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Sober and Restrained Princess X Unrestrained Assassin
She crushed the bright moon and paved a road with its fragments, yet someone stubbornly insisted on gathering every bloodstained shard of moonlight.
Liu Chunxi, Princess of Southern Yan, was born into nobility but endured countless hardships. The thirty lashes that scarred her back shattered all her naive fantasies.
The world praised Princess Lanyue of Great Yan as steadfast as a mountain pine and as radiant as the moon, lofty and flawless. But only Liu Chunxi knew the truth: she was far from the perfect image people believed her to be.
She restrained herself, bound herself, and imprisoned herself in a cage, meticulously playing the role everyone expected of her.
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Bai Yisi had always lived by her own whims, doing whatever she pleased. Though her life was destined to be short, she never feared death, acting without regard for consequences. Beneath this recklessness lay an endless darkness.
She entered a place called the Embroidered Spring Pavilion, a haven for assassins where pleasure reigned supreme. One day, the pavilion master assigned her a mission: assassinate Princess Liu Chunxi, the reigning princess of the court. The Princess’s Residence was heavily guarded, making the mission likely to be a one-way trip. But who cared about such trivialities?
Bai Yisi was obsessed with challenges, but the moment she saw the princess, she no longer wanted to kill her. It was because she saw the madness hidden deep within the princess’s eyes.
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Liu Chunxi and Bai Yisi both sought to tear away each other’s masks, to see their true selves. Yet amidst their pretense and probing, they never anticipated falling deeply in love.
In this world, only you and I understand each other’s madness.
I helped you break free from your cage, and in turn, I became utterly captivated by you, willingly ensnaring myself in the prison you wove with your own hands.
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One morning, Bai Yisi woke to find Liu Chunxi sleeping peacefully beside her, her face was calm and utterly innocent. Bai Yisi leaned over to examine the body beneath the covers, now covered in red marks.
Having never failed before, Bai Yisi belatedly wondered: Does this mission count as a failure?
Theme: Never lose the courage to escape
