Harm from All but You

Cool, aloof female assassin x talkative young nobleman

In the past, there were fake and real daughters. Today, there's a switched-at-birth young master.

Shen Mi, the former young master of Jiyue Manor, was the victim of this melodramatic affair.

Raised in luxury since childhood, he was once a well-known...

a wastrel.

Never mind anything else, that handsome face of his drew girls from both inside and outside the pleasure quarters flocking to him.

He'd been too flashy in the past. After the real young master was brought home, Shen Mi was kicked out.

The scions of noble families he'd once been close to not only refused to help him, some even took the opportunity to retaliate by putting a bounty of a few taels of silver on his head.

The only servant who followed him comforted him: "Don't take it to heart, young master. Everyone in the capital knows this is meant to humiliate you. Besides, no one would take a murder job for just a few taels of silver."

Shen Mi: "You're right. Don't say it again next time."

Who knew that the very next day, an unknown assassin would tear down the bounty notice.

Shen Mi: ?

That's a real way to kill someone with humiliation!

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The Sixteen States of Yunya are a gathering place for assassins from across the martial world.

It's also where Shang Zhi grew up.

After years as a sidekick, she came to Yundu City alone for the first time.

Everything is hard at first, so she planned to start with something simple.

For example...

Pick the cheapest target on the bounty board and use him to practice.

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After seeing with his own eyes how this nameless girl could chop down a big tree with her bare hands,

Shen Mi suddenly felt that being born with his temper was somewhat too hasty.

If you can't beat her, join her.

A magnanimous man can endure much. A true man can bend, then bend some more.

So a few months later, by teaching himself to do the laundry and cook,

he went from a target for assassination to the first sidekick of a famous female assassin.

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[Everyday Scene]

They run into a rival in love who provokes them.

Shen Mi: Launches into a furious verbal assault...

Shang Zhi thinks: I can't understand him. What nonsense is he babbling about? Is Shen Mi saying that guy likes me? Does he like my spear?

Shen Mi: Keeps up the verbal assault...

Shang Zhi thinks: Why do they have to talk so much? Are they close?

Shen Mi suddenly turns around: "Hand me the gourd." (His mouth is dry from all that talking, and he wants a drink.)

Shang Zhi immediately raises her spear: "Are you done? Can we fight now?"

Reading Guide

Both leads are each other's only partners, lighthearted.

Set in a wuxia martial world, not a cultivation fantasy.

About the characters:

The heroine is stronger than the hero. The heroine won't be strong while the hero is even stronger.

The heroine has maxed-out combat skills, but as a newcomer, she lacks experience dealing with people. She's very direct and would always rather use her fists than her words.

The sunny male lead acts like a wastrel for certain reasons. He's actually clever, handsome, and extremely talkative, chattering nonstop.

There's a transmigrator among the supporting characters, but they have little effect on the story.

There is no evil in the world besides you.

So this novel is also known as My Decorative, Useless Trophy Husband (Though Sometimes He's Useful).

I'm used to aloof male leads and wanted to try the opposite. I thought this pairing would be cute, so I just let myself go with it.

As always, there are countless good stories on Jinjiang, and everyone has different tastes. This is here for you to choose; if it's not your thing, please don't flame me.

My next book: Song of Sparrow Feathers

Loulan hostage prince x princess sent to marry into another kingdom

Fu Fu is a princess of the Ming Dynasty who grew up among ordinary people.

She was fourteen when her biological older brother found her and brought her into the imperial palace.

The emperor was cold-hearted, and her mother had died young. After returning, Fu Fu even felt she would have been freer outside the palace.

One day, she accidentally wandered into the small tower of the Loulan hostage prince. The golden-haired, blue-eyed boy looked like a deity in the sunlight.

Fu Fu stared at him, then immediately knelt to make a wish.

Lou Yu had probably never met anyone so simple and honest. He coughed twice and said,

"If you want to make a wish, you have to make an offering first."

He was only joking, but the girl really did start bringing food and jewels as offerings on a regular basis.

She said her wishes were to have someone dine with her, watch the moon together on a palace rooftop, catch carp in the Imperial Garden pond, visit the temple fair on the fifth day of the fifth month, and travel to mountains, lakes, and seas all over the world.

The boy put on the airs of a deity and accompanied her on every one of those outings.

But on the fifth day of the fifth month, he failed to keep his promise.

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Two years later, on the way to the grasslands to be married off, she was abducted.

The man who intercepted her bridal sedan had dark eyes and black hair. He arrived with a group of strangely dressed people, knelt and called her a goddess, then made wishes without listening to her explanations. Every day, they carried her sedan around from place to place.

She ran, he chased, and she couldn't escape. Fu Fu was on the verge of a breakdown, so she told him to his face that her heart already belonged to someone else.

The prince she'd known as a child.

The man's expression remained unchanged, but inside he was overjoyed by her confirmation. That night, he washed the dye from his hair, revealing lake-green eyes.

Appearing before her in the guise he had worn in the past, he said:

"So you liked me all along, too."

[You always called me a deity, but in truth, you're the goddess who saved me from the depths of misery.]

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A little story about saving each other, written to practice my prose. It's entirely fictional. I just wanted to read a story about a beautiful, hardworking Loulan hostage prince and a kind, simple-hearted Central Plains princess saving each other, so I wrote one myself!

Theme: Love is certain and singular.