The Guard Keeps Watch Through the Spring Night

Princess Sheng Ni of Jiawan is sweet and alluring, the most beautiful woman in the capital. Countless young men fall for her, but the current emperor sees her as a thorn in his side.

All because she is a princess of the dynasty before the last.

The emperor assigns Sheng Ni a bodyguard. The man has refined features and the bearing of a cold blade still in its sheath, clearly destined for greatness.

From that moment, Sheng Ni knows that this blade has actually been sent to take her life.

Sheng Ni continues to smile, innocent and harmless, coldly watching the bodyguard act loyal. She watches him use his inner strength to treat her old injuries, coughing up blood as he harms himself in the process. She watches him kneel in the snow through the night, simply to beg for her mercy...

So Sheng Ni decides to make their act even more convincing. She takes him as her lover and lures him into risking his life for her.

One day, a cold arrow flies toward her. The bodyguard shields her with his own body, and the arrow buries itself in his chest. He doesn't make a sound.

Sheng Ni personally digs the arrowhead out and saves his life.

But only when she finds a stack of secret letters inside his bloodstained clothes does she learn that he is actually the current crown prince, Jing Chi, disguised with a changed face.

Later, the capital is abuzz with rumors that Princess Jiawan has accepted Prince Jin's proposal and cast aside her former stunning lover like yesterday's trash.

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Crown Prince Jing Chi disguises himself as a bodyguard and goes undercover beside the orphaned princess to investigate a case. But he gets too caught up in the act, lets her take away his sword and unfasten his light armor, and feels the ice in his heart melt into spring water.

The first thing Jing Chi does after rising to power again is capture the little temptress who seduced him and then abandoned him, bringing her back to the Eastern Palace.

The red candles shine as bright as day. The former lover, now dressed in the crown prince's splendid robes and handsome as jade, approaches the little princess hiding behind the curtains, step by step.

He slowly pulls open his collar, revealing a hideous arrow scar on his firm chest. His breath is hot as he asks, "A Ni, who are you planning to cast aside like yesterday's trash?"

[Sweet little temptress x sinister fake bodyguard]

#ThePossessiveCrownPrinceInsistsOnBeingMyLoyalBodyguard#

*There is no national feud between the old and new dynasties.

*Alternate universe, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

Theme: Protection is a lifelong vow.