After I Was Married Off to Bring Good Fortune to a Tyrannical Minister

[Synopsis]

Shengjing has three unrivaled wonders: Gu Sanlang, the peerless assassin; Liuyun Shop, famous for its incomparable fragrance; and Shen Mingshu, a beauty beyond compare.

As the youngest legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, Shen Mingshu has been adored by everyone since childhood, and her beauty could outshine the whole city.

But her father became embroiled in a bribery case, and the family fell into ruin overnight. Her father was gravely ill, her three elder brothers had gone missing, and only she and her still-young brother remained to hold the storm-tossed Shen family together.

On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, an imperial decree ordered her to marry Gu Sanlang, a man feared by everyone in the capital, as a bride to bring him good fortune.

It all started because Gu Sanlang had said at a palace banquet, "I hear that Shen Mingshu of the Shen family is peerlessly beautiful, but I have yet to have the good fortune of seeing her."

Everyone in Shengjing knew that Gu Heng, the third son of the Gu family, had been frail since childhood but was also violent by nature. After taking command of the Eagle Guards, he had killed countless court officials and had blood on his hands, eventually rising to a position just below The Outcast.

Most importantly, he had already had six brides sent to him to bring him good fortune, but each had either died on the way to the wedding or on the wedding night. Worse still, Gu Heng's illness grew more severe with every such marriage.

Everyone said that once Shen Mingshu married into the Gu family to bring Gu Heng good fortune, the two of them would probably be headed straight to the afterlife together.

On her wedding day, Shen Mingshu hid a knife in her sleeve. She planned to kill the villain who had ruined her family, then take her own life.

But as she looked at Gu Heng lying on the bed, his face deathly pale, she held the knife over his heart and trembled for nearly fifteen minutes, unable to bring herself to strike. Instead, tears of misery fell from her eyes.

Gu Heng had been lying there waiting for her to make a move. He raised his eyes lazily and said, "You haven't killed me, so why are you already crying at my funeral?"

With that, he smiled and tightened his grip on her hand, guiding the knife toward his heart. "Never killed anyone before? I'll teach you."

Shen Mingshu turned pale with fright.

The whole capital waited for news of a funeral from the Gu family. But as they waited, what arrived instead was news that Gu Heng had volunteered to lead a campaign at the border.

Everyone: "???"

You're a sickly weakling. What are you going there for?

Gu Heng: "..."

To find my weepy little wife some brothers.

#From powerful minister to general#

#I'll give up my wicked ways for my wife and become a good man#

Theme: A beautiful love can heal every pain.