The Tearful Shadow Guard's Daily Life

[A tear-prone female bodyguard vs. an abstinent minister who gets aroused by the heroine's tears]

As a highly skilled bodyguard, Zhou Yijian has been prone to tears since birth.

To save face in front of her colleagues, she always leaves as soon as she's finished off her target, never lingering, leaving only an inscrutable silhouette behind.

Colleague A: So cool! I want to learn that too!

Colleague B: Hmph, what a show-off!

Zhou Yijian hides in a corner, frantically wiping her tears: Boohoo, I just can't hold them back!!

In her fifth year of taking assignments to save money, just as Zhou Yijian counts the coins in her purse and dreams of a life of freedom, Prince Shen Guanzhi returns.

Shen Guanzhi has newly inherited his princely title and is a powerful figure at court. Handsome as a jade carving, aloof and proud, he is the unattainable flower atop a high peak admired by countless noblewomen in the capital.

If he didn't drag the bodyguards through training day and night, Zhou Yijian would worship him like a beautiful immortal.

Morning martial arts practice: Zhou Yijian hasn't had enough sleep and is full of resentment, so she can't stop crying.

Running errands at noon: Zhou Yijian hasn't had enough to eat and is hungry and irritated, so she can't stop crying.

Lessons in the evening: Zhou Yijian hates books and scholarly airs most of all, so she can't stop crying.

Then one day, Shen Guanzhi catches her secretly wiping away her tears.

Zhou Yijian is mortified, but she never expects Shen Guanzhi to start acting stranger and stranger toward her.

First, he wipes her tears himself. Then he strokes her cheek with his long, elegant fingers. Finally, he leans down to her face and kisses away every trace of her damp tears with his thin lips...

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Shen Guanzhi is cold and desireless, accustomed to restraining himself and observing propriety.

For several days after returning to the prince's residence, an inexplicable restlessness keeps rising within him. He pays it no mind, deciding it's just his age, and tries all sorts of ways to suppress it.

Before long, Shen Guanzhi first traces the source of the trouble to a tearful bodyguard.

At that moment, her phoenix eyes curve slightly, and the tears welling up quickly dampen her face. Their salty scent lingers before him, growing ever stronger, and Shen Guanzhi can barely suppress the desire that suddenly surges within him.

Later, Shen Guanzhi resolves several times to cut off the source, but each time he lets her get away with breaking the rules and crying in front of him.

Just as he repeatedly lowers his guard and is about to surrender to temptation, she brings out a bulging purse and hands him her resignation, smiling brightly. "My lord, here's the money to buy back my freedom. I'm leaving."

The densely packed words on her resignation pierce his eyes like needles, scraping him raw to the bone.

Only then does he realize that in front of her, every rule of the world means nothing.

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine cries whenever her emotions run high. Any strong feeling, whether excitement, nervousness, sadness, or grief, will make her cry uncontrollably.

2. The heroine's tears have an aphrodisiac effect on the hero (and only on him).

3. A lighthearted, sweet story with both leads' first times, a happy ending, one-on-one romance, and a plot that serves the characters and their relationship.

Theme: None for now.