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When the emperor thrusts the seven imperial heirs into a struggle for the throne, Shadow Guard Three becomes the Third Princess’s only knife. But having spent her whole life killing for the throne, the deadly imperial competition drives away any chance Three might have for a happy ending. With her powerless but vengeful princess’s mother dead at her hands and her sworn siblings now the guards of enemy heirs, she struggles to keep her emotions separated from her work — a task that grows harder by the day as she finds herself drawn to the cold yet beautiful Third Princess. But this forbidden love goes against everything she has ever learned, pulling her from a guard’s destiny to a new path of thorns. Three must choose between the purpose of her existence and a love doomed to end in tragedy — but can she truly grasp hope and happiness with death so eager for her life?