The Duke's Crimson Bride

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n guild known only as the Glass Lotus, she was trained from the age of eight to kill without mercy, to eras

s don't get

bushed by her own team. A betrayal so sudden, so clean, she didn't even feel the first blade. As he

... I'd live for myself. No

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The Waning Years of

of a rain-drenched courtyard, her skin lashed, body starved. The scent of rot, in

nd attempting to assassinate the feared Duke of Hei'an, a war hero who rose from pe

aises his sword, a voice

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og, commander of the northern legions, and a man known for dragging entire villages into f

aight despite the bruises, her gaze razor-sharp even in

killer's

ns no one dares to

again, and I will paint

becomes the legal wife of the m

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Born of Blo

ourt officials, a scandal. To Yu

ers and whispers. Servants are too afraid to meet her eyes. They say Duke Li once burned an entire ci

nd slowly, she pieces together the power web around her: corrupted eunuchs, a dying empe

but recognition. At night, he sits beside her sleeping form, fingers brushing t

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m that this man once walked t