The Loyal Guard and the Spoiled Beauty

[The quick transmigration novel The Blackened Second Male Lead's White Moonlight is now updating. Please add it to your reading list! Also seeking readers for My Lady, Don't Tease and Before the Divorce, the Heir Lost His Memory. Their blurbs are at the bottom. QAQ]

Friend's upcoming novel: With the Imperial Brother, by Chan Rong

As the eldest daughter of the wealthiest merchant family, Xie Shiwan lived a life of limitless wealth, pampered and carefree.

Just as all the capital's eligible bachelors were hers to choose from, she received news of her brother's death, and the Xie family fell into ruin.

Gu Yan had been taken in by the Xie family as a child and became one of their guards. He had no hope of ever entering officialdom.

When her family fell from power, the emperor pressured her into a marriage. With no other choice, she claimed that she had long been in love with the guard by her side, and begged the emperor to grant her wish.

On the night they received the imperial decree of betrothal, he stood dressed in black beneath the moon, calm and distant. "Gu Yan knows he is not worthy of Miss. Once this turmoil is over, the marriage should be called off."

After she left in disappointment, his clenched fists were already marked with bloody crescents from his nails.

Later, a great figure rose to prominence in the capital.

He had a handsome, jade-like face, yet was decisive and ruthless.

More importantly, he kept women at a distance and rarely smiled.

His resolve was beyond that of ordinary men, yet a peerlessly beautiful woman quietly appeared by his side.

Just as people began to wonder how this woman could be so bold, the eyes of the court's rising star shone like the stars.

At last, he stopped holding back, wrapped an arm around the beauty's waist, and introduced her to his colleagues: "This is Gu's wife."

At last, he had earned the right to become her husband openly and honorably.

[Little Scene]

After their wedding, the guard Gu Yan told her, "Newlyweds sleep with their clothes on."

She looked at him suspiciously. "Really?"

Gu Yan gazed at her alluring figure. After much restraint, he added without blushing or missing a beat, "They should also sleep separately, one in the bed and the other on the couch."

She looked doubtful. "Oh? I see."

Later, the naive little white rabbit who knew nothing of the world finally became a little fox.

Her eyes brimmed with coquettish charm, her pitiful look making him avert his gaze.

"Brother Gu Yan, why won't you look at me?"

He turned his face away and pulled her clothes back into place, scolding softly, "A Wan, don't tease me."

But his eyes were full of a love he could not conceal.

She was the unattainable dream he cherished, the desire he never dared to pursue.

When moonlight filled his arms and she tempted him in every way, he fell deeper with each step, utterly defeated.

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first.

2. The male lead won't remain a mere guard.

3. A story of healing. The male lead is rather insecure early on.

4. This story has been revised. Jinjiang is the only official platform, and other copies are incomplete, especially the important romantic chapters. Writing is hard work, so please support the official version.

---------Upcoming Novel Blurb--------

After Becoming the Unlucky White Moonlight, I Got a Happy Ending with the Villain

Xu Zhaozhao has been reborn again.

To fix the story's derailed plot, she must survive by getting rid of her bad luck. As the original male lead's ill-fated white moonlight, that's her mission.

Luckily, she also has a System.

All she has to do is fill the health bar of Qin Jinyan, the Qin family's illegitimate son, and she'll complete every task.

The young man in the corner has a pale face and eyes frosted over, looking thoroughly unapproachable.

But thankfully, his health bar tells Xu Zhaozhao that he's still just a pitiful boy she can bully as she pleases.

To complete her mission, Xu Zhaozhao embraces a carefree, lazy approach.

He refuses to drink the water she brings him? No problem. She grabs his cheeks and forces him to drink.

She needs to give him some clothes? Easy. She passes off a little girl's dress she hastily sewed as a child.

At last, Xu Zhaozhao clears her bad luck and prepares to walk away without a backward glance.

Only then does she realize that the pitiful boy she used to bully has become the cold-blooded, ruthless Grand Secretary.

He holds her captive in his arms and lures her in a low voice: "Zhaozhao, would you like to be empress?"

Xu Zhaozhao freezes. She's doomed. So he's the great villain from the original story, the one who bathed the palace in blood overnight.

Damn it, she needs to run!

He was born in the mire, trampled beneath people's feet. Though he gave everything he had, luck was never on his side.

