short series

Thorned Kiss of Love

share time: 2026-03-08 12:36:15

Assassin Su Wan is hired to kill Lu Zhao, a powerful minister. Disguised as a maid, she’s melted by his tenderness—he warms her cold hands, comforts her after nightmares under crabapple trees, and gives her a silver hairpin engraved with “Wan” for her birthday. But when the assassination deadline comes, as she raises her sword to his heart, Lu Zhao smiles and presses her hand to himself: “I’ve known you’re an assassin, but I bet you can’t bear it.” When the sword stabs his chest, blood stains the hairpin—the token he said was for their lifelong promise. She thinks she won, until she finds his letter: “If Wan acts, tell her I’m willing; if she hesitates, take her to Jiangnan for crabapples.” From day one, he gambled his life on the chance that “she would fall in love with him.”

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