The Condemned Takes Power, the Slave Craftsman Commands the Forge

When Shen Yan jumped from the city wall clutching half a piece of bronze, he thought he was surely dead. He woke in an enemy nation's death row, charged as a spy, to be executed in three days. Elsewhere, Su Ling woke holding the other half of the bronze, in a craftsman-slave camp at the grassland royal court. One treats the law as a blade inside a death cell; the other treats iron as life before the furnace fire. Three years later, at a border trading post, with a wall of people between the two of them, she spoke half a sentence—and the teacup in his hand fell. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Condemned Takes Power, the Slave Craftsman Commands the Forge — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