A Match Made in the Imperial Guard [Gender Bender]

In the twenty-fourth year of Xingping, the Imperial Consort seized power, and the eunuch faction ran rampant.

In the first month, an edict demoted the crown prince to commoner and confined him in Tanzhou.

In the third month, the third and seventh princes were put to death.

In the seventh month, unable to endure the humiliation inflicted by Liu Wuyou, the leader of the eunuch faction, the fourth prince hanged himself in the Imperial Guard's prison.

From then on, the Emperor of Great Jing had no adult sons in the palace. Only the ninth prince, raised under the care of Imperial Consort Liu, remained. He was still a child, but had been bedridden for years and had little time left.

In the ninth month, Li Jian, Deputy Commander of the Northern Garrison's Embroidered Guard, risked death to accuse Imperial Consort Liu of corrupting the imperial harem and tampering with the royal bloodline. The consort knelt before the throne and refused to rise. The Emperor pitied and cherished her, flew into a rage, and ordered Liu Wuyou, the Director of the Eastern Depot, to investigate Li Jian's crime of disrespect.

A little over a month after Li Jian was imprisoned, he died suddenly for no apparent reason. Liu Wuyou shelved the case of Li Jian's alleged disrespect and took no further action.

That same month, Li Jian's daughter, Li Jinghe, returned to the Li residence from Wudang, where she had been training. Disguised as a man, she took the place of her sickly, deceased second brother and her father's post, becoming an officer in the Embroidered Guard's Northern Garrison.

To put it nicely, she was the imperial court's hunting dog, the Emperor's claws.

To put it bluntly, she was a dog at Liu Wuyou's beck and call.

But it didn't matter. Liu Wuyou was also a loyal dog serving the Imperial Consort.

They were all dogs. Who was better than whom?

Li Jinghe entered the Northern Garrison with only one purpose: to kill Liu Wuyou, the eunuch faction's leader and the Director of the Eastern Depot, who had brought the country to ruin.

That was what she intended, and that was what she did. She was even on the verge of succeeding.

Until she saw that scourge of mankind remove the half-mask of gold from the right side of his face, revealing an eerie, beautiful face marred by a terrible, ugly scar that went down to the bone.

He knelt before the grave of Cheng Pu, the late Grand Tutor, and wept bitterly.

He said:

"Your son has failed you. I can neither clear your name and right your wrongs, nor restore order to the court and punish the wicked. All I can do... all I can do is drag this broken body through life, barely surviving beneath the feet of the enemy who destroyed my family."

Cheng Pu, tutor to the former crown prince, was Li Jian's old friend and the man who had saved his life.

Li Jinghe could only sheath her blade and hold it out before him.

"From now on, I will be your blade."

The Director of the Eastern Depot, Liu Wuyou, recently acquired a fine blade. They say it can slice through iron like mud and has such a keen edge that it can kill without drawing blood.

Listening to the rumors spreading through the city, Liu Wuyou looked helplessly at the Embroidered Guard standing before him with a sword on her back and patiently lectured her.

"There are countless corrupt officials in the realm. If you don't plan ahead and proceed step by step, do you mean to kill them one by one?"

Li Jinghe: "I don't see why not."

"The corrupt and sycophantic officials stretch from the Meridian Gate to the city gates. How long would it take you to kill them all?!"

Li Jinghe: "Three days at the least, half a month at most. Depends how fast they run."

"Corrupt officials have always valued their lives, and their homes are guarded by the Imperial Guard. Are you going to take on the entire Imperial Guard by yourself?!"

Li Jinghe: "Why not?"

Liu Wuyou thought he would spend his whole life bearing the grudge of his family's destruction, enduring humiliation as a fiend who brought ruin to the country, until Li Jinghe held her blade before him.

She is the demon who dragged him into a sea of desire, and also the bodhisattva who rescued him from hell, all alone.

Physical exorcism by an Embroidered Guard x spiritual redemption for a eunuch

Reader's Guide: 1. This is a gender-bender story! Gender-bender! Gender-bender! Gender-bender! Important things must be said three times.

2. Since it's already a gender-bender story, the male lead's unnecessary parts have been removed. He is a real eunuch.

3. The heroine is a combat powerhouse, the strongest in the world, but she's constrained in various ways early on and can't show her full abilities.

4. Both are sexually inexperienced, but the heroine is very adventurous.

5. The male lead was forced to kill many good people. The story will explain the details.

Blurb written on 2023.1.6

Theme: The clouds will part, and the moon will shine again