Concealed Edge: I Am the Crown Prince of the Night

By day, Lin Jin, Crown Prince of the Tianhao Dynasty, is a frail scholar praised by everyone. He never puts down a book, has gentle features, and is always deferential before his tutor. At court, he scarcely dares to meet the generals' eyes. But when dusk settles and the palace lanterns begin to glow, another soul awakens in the secret chamber deep within the Eastern Palace. He is the Crown Prince beneath the night sky, the sharpest blade in the emperor's shadow. Outside, the Northern Mang cavalry watches hungrily and repeatedly invades the frontier. Within the court, Ninth Prince Lin Yu forms factions and secretly allies himself with the Grand Preceptor, closing in step by step in an attempt to seize the crown prince's position. Officials throughout the court sigh that the heir is too weak to shoulder great responsibilities. None of them know that every dark night, this “frail” crown prince dons black armor and a mask, slipping through the shadowed alleys and over the high walls of the capital. He infiltrates the enemy camp alone and takes the heads of three barbarian generals in a single night, hanging them at the frontier command gate; He secretly investigates the canal transport case and quietly places evidence of his Grand Preceptor's trusted aide embezzling a million taels of official silver on his father's desk; On the roof of the Hundred Flowers Tower, he draws his bow beneath the bright moon and sends an arrow through a foreign spy who was trying to poison a loyal general. Every time his blade emerges from the darkness, he removes a threat to the state and secures peace for the people. By day, he keeps his edge sheathed and endures the insults of being a “cowardly heir.” By night, he reveals his full sharpness, using killing to stop killing and bearing the dynasty's heaviest shadow. Until one night, the Ninth Prince lays a trap from which there is no escape. Amid towering flames, countless crossbows are aimed at the black-clad assassin whose identity has finally been exposed. Lin Jin slowly removes his mask, revealing a face identical to the Crown Prince's. As the crowd stares in shock, a cold, arrogant smile curls across his lips: