A Manual for Raising Shadow Guards

[Happy ending + devoted puppy + the bottom isn't completely pure + a touch of ensemble cast]

Yan Zisu was taken in by his master as a child and brought up in the mountains to study medicine. While others learned medicine to heal the world, he did it simply because he found it fun. As it happened, he had a natural gift: no matter how difficult the illness, three needles and a couple of doses of medicine were enough to bring a patient back to health.

He left the mountains at fifteen and was famous throughout the land by seventeen, able to revive the dead and restore flesh to bone.

Yet he was elusive and free-spirited by nature, spending his days among mountain villages, so no one could ever pin down his whereabouts.

Until one day, an outsider broke into his home, knocked him out, tied him up, and shoved him into a vehicle. Yan Zisu nearly thought he had become a hostage.

But the kidnappers turned around and fell to their knees, begging him to save someone.

“...?”

The shadow guard was drenched in blood, yet his cold eyes shone with startling intensity. He knocked his forehead against the stone floor again and again. “Please, Doctor, save my master. Once this is done, you may do as you wish with my life.”

P.S.

1. This story has no logic; it's purely written to indulge the author's preferences.

2. The devoted puppy isn't always a shadow guard. Later on, there are plots about rescuing someone from a life of degradation. The bottom isn't pure, so don't read if that bothers you.

3. The protagonist has a hidden identity. The early story takes place in the martial world, and the later story in court, but the political scheming is pretty silly. Everything is in service of the romance.

4. The author loves writing various side couples and bonus chapters, so don't read if that bothers you.

5. This is the current plan. The P.S. section may be updated as the story goes on.