Marrying the Shadow Guard

A sweet, gentle, and resilient girl x a cold, doting demon king

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Yu Yuan is the legitimate daughter of the prefect of Shanyang. After her birth mother dies, she loses her protection. Just after coming of age, she is set up by one of her father's concubines, packed off to the countryside with her belongings, and hastily married off to a farming family.

There is no auspicious wedding date, no lavish procession. In a daze, Yu Yuan marries Jiang Zhi.

Jiang Zhi has cool, distant features and a detached air. After welcoming Yu Yuan into his home, he sleeps in a separate room, as if she were not his wife but an ornament bought to brighten the house, or perhaps... a pet he had taken in?

Before she even has time to become afraid of this strange man, Jiang Zhi has already piqued her curiosity.

Yu Yuan loves to sleep in. Jiang Zhi never wakes her, instead quietly laying out a table full of fragrant food in the courtyard.

When Yu Yuan falls ill, Jiang Zhi shows no concern, yet keeps a lamp lit all night as he washes her and wipes away her sweat, again and again.

When Yu Yuan goes into town, Jiang Zhi does not accompany her. He only appears at the crucial moment and shields her from harm.

Just as the young girl begins to fall for him, Yu Yuan discovers one night that Jiang Zhi has actually climbed over the wall to meet another woman in secret!

[Male lead's perspective]

His identity as a farmer is a lie. Jiang Zhi was once a shadow guard who killed without mercy, serving under the Great Xia royal family's