My Sickly Cousin Who Can't Take Care of Himself

Blurb:

"Lord Lone Wolf, commander of the Owl Cavalry, is highly skilled in martial arts and ruthless. He is known as the sharpest blade in Emperor Qiyuan's hand, a living iron-faced King of Hell. If he wants someone dead by the third watch, they will never live to see the fifth."

As it happened, Tan Xi once stumbled upon a murder scene by chance, and was too frightened to leave the house for days.

Unfortunately, her father, a fifth-rank official, was devoted to currying favor with the powerful. Her mother was busy attending social functions, while her older siblings were occupied with the imperial examinations and choosing spouses. No one would listen to her. "You're just a child. Stop talking nonsense."

She was already thirteen! And she wasn't talking nonsense!

With nowhere to vent her frustration, Tan Xi had no choice but to head to the secluded West Garden and seek out her distant cousin, Brother Zhao, who was staying with them.

"...That wolf is terrifying!" Tan Xi gestured wildly, making a throat-slitting motion.

Brother Zhao gently patted her head, his expression somewhat complicated.

Tan Xi looked at the young man's pale lips, made so by his frail health since childhood, and his legs, which kept him confined to a wheelchair. Misunderstanding what he meant, she patted her chest and softly reassured him, "Of course, I'll protect you. Don't be afraid."

Who knew that two years later, at her coming-of-age ceremony, some damned busybody would persuade her father to offer her to Lord Lone Wolf as his bride?

Her father agreed at once for the sake of his career.

On the verge of tears, Tan Xi hurried to Brother Zhao to ask what to do, only to find the place empty.

With no other choice, on the eve of her wedding, Tan Xi managed to escape by faking her death, with help from her childhood sweetheart next door.

Who could have known those fiends would pursue her relentlessly, as if they had dogs' noses?

Terrified, Tan Xi was finally seized by the wrist and pinned against a tree. When she looked up, she saw a familiar, elegant face as beautiful as jade.

Her childhood sweetheart fell to the ground in fright. "L-Lone Wolf!"

Tan Xi stared at her frail, helpless Brother Zhao... no, Lord Lone Wolf, and fainted on the spot, unable to catch her breath.

When she opened her eyes again, it was her wedding night.

Lu Zhao wore a bright red wedding robe, devastatingly handsome, but the dark, obsessive look in his eyes was frightening.

"Why did you run?"

"Didn't you say you'd protect me for the rest of your life?"

Tan Xi curled up in the corner of the bed, trembling. She couldn't regret it more.

* A black-hearted gray wolf hero and a silly beauty, a story of possessive love and escape.

Theme: The road may be winding, but the future is bright.