So He Came Here to Kill Me?

🌸 A spoiled young county princess who long ago forgot her childhood friend x a prickly, handsome young man who’s out to settle a score with her, but keeps a cold face while washing her underwear the whole way

🌈 Childhood friend returns out of nowhere | Chinese supernatural folklore, with a scientific twist | Mystery and adventure

Li Yingzi, the most doted-on young county princess in the Prince of Qi’s household, had spent sixteen years throwing her weight around when she was suddenly plagued by nightmares.

In her dreams, she was murdered on the day of her betrothal ceremony, and her body was hidden in a cellar.

With her death drawing near, Li Yingzi acted decisively. She swiftly hired a martial arts expert to escort her to Luoyang, where she could seek out her elder brother.

But on the day they set off, the person waiting for her was no mighty hero. He was an excessively pretty pretty boy.

County Princess Li’s vision went dark. ...This is my bodyguard?

The pretty boy was completely useless on the road, spouting nothing but classical sayings at every turn.

His one redeeming quality was that he was obedient. She could summon him or dismiss him as she pleased, and whatever she ordered him to do, he would nod and say yes.

Li Yingzi might have found him annoying, but she grudgingly accepted him.

Fine. The road was in need of a servant anyway.

Then one night, bandits attacked.

She hid in the shadows and watched helplessly as...

The pretty boy tore out his opponent’s heart with his bare hands in a single move.

And those bloodied hands...

They were exactly like those of the real killer in her dreams.

Li Yingzi: ...!!

N-no way?

So he’s 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 left to wander for a decade.

Now that he was returning to the capital, he had already prepared a hundred ruthless ways to make her kneel and beg for mercy.

He never expected that when they met, she would simply look up at him and ask his name.

That wicked girl had forgotten everything about what happened back then... including him.

Fine. Just fine.

In that case, he would treat her the way she had treated him back then.

He would get close to her, obey her, and raise her up high, only to make her suffer afterward.

He had planned out every step.

But he hadn’t counted on her running off halfway through, while he was still in the middle of raising her up.

Remembering how he had waited on her hand and foot and worked like an ox and a horse for her, Yan Yuguang ground his teeth in anger.

So you ran, did you?

When he caught her, he would strip her skin and tear her limb from limb, then dig a pit and bury her. He wouldn’t show her the slightest mercy!

*

Not long afterward, 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 came way too late.”

The girl rubbed her tears dry on the only clean half-inch of his sleeve, then complained between 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 and met her tearful, resentful eyes.

The young man’s Adam’s apple bobbed. He abruptly turned his face away.

After a long while, his muffled voice finally rang out in the secret chamber:

“I won’t let you die.”

🌝 Reader’s Guide:

✨ 1v1, happy ending, both leads’ first relationship, both devoted to each other, no groveling arc, sweet romance with no angst

✨ It’s a sweet romance! The male lead isn’t the killer! The male lead will not be the killer!

✨ Not a strong female lead or a female-centric story. A sweet little road-trip adventure about a young man and woman who grew up together, with some bickering along the way

✨ An important supporting character has transmigrated, so it’s categorized under ancient setting with transmigration

✨ Fictional setting inspired by the early Tang dynasty, no real-life models, with original worldbuilding

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Theme: Love can cross time and space to bring me to your side.