The Lady Killer's Deadly Love Scheme

Five years ago, Chi Linyuan vanished without a trace after leaving her with one command: “Don’t kill anyone.”

Five years later, Chi Linyuan shut the city gates after tossing out the words, “Do you think she’s worth an entire city?”

None of that mattered. An Youlan considered all the suffering she had endured over the years repayment for what she owed him. What she wanted was to find her senior fellow apprentice, far away in the Western Regions.

She trampled over heaps of bones and fought her way toward her senior, only to discover that before she arrived, someone else had already taken a place by Rong Yang’s side, a woman she could never hope to measure up to…

With an imperial decree hanging over him, the man who had sworn to love her forever entered the prince’s residence and never came out.

Amid mountains of corpses, the person she cared for so deeply pushed her into the brutal reality that awaited when she woke from her dream.

In a dark prison, the sworn friend with whom she had pledged to spend a lifetime drank poison and died.

One lie after another wove a web that left An Youlan utterly exhausted…

At the end of the long, distant road, An Youlan finally discovered that the person waiting there was the one she hated most.

In a dilapidated house, Chi Linyuan said, “In my heart, you come first, then my parents. But I will never begrudge you anything I can give.”

Beneath the green locust tree, Chi Linyuan said, “Now that you’re home, come inside.”

With enemy forces at the city gates, Chi Linyuan said, “Swordplay and battle are men’s business. Just stay at the Green Locust Courtyard.”

And so, amid the deafening war drums, An Youlan waited for him to return in his armor. Through the storm, she waited to see whether he would truly protect her…