After the Obsessive Brocade Guard Set His Sights on Me

Ruthless killer × soft, gentle little bunny

Xiao Baosui is the youngest legitimate daughter of the Grand Secretary. When her family suddenly falls from power, she, once the apple of their eye, is sent to the palace and becomes a low-ranking palace maid who makes incense.

She is doing her best to survive in the palace, treading carefully, when one day she happens to see a Brocade Guard kill someone in broad daylight.

Xiao Baosui is on the verge of tears: I’m doomed. He’s going to kill me to keep me quiet...

Just as she steels herself to go to the underworld and reunite with her family, the Brocade Guard spares her life and starts following her around every day.

After meeting him, Xiao Baosui slowly begins to notice some strange things:

The fierce palace matron who bullied her is bitten through the throat by a vicious dog.

The young heir of the Marquis’s household who harassed her is stripped of his title, and his family is ruined.

The eunuch who abused her is torn apart by five horses.

The young ladies who mocked her all end up as government-owned servant girls, just like her...

Later, once they have gotten to know each other, Xiao Baosui casually complains that the sinister, overbearing Commander of the Brocade Guard, Third Master Chu, is a real piece of work. The Brocade Guard’s face darkens on the spot.

Later still, Xiao Baosui is thrown into the Northern Garrison Command to be tortured. She looks up and sees the young Brocade Guard she knows, clad in a scarlet flying-fish robe, striding toward her on a gust of icy wind. “Who dares lay a hand on one of my people?”

Third Master Chu? The Commander of the Brocade Guard, Third Master Chu?!

The Brocade Guard smiles and taps her on the nose. “So, do you think I’m a real piece of work?” (*￣︶￣)

Xiao Baosui trembles even harder. “I didn’t! I haven’t! I never said anything!” (∑(O_O;))

Reader’s guide:

1. The male lead is crazy. The kind of crazy who, upon realizing he has fallen for the heroine, first thinks about killing her. If that’s not for you, click away. Mwah~

2. A sweet, romantic, melodramatic story. If you like that sort of thing, come on in!

3. Set in a fictional Ming dynasty, with elements from various dynasties mixed together and lots of original worldbuilding. If it’s not for you, just click away~

Upcoming Novel

Bound by Love

Bright little princess × mad imperial brother

#He meant to kill her, but accidentally fell in love with her#

He was born in the sunless, freezing palace, a prince treated as something more worthless than a bug.

One winter day, he secretly slipped out to gather firewood and saw a little girl who had grown up in the sunlight, showered with love: his half-sister, the most honored little princess in all the Great Yin dynasty. Her smile was brighter than the sun, and it stung his eyes. Darkness quietly took root in his heart: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if she died...

At last, the little girl like the morning sun ran after a cat and out of sight. He tricked her into going to the pond and reached out to push her in. Instead, she grabbed the hand he had just used to pick lice. Her eyes reddened as she was about to cry. “Brother, I can’t find my kitty.”

From then on, she was the only person in his life of filth and mud who smiled at him and treated him kindly, following behind him without caring how dirty he was and calling him brother.

*

To have her,

he killed all her closest attendants;

he exiled her fiance;

he had every man who had ever spoken to her executed;

he claimed her as his own again and again;

he used every cruel method imaginable against her, stopping at nothing.

The emperor’s once-beloved daughter became a feared bringer of misfortune. With no one to turn to, he was the only person she had left to depend on.

In the dead of night, he held the little girl in his arms and murmured with a low laugh, “A Huan, from now on, you have only me. How wonderful...”

His heart was full of joy, but his A Huan never smiled with the brightness she once had.

To win a smile from her, he had magnificent palaces built and searched for rare treasures. But the girl sat listlessly in the lavish palace, and all its treasures could not win even a glance from her.

Then one day, just before she fell from a cliff like a fluttering butterfly, her radiant smile of release shone just as brightly as it had in the past. The only glimmer of light he had seen in his long life of darkness was gone.

*

Three years later, he headed south on an imperial inspection tour after seeing a portrait.

Amid the misty waterways of Jiangnan, he saw the person forever branded on his heart once more.

By a clear spring, the young woman smiled as brightly as ever. “Do I know you?”

His Adam’s apple bobbed. His clear eyes were webbed with blood-red veins. “I’m your husband...”

Reader’s guide:

1. They are not biologically related. The male lead knew from the start that the heroine wasn’t his real sister. Maximum melodrama.

2. The male lead is a total dog: crazy, pathetic, and an absolute bastard who knows nothing about love!

3. A throwback to an older style, with sweet moments wrapped in angst. There’s both heartbreak and sweetness. Don’t read if you dislike that~

4. No personal attacks. If you have to insult someone, insult the male lead. Girls help girls (doge).

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A Debauched Couple by Shen Chou: A day in the life of two spoiled young nobles, with excellent writing.

I Fished Up a Girl from the Underworld by Zhi Shao: Lazy underworld ruler × aloof domineering CEO.

I Became the Sickly Heir’s White Moonlight by Shu Qin Cheng: World-weary, detached young lord with a chronic illness × gentle, pampered heiress.

Theme: Even after hitting rock bottom, keep striving to rise.