[Quirky heroine Wen × Worried-about-everything guard Shen | 1v1 | Both leads’ first love | Happy ending]
Wen Shuning, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yongning, is married off by her family to a man she’s never met. She has no interest in this “perfect match” and immediately runs away in the middle of the night, climbing over the wall to escape.
On the road, bandits ambush her in the woods. Just as she’s about to stretch her muscles, a young man in black suddenly darts out and stands in front of her, sword raised. “Miss, stay back. I’ll handle this.”
Wen Shuning: “...” (Actually, I can handle it myself.)
She obediently hides behind a tree, peeking out with half her face and looking terrified, while thinking: He’s pretty handsome.
The young man is Shen Yunheng. When he smiles, a little canine tooth shows, and he’s full of youthful confidence.
Seeing her alone and timid, he offers to travel south with her and protect her along the way. Wen Shuning gets into character at once, making her voice soft and timid. “Then... I’ll have to trouble you, sir.”
Inner monologue: A ready-made bodyguard. Might as well make use of him. From then on, she plays along the whole way, “scared” into hiding behind him and nearly bursting from holding back her laughter.
Until one day, they’re surrounded by a large group of thugs. Shen Yunheng is gradually outmatched and trapped in a perilous situation. Then Wen Shuning, usually as delicate as a willow in the breeze, casually raises a hand and takes down the entire gang in an instant.
Shen Yunheng stares in shock. “You... you...” She dusts off her hands and tilts her head with a smile. “Didn’t see that coming, did you?”
They’ve already fallen for each other, but they share the same secret: they’re both running away from arranged marriages.
That is, until their families catch them and drag them back, only for them to discover:
The man he was fleeing from marrying was her.
The woman she was trying to avoid marrying was him.
Wen Shuning: “...”
Shen Yunheng: “...”
So all that running was for nothing.
