Sabotaging Fate with Blind Dates
By @john1208
Shireen Nazari is perfectly content hiding her brilliant alchemical mind behind a bubbly, airheaded smile. But while attending the solemn funeral of the city's Grand Weaver, a whiff of ceremonial incense unlocks a terrifying past-life memory: during their final exams, her brooding academic rival, Kian Rostami, stabbed her through the heart!
Determined to avoid this bloody destiny, Shireen decides the best defense is a romantic distraction. She makes it her mission to play matchmaker, setting the grumpy genius up with every eligible noblewoman in the city. Surely, if he is busy falling in love, he won't have time to assassinate her, right?
Wrong. Instead of swooning for the beautiful bachelorettes, Kian grows increasingly furious and fiercely jealous that Shireen is so eager to give him away. Her clumsy setups only drag her closer into his orbit. When a disastrous exam leaves them trapped in the subterranean Crystal Labyrinths, Shireen witnesses Kian’s hidden, tender side as he risks everything to protect her. If he's actually a gentle soul, why did he kill her before? And what if the fatal 'kill-or-be-killed' rule of their final trial was something she completely misunderstood all along?
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