The Weak Couple and Their Eight Hundred Schemes

#A seemingly weak couple who are both secretly strong#

#My wife doesn't know what I do when I'm away from home#

Ruan Liuzhi is an empty-hearted person, numb to the seven emotions. To conceal her identity, she urgently needs to get married.

One day, she rescued a man with amnesia named Ling Yao. After thinking it over, Ruan Liuzhi decided to pretend to be weak and marry him, so he could serve as her cover. Perhaps she played the victim too convincingly, because Ling Yao agreed.

After they married, both of them acted as though they were too frail to fend for themselves, and their life together was rather bleak. Still, Ling Yao indulged her in everything and often went out to tell stories to help support the household.

One day, while she was home alone, she saw a man in black lurking nearby. Ruan Liuzhi recognized him: he had once tried to assassinate her.

Ruan Liuzhi's expression darkened. They couldn't stay here.

But leaving outright would arouse suspicion, so she decided to make up an excuse and move somewhere else with Ling Yao.

That night, as she was working out what to say, Ling Yao spoke first. "Wife, come live with me at my old home. It's hot and humid here, and it makes me feel ill." He finished with a few coughs.

*

After retiring, Ling Yao, the top assassin of the Immortal Affairs Bureau, was targeted by an old friend. He faked his death to escape, then married Ruan Liuzhi.

But his old friend still tracked him down.

In the woods, Ling Yao was on edge, repeatedly glancing back toward home. "Don't lurk around my house. My wife doesn't know what I do when I'm away."

His old friend replied in exasperation, "I'll help you once, and you help me once."

So Ling Yao agreed to help his old friend with this Heaven-ranked assassination order.

The target was an empty-hearted person, said to be numb to the seven emotions and able to use a ruan to ensnare people's souls. Before leaving, his old friend warned him, "They're searching this area. To be safe, you should move."

After they moved into their new home, his wife happily took the old ruan off the wall and played him a gentle tune.

*

In the pouring rain, Ling Yao faced off against his former friend.

"Your bedmate is the assassination target, and you're still protecting her!"

They clashed at close quarters. Ling Yao answered with unshakable resolve: "She isn't."

His old friend sneered. "What proof do you have?"

Ling Yao gazed at him. "Empty-hearted people are cut off from the seven emotions. She isn't. She loves me."

Dragging his exhausted body home, Ling Yao found the room completely empty.

His wife had run away, taking the old ruan from the wall with her.

Theme: Get a good night's sleep.