Chapter 1: Prologue: She is an Assassin, Codename 47!

A person's life only happens once?!

Perhaps, most people would believe so.

Many years ago, when Agent 47—a killer belonging to a top-tier global assassin organization, possessing no name and no identity, only a numerical code—lived a life of licking blood from the edge of a blade and seeking survival amidst a hail of bullets, she believed the same.

Later, after Code 47 truly experienced death, she realized that a person's life does not, in fact, only happen once.

Take her, for example; after falling into darkness and waking up, she found she had already begun a new life.

Now, she was no longer Code 47; she had a name—Dugu Yue, a name that was noble yet carried a hint of chill.

Now, she was no longer an assassin, but the ruler of a nation whose slightest step could make the entire continent tremble.

Subjugated by none, above tens of thousands, surrounded by throngs of servants, living in silk and jade.

In the history of this continent, the name Dugu Yue was destined to be a stroke of heavy, vivid ink.

Naturally, it had not been this way from the beginning. To reach where she was today, she had experienced many, many things.

Standing outside the Silver Moon Palace, where clear moonlight spread everywhere, waiting for the man returning in the night, she merely tilted her head to look at the vast starry sky. The past events from before her transmigration were no longer clearly remembered; what remained vivid in her mind was the rise and fall of this life—filled with clashing steel and iron horses, with blood and iron tempered by tenderness, and with faces that left deep impressions.

Her gaze pierced through scenes of old matters, seeing the very first of the first, which was a mass of billowing flames—tongues of fire as red as blood and blades of flame as green as jade.

That was the first day she arrived in this world.

Everything ended on that night, and everything began on that night.

On that day, in that world, an assassin codenamed 47 died.

On that day, in this world, a nine-year-old girl was brought back to life.

The great wheel of fate changed its course of progression because of a single accident.

That year was the 549th year of the Chu Calendar.

Emperor Chu passed away from illness, and Crown Prince Chu Yang ascended the throne. Upon taking power, he immediately began the great undertaking of unifying the seven nations, personally leading his troops on campaign. With a hundred thousand iron hooves that were invincible, he subdued the two small nations of Zheng and Qi in just half a year, and then, with unstoppable momentum, drove straight to the heart of the enemy, bringing his armies to the foot of Wentian City, the imperial capital of the Li Nation.

The Crown Prince of the Li Nation, Dugu Chonghua, personally brought a letter of surrender outside the palace, only to be pinned to the city wall by one of Chu Yang's arrows, as a hundred thousand iron hooves charged straight through the palace gates.