Lotus Lanterns in the Dark

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In a nutshell: [Please tell the organization this man really can't be killed!]

Corrupt officials rule, and the world lies in darkness.

Cheng Mo joined the Lotus Lantern organization just to earn a living and stay alive. After all, her whole family gave their lives to save hers.

But the organization doesn't keep idle people around, and it assigned her a mission: eliminate the treacherous minister and restore the emperor's just rule.

Cheng Mo stakes out the treacherous minister's home and thinks the organization is being a little greedy.

Rumor has it that the capital's most notorious minister is devilishly clever and bloodthirsty, with guards everywhere. She'd probably be killed before she could get close.

The minister draws closer. Cheng Mo rubs her eyes and thinks he looks awfully familiar!

Isn't that the young man she once took in for a while?

Even the ants passing by would tell her that fortune has finally smiled on her: the kindness of giving him shelter is worth more than anything.

But before he even reaches her, she covers her face and runs, regretting all the awful things she did to him when she was young and reckless.

The next moment, she runs into a wall of a man. She slowly looks up and meets a pair of eyes as cold as an ice cellar.

Cheng Mo stiffly pulls out her broken little lotus lantern and makes a wish.

"Hey, you've really made something of yourself. How about you take me in this time?"

Xiao Zhuo is the youngest grand secretary in the land, cold and merciless, keeping everyone at arm's length.

Yet before one person alone, he is gentle as water, his eyes full of affection.

In her youth, she was a highborn lady, bold and unruly. When they meet again, she acts meek and ingratiating.

Xiao Zhuo watches her silently, waiting for her fox's tail to show.

"My residence doesn't keep idle people. It just so happens I'm in need of a wife."

She insults people with her face, yet pretends to be well-behaved.

In the years that follow, the grand secretary's residence shines like a lotus lantern in the dark of night.

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine isn't a lovesick fool. She bears a blood feud and fights to survive.

2. The hero lives in purgatory but has light in his heart! The heroine is a lotus lantern flowing through the dark river of his soul!

3. [Highborn Lady Fallen from Grace x Grand Secretary and Powerful Minister Who Seems Cool and Aloof but Gradually Goes Yandere]

4. Plot + ensemble cast + mutual salvation

Theme: The human heart always turns toward the light.