After I Abandoned My Shadow Guard

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A brilliant, strategic county princess × a cool, taciturn, loyal shadow guard

A fake second-chance romance

Luo Yinong found a dying young shadow guard by a clear stream in a mountain ravine and brought him home. His face was covered in blood, but nothing could hide his handsome, jade-like features.

The shadow guard was gravely wounded, fragile and vulnerable. Luo Yinong lifted his chin with a fingertip, only to meet the ruthless ferocity hidden in his eyes.

Taming a man like this had to be even more fun than taming the wildest beast.

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Beneath the dark sky screen, a crescent moon shone with a clear, rippling radiance.

Luo Yinong changed out of her splendid daytime clothes and into dark traveling attire. Carrying a cold sword, she unexpectedly crossed paths with the recovering shadow guard.

Luo Yinong: "Still not recovered from your serious injuries?"

Rong Yuanyin: "Frailty and delicate beauty?"

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As his wounds healed, the shadow guard's sharp edge began to show. Yet he learned to expose the vulnerable nape of his neck to Luo Yinong, seeking her favor.

At last, he mustered all his courage to initiate a light kiss. But Luo Yinong seemed to sense him and turned her head away, pressing her slender index finger against his cool, thin lips. "Only when you have completely opened your heart to me will you have the right to speak of our future."

But after he laid everything bare and fought his way out of a sea of blood and flames, what awaited him was an imperial decree: County Princess Yikang was promoted to commandery princess and betrothed to the Crown Prince.

Luo Yinong could not even be bothered to leave him a few words herself. She only had someone pass on a message: "I'm returning to the capital to marry. I don't want you anymore."

After the new emperor ascended the throne, he welcomed back Rong Jin, heir to the Prince of Yue, who had been living abroad. It was said that he had once been a lowly shadow guard, but no one dared to comment on the days he had struggled to survive in the mud.

Yet this audacious heir dared to corner a commandery princess inside a palace hall, just a wall away from a lively banquet. She had once been betrothed to the former Crown Prince. He lifted her chin flirtatiously, though his eyes were full of menace. "Your Highness, if you want power and status, wouldn't you be better off choosing me over that useless man, who is still at the mercy of others?"

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A faux-civil, powerful minister × a truly cold-hearted princess

The royal house of the Deng Dynasty had fallen into decline. Princess Jiang Ruyi of Lin'an refused to be a caged bird, controlled by others and married off to spend her life confined in a secluded mansion. She spent half her life laboring tirelessly to help her younger brother ascend the throne, exhausting herself until she died in the prime of her life.

She had thought her conscience was clear, but after her death, the ministers wept in public while secretly harboring their own agendas. Even the young emperor could not hide the complicated look in his eyes as he gazed at her coffin.

The only person who truly shed tears for her was Yan Wanhan, the powerful minister who had spent half his life clashing with Jiang Ruyi at court.

Jiang Ruyi's spirit did not fade away. She watched as Yan Wanhan carried the immense burden of preserving the Yan family's glory alone, only to have it revealed that he was not a member of the Yan clan but the illegitimate child of an affair. From high hopes to his final days, Yan Wanhan never married and died in the prime of his life.

As Jiang Ruyi sighed over his fate, she opened her eyes and found herself back in her youth, with the ministers still looking to her with hopeful eyes.

Jiang Ruyi no longer wanted to sacrifice her life for someone else's success. Remembering the tear Yan Wanhan had shed before her coffin, she decided to hand power over to him and live a carefree life of wealth and leisure.

Unexpectedly, Yan Wanhan's lips curled slightly. His upturned eyes held a seductive look completely unlike the proper gentleman he had been in his previous life. "How dull are the affairs of state. Your Highness, would you care to spend a blissful night with me?"

Jiang Ruyi paused.

How had she never noticed before how beautiful he was?

Theme: Be independent and strong.