But one girl grabbed him by the collar beneath the moonlight and told him, "Get up and fight back."

From then on, she became his crescent moon.

Only now, it seemed his moon was about to be frightened away.

No matter. He would just have to find her again.

Reading Guide:

1. The female lead falls in love later on.

2. The later pursuit of the female lead is not a traditional "chase your wife to the crematorium" plot.

Before the Divorce, the Heir Lost His Memory

Shen Yingjia, the Shen family's legitimate daughter, was both beautiful and intelligent. Once, even a fortune couldn't buy a glimpse of her. But when the Shen family fell into decline, she was offered in marriage to Gu Ziyu, heir to the Duke's household, a man she had met only twice.

Gu Ziyu was as refined as moonlight and kept women at a distance. He was nearly thirty and still had neither wife nor concubine. Rumor had it that he had remained chaste for the Minghe Princess, whom he had loved since his youth, but their different stations in life had kept them from ever being together.

Shen Yingjia knew all about it. So on their wedding day, she and Gu Ziyu signed an agreement. As expected, after the wedding they were emotionally distant, like strangers.

When their agreement expired, Shen Yingjia drafted divorce papers and packed her belongings. She waited at home for Gu Ziyu to return and sign them, but instead received news that he had lost his memory...

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After losing his memory, Gu Ziyu's recollections went back to before he was married. He woke to find an unfamiliar young woman sleeping lightly beside him.

At first, he was uncomfortable with it. But as time went by, on every cold night he found himself getting up to tuck the blankets around her.

Until one day, he discovered the divorce papers tucked under the bed...

Later, the princess held a banquet. Princess Minghe gazed affectionately at Gu Ziyu and repeatedly offered him wine. Meanwhile, Shen Yingjia sat beside him with moist, almond-shaped eyes and her head bowed in silence. Everyone waited to see her humiliated.

But to their surprise, the ever-courteous Gu Ziyu's face darkened as he refused the wine. He stood and led her away, taking her into the rock garden in the back courtyard.

When the two reappeared,

Shen Yingjia's lipstick had faded, and Gu Ziyu's blue robe was rumpled.

Supporting her by the waist, Gu Ziyu had shed his usual cool composure. He whispered in her ear, "Wife, do you still want a divorce?"

Thinking of her still-aching waist, the beauty in his arms blushed scarlet and glared at him. She gave his palm a light pinch and whispered, "You're sleeping in the study tonight."

The heir fell silent at once.

Reading Guide:

1. Marriage first, love later. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first.

2. A love triangle involving the male lead and the second male lead.

My Lady, Don't Tease

Everyone in the capital knew that Song Yanling was carefree, and that she was most unhappy about the marriage her family had arranged for her. Her fiance, Fu Yu, was rumored to be a sickly man who couldn't fight and would cough up blood from time to time.

Though her fiance Fu Yu had never made his feelings clear, everyone had heard that at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, he sat in a wooden chair behind a black veil that blocked the crowd's view, yet showed special favor to Song Yanling's older sister, Song Miaomiao, and invited her behind the veil.

Fine, then. On her wedding day, Song Yanling finally found a chance to sling her bundle over her back and run away.

The groom, who should have gone to fetch his bride, also vanished. Their wedding became one of the capital's favorite jokes.

Free from the marriage, Song Yanling pulled the hairpins from her head, tied up her hair with a red ribbon, and rode off toward the frontier. The man she admired was the Jade-Faced General leading the army on this campaign.

With her martial skills, she gradually earned the general's trust and a place at the table beside the man she admired.

After their first battle ended in a great victory, Song Yanling drank with the Jade-Faced General by the bonfire. With a heartfelt sigh, she said, "It was a good thing I ran away from that marriage."

The usually taciturn Jade-Faced General finally spoke beneath his mask. "Miss Song, do you dislike the young master of the Fu family?"

"Of course. Rumor has it he coughs blood every day, can't even lift a sword, and likes my older sister. Why shouldn't I let them be together?" She leaned back, radiating bold, brilliant charm. Then she added, "If I'm going to like someone, I want someone like you, General."

Beneath his mask, the man's cheeks flushed faintly, but he shot a sideways glare at his guard Zhao Er, his eyes full of menace. Just what was that rumor about?!

Theme: Whether life is going well or badly, stay true to yourself and face everything with composure.