That Shadow Guard Was Snatched Away by His Majesty

★ Thanks to the lovely bs for the cover. Post ID: 1670845

★ My next book will be I'm Hungry Again, Turns Out Beauty Can't Be Eaten. My completed novel, Let Go of Me, I Didn't Get Pregnant, is available to read.

★ Reader advisory: Pregnancy and childbirth. Men can marry men in this setting. The author has made up a mountain of worldbuilding, has no grasp of logic, and declines suggestions. Please don't overthink things.

★ Blurb:

Shuci was raised from childhood to be a shadow guard. His first assignment was to watch over a certain sickly beauty.

His master said there was nothing Shuci needed to do. He just had to fulfill the sickly beauty's every demand.

As long as the sickly beauty asked.

Shuci agreed, and was confined to the estate along with the sickly beauty.

The sickly beauty was wonderful in every way, except that he had too much time on his hands and was always teasing Shuci.

The sickly beauty said, "Today I want a dish that's not sour, sweet, salty, bland, greasy, light, tender, or tough."

Shuci obediently agreed, then promptly dumped the vegetable basket over his head.

"I can't cook."

The sickly beauty played chess with him, making ten moves and taking back eight.

Seeing Shuci's face darken, he simply shoved the board aside as if by accident. "Oops, my hand slipped."

Shuci understood. After all, he was a patient.

But patients belonged in bed.

So, after being forced to lie in bed for eight days, the sickly beauty learned his lesson. He obediently went to Shuci, planning to come clean.

That night, when the sickly beauty returned after speaking with his master, he was feverishly hot all over. Clutching Shuci, he asked if Shuci wanted to leave with him.

Shuci didn't understand. He simply put someone else in his bed and told him to find his own cure.

But in the end, he couldn't bring himself to leave and turned back.

He never expected the sickly beauty to be so strong.

He... had been faking it all along.

After one passionate night, the sickly beauty disappeared.

Shuci was at a loss for three months, then suddenly discovered he was pregnant.

Shuci: ?

Just then, his master, who hadn't contacted him for a long time, assigned him another mission: assassinate the emperor.

Shuci went.

He thought, Once I finish this job, I'll quit and go home.

He never expected to walk straight into the wolf's den.

The beauty seated on the dragon throne smiled as he pulled Shuci into his arms.

"Thank you for delivering yourself right to my door."

Blurb for I'm Hungry Again, Turns Out Beauty Can't Be Eaten:

Someone said, "I really hate Xu Wu."

Xu Wu said, "There are already plenty of people who hate me. You can't cut in line."

Someone said, "Xu Wu is so mean."

Xu Wu said, "A kind word warms you through the winter. Insulting people is so much fun."

Xu Wu scoffs at other people's dislike, but when he likes someone, he makes a world-shaking spectacle of it.

While keeping up his mean-guy persona, Xu Wu hands out number tickets to everyone who catches his interest, putting on a show of enjoying life and lying flat. Then, by "accident," one of the tickets ends up in the hands of the young master of Wancheng:

"I like a lot of people, and you're number 99. Congratulations, you've made the top 100."

Young Master Rong Wu: "..."

Rong Wu has always looked down on people who lie flat.

Especially Xu Wu, who earns only three thousand a month and still lies flat every day!

Rong Wu: Is that your salary? I thought it was a refund for something you bought online.

Xu Wu scoffed. "You have no idea how little I make. Do you know what a monthly salary of three thousand means? If you grabbed one cent in the group chat every day, you'd need eight hundred years."

Rong Wu: "..."

Rong Wu conceded.

Rong Wu transferred money:

[Alipay deposit: 10,000 yuan]

In return, Xu Wu handed him a card. "Here, keep this safe. The PIN is six zeros, and so is the balance."

Rong Wu: "..."

[Highlight] All the jokes come from the internet.

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Theme: Struggle against fate without ever giving up