to test her skills.

She is just like some kind of assassin who lurks in the shadows, and a remarkably incompetent one at that.

But the dignified Regent, who prides himself on his ruthlessness and has never taken anyone seriously, sometimes has time to play the fool and fish for sympathy, which brings him plenty of benefits.

Whatever their motives, no one has ever stayed by his side for three or five years.

Sometimes, watching the young woman secretly tinker with hidden weapons beneath the garden trees, Li Wan even thinks that spending the rest of his life tangled up with her would not be such a bad kind of happiness.

His subordinate looks at the carefree prince, then at the tea his wife has specially sent over. He can't take it anymore.

"Your Highness, actually, perhaps, is it possible that your wife wants to kill you?"

How could that be impossible?

There's poison powder floating on that bowl of ink-dark tea.

Li Wan is practically laughing in exasperation. "Someone wants to be a heroine and uphold justice in Heaven's name..."

His subordinate holds his breath and is about to draw his sword,

when Li Wan throws back his head and drinks it all. "It would be terribly unromantic of me to refuse my wife's offer."

Watching the usually haughty and disdainful prince flop into his wife's arms with a whimper, begging for a hug,

the subordinate can only think: ??? What exactly did I miss?

# Perhaps this is what they mean: "What is love in this world? It makes people cross blades, tear out hearts, and rip out their guts."

Reader's Guide:

1. Plot-focused, with a substantial political intrigue arc.

2. Chapter summaries can be pieced together to follow the main plot. If the chapters feel too long, you can read the titles and summaries together.

3. Set in a fictional world, with official ranks and customs inspired by the Northern and Southern Dynasties. I have done my best to portray the transition from aristocratic clans to a bureaucratic system. There is a lot of mixing and matching, so please forgive any inaccuracies.

4. One-on-one, both leads' first times, and the main story is very steamy.

5. [Separate warnings for the extras] 1. Bad ending! 2. First-person narration. 3. Reborn. 4. Explains some things that happened before the marriage. Everything will fall into place once you read it. I'm very clever! 5. You can also read it as a standalone story.

[Upcoming Novel]

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"The Princess Who Walked Away Holds the Cremation-Ground Script"

At sixteen, Song Cisui left Southern Chu with Murong Yuan and traveled far away to Northern Yan, posing as his personal maid.

Everyone in the capital said the country girl from Southern Chu was lucky. The Third Prince, who had always looked down on everyone, had never brought anyone back to the capital before.

Only Song Cisui knew the truth.

She was no country girl. She was a princess of Southern Chu.

Nor was she his personal maid. She and Murong Yuan had already married back in Southern Chu.

She hoped Murong Yuan would explain things, but her A-Yuan, once so gentle in Southern Chu, changed completely. He locked her inside the palace walls, his menacing expression frightening her terribly.

He even tore up the letters she sent back to Southern Chu, sneering at her, "Southern Chu is full of treacherous ambition. If I catch you colluding with the enemy again, the next thing I send back won't be a family letter, but a declaration of war."

As she watched the scraps flutter through the air, she did not tell Murong Yuan that she had not been colluding with the enemy. She was pregnant and had sent her mother the happy news.

After that, she never asked him another question. For Southern Chu's safety, she accepted Murong Yuan's imprisonment and mistreatment without a flicker of emotion.

*

No one knows how Murong Yuan rose from being an illegitimate son abandoned outside the palace to reclaiming his place in the imperial family, step by step.

By the time the world saw him, he was already Northern Yan's most dazzling prince, decisive and ruthless, with his sights set on the throne.

The capital's most powerful families lined up to marry their daughters to him. He should have chosen the most capable and well-born young lady. If he had not been on the brink of death in Southern Chu and needed to trick Song Cisui into saving him, he would never have married a princess so poorly regarded.

When he returned to the capital, the first thing he did was sever his ties with Song Cisui.

The young woman was well-behaved enough. She neither cried nor made a fuss, and when he threatened Southern Chu a little, she even found all sorts of ways to please him.

The women of Southern Chu were gentle and understanding. After drifting through life for so long, Murong Yuan had rarely met anyone as thoughtful and delightful as Song Cisui.

Murong Yuan sympathized with how hard it must be for her to live alone in Northern Yan. Now that his power was growing, he thought he could consummate their marriage, grant her a proper title, and let her have a child or two to secure her place. It would not be a bad idea.

But when he went to find her a wedding dress, his heart brimming with anticipation, all he found was a letter of divorce.

That seemingly timid little maid had escaped his confinement and gone alone to the battlefield to save her country?!

At last, this man who held the power of life and death over the world, and had never cared about anyone's life, learned what it meant to be afraid.

# They say a man started a war among three kingdoms for the sake of a maid, but no one knows that the person he wants to save was once a noble young lady from a military family who could shoot a willow leaf from a hundred paces.

Theme: Though thousands stand in my way, I will go.