After Marrying Into the Family, the Embroidered Guard Pursues Her

Shen Jinbao, the only daughter of a wealthy country landowner, lost her father to illness one day. A corrupt official set his sights on the family’s wealth. He planned to take her as a concubine, then force her to her death. To protect her family’s property and her own life, Shen Jinbao decided to find a husband who would marry into her family. One day, she rescued a stunningly handsome man with grave injuries near the mountain. When the corrupt official came to seize her, she dragged the man onto her bed and pretended to seduce him at the last moment. Then, using the fact that she had saved his life to blackmail him, she forced him to become her live-in husband. After they married, Shen Jinbao worried her live-in husband might cause trouble, so she kept making up rules for him. She told him a live-in husband had to be virtuous, gentle, thrifty, and good at managing the household. He had to bring her foot-washing water every day and spend no more than thirty copper coins a month. She managed to offend him completely. Later, someone came to tell her that the husband she ordered around every day had an extraordinary identity, and was no pushover. Shen Jinbao was horrified. She decided to drug him, grab the family fortune, and run. After many twists and turns, Shen Jinbao disguised herself as a man and went to the capital to do business. At a flower-viewing banquet, she met her live-in husband again. He was no longer the cold-faced husband who had lived under her roof. He had become Lu Sui, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, a man who had killed countless people and was famed for his honeyed words and treacherous heart. Shen Jinbao was terrified out of her wits. “...I can’t let him find out who I am. If he does, I’m dead.” Lu Sui: “Tsk.” Lu Sui was the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and the most famous among all those who had held the post. He had a lofty bearing and a noble, handsome face. Every gesture was graceful, yet beneath his bodhisattva’s face lay a devil’s heart. He was famous for his cunning, treachery, and ruthless methods, and everyone in the capital trembled at the mention of his name. Only Shen Jinbao dared to order him around and take liberties with him. When he wanted to give her a proper title, she drugged him and ran away. On the day Shen Jinbao fled, Lu Sui blocked her path and smiled unhurriedly. “I just remembered there’s an account I haven’t settled with my wife yet.” Theme: Never give up hope, even when life has you cornered