After Marrying My Mission Target

[Fake invalid husband × faux delicate wife]

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Shen Ruining has three wishes:

First: Kill the enemies who murdered her parents with her own hands.

Second: If the Empress Dowager arranges a marriage for her, let her husband be frail and mild-tempered.

Third: Let that masked man from the Yingwei Bureau stop showing up.

Empress Dowager: "What do you think of Lin Yuanzhao, the Grand Preceptor?"

Shen Ruining looks up sharply. Well, isn't that convenient?

Lin Yuanzhao, the Grand Preceptor, is the very person the Xiaoyue House told her to keep under surveillance!

He is as elegant as a jade tree and extraordinarily learned, but suffers from a chronic illness that never improves. Because of his health, he even gave up the chance to join the cabinet. Everyone in the capital laments his misfortune.

Shen Ruining thinks that with such a frail husband, and with him indebted to her, he will surely never see through her disguise. She can also monitor him up close from every angle every day. It's perfect!

She rejoices inwardly, but puts on a gentle, demure expression. "I'll leave it all to Your Majesty."

After their wedding, Shen Ruining and Lin Yuanzhao live together in warm harmony, respecting one another like honored guests. Shen Ruining thinks that once she avenges her great wrong, she and her husband can part on good terms.

Unexpectedly, the house gives her a new assignment.

And so...

On a moonless, windy night, Shen Ruining, shadowlike, is cornered against the city wall, a cold blade pressed to her throat.

She glances at the mask shattered on the ground, then looks at Lin Yuanzhao, who is dressed in black just like her. She can't help smiling. "Husband, be gentle. You're hurting me."

Lin Yuanzhao raises an eyebrow, a smile playing at the corner of his mouth. "Wife, could you first remove the dagger pressed against your husband's back?"

As it happens, Lin Yuanzhao also has three wishes:

First: Kill the old enemies who murdered his family.

Second: Protect his delicate wife.

Third: Catch the thief from the Xiaoyue House known as Xingyan.

Premise: Keep striving forward and pursue progress.