After the Top Assassin Killed the Wrong Person

[The blurb for my next novel, Intelligence Unknown, Luck Off the Charts, is at the end.]

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Xi Lin was the Great Xia Empire's number one assassin, with a swift blade and a cold heart. He appeared and disappeared without a trace, and in ten years had an impressive record with no failures.

Just as he was about to retire, he received the organization's highest-difficulty assignment: assassinate Yan Wu, ruler of the enemy state.

To retire as soon as possible, Xi Lin accepted the mission and set off alone.

But the organization's intelligence was wrong. A small mistake in the portrait had turned his target into Xuan Prince Yan Huan, who looked ninety percent like ruler Yan Wu.

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Yan Huan, Xuan Prince of An, had taken over the government because his imperial brother Yan Wu was seriously ill. Yet every few days, an assassin from Xia tried to kill him.

The assassin poisoned his tea. He turned around and swapped it for the poisoned tea in his imperial brother's cup.

The assassin tried to kill him in his sleep with a single blow. He casually swapped his unconscious imperial brother in to take the hit.

After the assassin pursued him for a whole month, Yan Huan finally lost patience and decided to teach him a lesson.

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Xi Lin suffered the greatest setback of his assassin career.

He tried everything he could, yet couldn't hurt that tyrant at all. The other man drank his poisoned tea and remained unharmed. He took a fatal stab from Xi Lin, then woke up the next day without a single mark on his body.

Xi Lin was stunned: The ruler of An is terrifying.

The number one assassin refused to give up and brought out his last trick. He had heard the ruler of An was attracted to men, so he gritted his teeth, hid poison between his teeth and a blade in his sleeve, and climbed into the man's bed.

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Later, Xi Lin completed the mission by a twist of fate and returned to Xia to report in, only to be silenced by his organization.

Yan Huan, the Xuan Prince who had tricked him into a night of passion, rode alone into Xia from a thousand miles away. In the midst of a tight encirclement, he hauled Xi Lin onto his horse. "This man is mine."

A scheming, smiling fox of a prince, a black-hearted top x

A first-rate assassin bottom who needs a demon-exorcising calico cat

Reader's Guide:

- One-on-one, bottom's perspective, happy ending. Both leads are highly skilled in martial arts. The top excels at direct combat, while the bottom specializes in assassination.

- The bottom was raised as an assassin from childhood. He only learned how to kill, not how to live, and his thought process is extremely unusual. You can't understand him using ordinary logic.

- The top and his imperial brother hate each other. The imperial brother is no good person.

- No gender swaps, reverse pairings, self-shipping, character-control wars, or other strange fetishes in the comments. Related comments will be deleted. 🚫🚫🚫

- Fictional setting during a time of turmoil. Please don't nitpick historical accuracy.

Blurb for Intelligence Unknown, Luck Off the Charts:

Song Qishan died unexpectedly on the day he graduated from university. When he opened his eyes, he found he had transmigrated to ancient times and become the youngest son of Lord Song, Minister of Revenue.

The child was born frail and afflicted with a condition called "lost soul." At twenty, he was still vacant and foolish, with the intelligence of a three-year-old. He didn't even recognize his parents, and whenever anything happened, he could only call for his elder brother.

Even so, the entire Song family treated the child like a treasure, giving him fine clothes and food, caring for him attentively, and never scolding him.

Song Qishan, whose parents were both dead and who had worked his way through school, wept with gratitude: Heaven has finally shown mercy!

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Recently, the Song household discovered that their young master, who had been afflicted by lost soul for twenty years, had miraculously recovered on his own. Not only were his words and actions now normal, he also brought nearly unbelievable good luck to everyone around him.

When Lord Song went out to buy his youngest son a sweet pastry, he happened to avoid a runaway horse injuring someone on the street, escaping a bloody disaster.

The Song family's eldest son, Song Tingyuan, worked at the Court of Judicial Review. He casually helped his younger brother catch the thief who had stolen his money pouch, only to discover that the thief was a notorious bandit wanted by the authorities for three years.

The whole Song family went on an outing to celebrate the youngest son's recovery, and accidentally avoided a bloody political power struggle that implicated countless people.

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People in the capital said that the youngest Song son was a great genius who seemed foolish, concealing his talent for twenty years and living in seclusion. In truth, he was blessed with immense fortune, with purple energy rising from him to the heavens. Anyone who offended him would suffer terrible misfortune, while anyone who helped him would enjoy tremendous luck.

For a time, the capital's powerful families flocked to him, nearly breaking down the Song household's doors. Upon hearing that Song Qishan liked men, they immediately offered their pampered sons to him.

But the Song family's eldest son sent them all away.

Song Tingyuan, Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, opened the case files and listed the candidates one by one:

"A lecher, unacceptable."

"A compulsive gambler, unacceptable."

"Attacked several people with a weapon and is still at large... Come with me to the Court of Judicial Review for a little chat."

Song Qishan: ovo

Song Qishan: It's so nice to have an older brother. He looks after me and keeps all the bad romantic prospects away.

Song Qishan: ...Wait a minute, why are you in my bed, brother?

An extremely protective, gentle, black-hearted top x a cheerful, lively bottom who leans on his older brother

Brother-obsessed bottom x brother-obsessed top. The leads are not blood-related.

Theme: Turmoil will end, and peace will come.