Running for My Life with the Killer

🌸 A willful young county lady who forgot her childhood friend long ago x A prickly, beautiful young man who is bent on settling the score with her, yet spends the whole journey washing her underwear with a stony face 🌈 Childhood friends brought together by fate | Chinese-style supernatural folklore, with a scientific-investigation twist | Mystery and adventure Li Yingzi, the most pampered young county lady of Prince Qi's manor, had spent sixteen years swaggering through life. Then she was suddenly haunted by nightmares. In her dream, she was murdered on the day of her betrothal ceremony, and her body was hidden in a cellar. With her death fast approaching, Li Yingzi made a snap decision. She hired a martial arts expert and hurriedly had him escort her to Luoyang to find her older brother. But on the day of their departure, the person waiting for her wasn't a mighty hero. It was an outrageously pretty young man. The County Lady Li felt her eyes go dark. “...This is my bodyguard?” The pretty boy proved completely useless along the way, and all he ever did was spout classical phrases. His one redeeming quality was his obedience. He came whenever she called and left whenever she sent him away, nodding yes to every order. Li Yingzi disapproved of him, but grudgingly accepted him. Fine. They could use another servant for the journey. Until that night, when bandits attacked. She hid in the shadows and watched helplessly as... The pretty boy tore out the bandit's heart with his bare hands in a single move. And those bloodied hands... They looked exactly like the hands of the murderer in her dream. Li Yingzi: ...!! N-no way? So he came here to kill me? * Yan Yuguang had hated Li Yingzi for a full ten years. If she hadn't been so willful back then, he wouldn't have been driven out of Luoyang and spent a decade wandering alone. Now that he was returning to the capital, he had already prepared a hundred cruel ways to make her kneel and beg for mercy. He hadn't expected that when they met, she'd look up at him and ask his name. That wicked girl had forgotten everything about what happened back then... Including him. Fine. Very fine. In that case, he'd do to her what she'd done to him. He'd get close to her, indulge her, and raise her high, then make her suffer. He'd planned every step. But he hadn't counted on her running away halfway through, while he was still in the middle of raising her up. Remembering how he'd waited on her hand and foot and worked like her servant, Yan Yuguang ground his teeth in fury. So you ran, did you? When he caught her, he'd skin her, tear her apart, and bury her in a pit. He wouldn't go easy on her! * Three days later, in a secret chamber The blood-soaked young man glanced coldly behind him. “...All right, stop crying. I'm here now, aren't I?” “You took way too long.” The girl wiped her tears on the only clean half-inch of his sleeve and complained through her sobs, “Why didn't you wait until I was dead before coming?” “You're the one who ran off...” The words slipped out. But his gaze inadvertently fell on her swollen eyelids, then met her tearful, reproachful eyes. The young man's Adam's apple bobbed. He abruptly turned away. After a long pause, his muffled voice rang out in the secret chamber: “I won't let you die.” 🌝Reader's guide: ✨ One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads are sexually inexperienced, devoted to each other, sweet with no angst ✨ This is a sweet romance! The male lead is not the murderer! The male lead will not be the murderer! ✨ Not a strong female lead or an independent heroine. Just a sweet road-trip adventure about a young man and woman who grew up together, bickering along the way ✨ An important supporting character has transmigrated, so this is categorized as a historical transmigration story ✨ Set in a fictional world inspired by the early Tang Dynasty, with no real-life counterparts and plenty of original details Synopsis screenshot saved. Theme: Stay positive and keep moving forward