Episode 1: Mei Lin is ordered to assassinate General Man Tu

The Great Yan and the Western Yan countries have been at war for many years. The third prince Murong Jinghe led the Weibei Army to fight and successfully recovered the lost land of Qingzhou. However, after the army entered the city, Qingzhou was deliberately set on fire. Mei Dashan died in the fire to protect his daughter Meilin.

Meilin accidentally took the Weibei Army token from the arsonist. Since then, rumors have spread that Murong Jinghe hated the people of Qingzhou for betraying the Great Yan, so he ordered the massacre of the city. He was even exiled to Jingbei for massacring 100,000 people in Qingzhou and was called “the butcher general”.

Ten years passed in a flash. Mei Lin resolutely joined the dark factory to avenge her father and became a death warrior. She was surrounded by killing every day, just to push Murong Jinghe into the abyss with her own hands one day.

The training in the dark factory was harsh and cruel, which gradually taught Mei Lin to be patient and ruthless, forcing her to annihilate her human nature and fear of death, and rely on antidotes to maintain her life and loyalty.

Even though Mei Lin struggled to survive in the darkness, she still did not forget to retain a trace of conscience, and tried her best to prevent more girls from falling into the dark factory and repeating her mistakes.

In the 25th year of Zhaoming, the two countries, which had been at loggerheads for a hundred years, negotiated for peace. To show his sincerity, the King of Xiyan sent Princess Zigu and a hundred beauties to Dayan to marry in exchange for more than 10,000 captives.

At that time, the marriage delegation would enter the border of Yan from Jingbei, and the third prince Murong Jinghe, who was stationed in Jingbei, volunteered to be the welcoming envoy. At the same time, Mei Lin was ordered to take the Momai poison and finally ushered in his first mission.

The owner of the dark factory ordered Mei Lin to sneak into the Xiyan marriage group and take advantage of the opportunity of the marriage banquet to assassinate Murong Jinghe. Only by completing the mission can he exchange for the antidote and leave the dark factory.

Since Murong Jinghe had killed too many people in the past when he conquered Xiyan, and the marriage was originally a move to make peace between the two countries, if General Weibei was appointed as the wedding envoy, it might cause discord again, so some officials in the court submitted a memorial to oppose it.

Emperor Murong Qian specially summoned Crown Prince Murong Xuanlie to ask for his opinion. Xuanlie believed that Xiyan intended to use the marriage as an opportunity to lie dormant in secret, and Murong Jinghe was the best candidate to intimidate Xiyan. Murong Qian agreed greatly after hearing this.

Later, under the arrangement of the secret factory, Meilin became one of the 100 beauties sent by Xiyan to Yan Kingdom for marriage, and set off with the team. She rode in the same car with Ajia, Ayi, and Adai, all of whom were personal maids of Princess Zigu.

During the journey, the other three talked about Murong Jinghe’s cruelty and viciousness, describing him as unforgivable like a devil, but Meilin remained silent, her heart full of memories of past suffering.

The Xiyan convoy traveled a hundred miles a day and arrived at the gate of Jingbei City smoothly. Paper money was flying all over the sky, creating a cold and terrifying atmosphere. After a while, the gate finally opened slowly, and the city guards were on both sides, guarding the city tightly.

Murong Jinghe rode in a sedan chair and slowly appeared in everyone’s sight. Under the pretext of holding a funeral for the turtle, he greeted the marriage team with an arrogant and rude attitude, with the intention of humiliating them. He picked a beauty before the gift arrived, and took a fancy to Mei Lin who had not said a word from beginning to end.

After entering the city, everyone rested in Jingbei for one night. Princess Zi Gu couldn’t sleep at night, so she went to Mei Lin and others to talk. Mei Lin joked that knocking someone unconscious could cure insomnia, but Princess Zi Gu was afraid of something going wrong, so she declined and chose to sleep on the same bed with them.

Princess Zi Gu was arranged to marry a foreign prince because she was not favored, and she felt lost, and everyone comforted her.

In the middle of the night, Meilin sneaked into the Jingwang Mansion in disguise and found that Murong Jinghe’s bedroom was full of traps, and his real resting place was the secret room behind the trap wall. In addition, Meilin encountered other assassins who wanted to attack Murong Jinghe.

The assassins were defeated and fled in a hurry. She entered Murong Jinghe’s medicine pool as a medicine maid, and offered herself to become his woman, which was actually a plan to assassinate him.

Unexpectedly, the next second, Murong Jinghe suddenly pulled Meilin into the pool. Meilin was shocked to find that the water contained a muscle softener. Murong Jinghe was wary of her and severely questioned her real purpose.

While Meilin was dealing with Murong Jinghe, the housekeeper Liu Zhong and Qingyan noticed something was wrong and rushed over with the guards. In a hurry, Meilin took the risk of kissing Murong Jinghe, and the two kissed passionately.

Because of this, Meilin saved her life with her wit, and Murong Jinghe gave up the intention to kill her, and ordered her to stay in the palace tonight, and took her back to Zhaojing the next day.

Then Murong Jinghe slowly stood up from the pool and walked out of the room. The cynicism on his face gradually faded, thinking that Meilin, this little beggar, really did not disappoint him.