Limited-Time Confession

[Complete! If you bought the whole book, please leave a five-star review~] [I'm jumping the queue with my next book, "The Princess and the Assassin," a niche favorite: a wuxia jianghu story about a cold-faced assassin and a sunny princess.] Su An grew up in an orphanage. She was withdrawn, reserved, and world-weary, but wore a mask of false kindness. Then, in her first year of high school, she was adopted, entering an unfamiliar family for the third time. She played the obedient, sweet girl, doing her best to avoid conflict with her sister, who disliked her. But the day after she came home injured, that same sister, who had never even looked her in the eye, went alone to take on a whole gang of thugs who had bullied her. Su An applied medicine to her wounds and asked why she had done it. Li Qinghe stared straight at her, then suddenly gripped her chin. "Only I get to bully what's mine." She later learned that Li Qinghe was extremely possessive. In that family, not only were their parents hers, but Su An, who had just arrived, belonged to her too. For all three years of high school, they secretly shared a room, slept in the same bed, wore the same dress, and used the same bathroom. They were inseparable. But Li Qinghe's possessiveness was too strong. Even when Su An walked home with someone else, Li Qinghe would bite her shoulder hard as a warning. Su An loved Li Qinghe, but also found her possessiveness suffocating. Throughout the years she was trapped in that cage, she resisted it and relished it in equal measure. So when her biological parents came looking for her, she left without hesitation and flew to another city with them. She and Li Qinghe lost contact, but countless times in the middle of the night, she would remember those intensely predatory eyes, as if they were about to swallow her whole. Su An knew that no one in the world loved her as much as Li Qinghe did. Even the dark, selfish, despicable version of her. Seven years after they parted, Su An saw Li Qinghe drunk out of her mind in a bar. Someone had slipped a white pill into Li Qinghe's drink. Just as she was about to drink it, Su An stepped forward and grabbed her hand. Li Qinghe slowly raised her head and smiled at her. "Long time no see, Su An." Su An tried to take her away, but Li Qinghe pried her fingers off one by one. "What right do you have to interfere with me?" Su An fell silent. "Only my girlfriend can take me away. Su An, have you made up your mind?" That night, beneath the dim, heavy play of light and shadow, the usually composed Su An drank the glass of wine. "I'll be your girlfriend." Clever as she was, how could she not know the pill was a vitamin? It was all just one of Li Qinghe's little tricks. But when they met again, she was willing to sink into the web Li Qinghe had spun. The line they hadn't crossed in three years of high school was crossed in a single night. But Su An never expected that when she woke up at the hotel, Li Qinghe would be holding her clothes. Li Qinghe tapped on her phone screen and asked in a low voice, "Who's Mengmeng?" Su An hesitated for two seconds, unsure how to explain her connection to a blind date she hadn't even met yet. She was trapped in the hotel for the next three days. Every day, Li Qinghe asked her, "Who's prettier, Mengmeng or me?" Su An: "..." Su An would gently kiss her hair. "I love you most of all, Li Qinghe." "Come closer, embrace me, and you can only ever belong to me." An extremely possessive, obsessive, unhinged older sister type who loves doting on her younger sister x a younger top who seems harmless but is actually cold and world-weary Here's my pre-release, "The Princess and the Assassin," launching October 8. Qing Luo has a lively name, but her work deals in bloodshed. She's the top assassin of the Wuxiang Sect, known as "Sha." From the moment she picked up a knife at four years old, she never once failed. In sixteen years, countless souls have died beneath her blade. But one day, she unexpectedly received a mission to protect someone. - The Xiao Dynasty had been weak for a hundred years, until the arrival of Xiao Jinxuan, an emperor with ruthless methods and a meticulous mind. Her younger sister, Xiao Jinhua, was innocent and beautiful, adored by everyone. But she had no love for palace life and insisted on venturing into the jianghu. Just as the martial arts tournament held once every five years was about to begin, Xiao Jinhua wanted to go see it for herself. So the Wuxiang Sect received a lucrative commission: protect Xiao Jinhua. When they first met, she wore black and bowed with clasped hands. "Suiying Sect, Qing Luo." The bright-eyed little princess gazed at her and smiled. "Oh, what a beautiful older sister!" The princess wasn't at all haughty. Instead, she served her food, bandaged her wounds, and followed after her, calling her "Older Sister." Qing Luo had seen many dead people, but had hardly ever spent time with the living. She had never felt so carefree, so carefree that she almost forgot she was an assassin. For the first time, when she killed, she thought not of how to end her target's life quickly. Instead, she turned around and covered the princess's eyes. She thought those bright eyes shouldn't have to see blood. - Two years later, Qing Luo received a mission: kill Xiao Jinhua. For the first time, the number one assassin on the rankings, "Sha," failed to complete her mission. The first rule of the Wuxiang Sect: Never fall in love. Qing Luo broke the rule and was imprisoned in the Infernal Prison. The famously cheerful and innocent Princess Jinhua charged into the Wuxiang Sect with a whip in hand, her voice icy. "Hand over Qing Luo, or I'll destroy the Wuxiang Sect." *Jianghu / court politics / ensemble cast / romance-focused *A self-indulgent passion project Theme: Rise from the ashes and turn the tables in the depths of despair.