Coming out this month
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Shadow House's A Fu, the Great Jin's top assassin, spent ten years biding her time alongside the current emperor and helped him kill his father to seize the throne.
The world fears her reputation, but no one knows the emperor's shadow guard is a woman.
To him, she is more than a trusted aide.
They spent night after night together, promising to live and die as one, but after ascending the throne, he began taking in noblewomen. A Fu's heart turned to ashes. She cut ties with him and angrily left the palace, then accidentally fell off a cliff and lost her memory.
After she woke, a handsome young gentleman told her that he was the Marquis of Xishan from Yinzhou.
And she, Zheng Mi, was his concubine.
A year later, he saw that same face again in Ye Capital. But she was smiling and laughing, calling another man her husband. Looking at her gentle, docile manner, she didn't resemble the old acquaintance who had killed without blinking in the slightest.
Everyone told him A Fu was dead and that this woman merely had a similar face. The emperor paid them no heed, acting as if he had gone mad, utterly convinced he couldn't be mistaken.
He ignored the condemnation and forcibly kept a courtier's wife in the palace. He pleaded with her time and again, but she always retreated from him in tears. As candlelight flickered and shattered, the woman beneath him suddenly changed expression and smiled sweetly:
"Your Majesty, do I still look like A Fu to you?"
Reading guide:
: The world's top assassin / a king who killed his father and usurped the throne
: Fictional setting inspired by the Han dynasty
: The woman has no prior experience; the man does
: Open ending
: No major age gap
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Coming next: Ying Huan
Theme: Better to rely on yourself than beg others
