A Shadow Guard, but Gossip Is Everywhere

The good news: I've transmigrated, and I have a golden finger System.

The bad news: It's the Hidden Guard System.

Being a hidden guard is a high-risk profession, and switching jobs is hard. But the nobility's circle is a mess, and the gossip is juicy.

The Consort Shu has a crush on her cousin; the Noble Consort and Beauty Lan are having a romance; a palace woman in the Cold Palace is hooking up with a madman; a little eunuch serving before the Emperor is in love with the senior maid of Noble Lady Li; and there's still gossip to uncover about which tom fathered the three-colored cat's kittens. Then the Emperor gives Yingliu to the Second Prince. Time to change bosses and find a new place to gossip.

The Second Prince's daughter isn't his biological child; the cousin Consort Shu likes is in love with a wet nurse; the Chief Minister is sleeping with his daughter-in-law; the Vice Minister of Works and his archenemy are locked in a love-hate relationship; the heir to the title of Earl Xuanwei has a thing for incest; and the Third Princess's husband is an M... But just as the job settles down, the Second Prince loses the succession struggle, is demoted to commoner, and the Fourth Prince becomes the new boss.

Whatever.

The bosses come and go, but the melons stay delicious.

The newly appointed Fourth Prince assigns him to serve the newly crowned Provincial Graduate, Jing Yan. He's shameless and lusts after a pretty face.

Jing Yan seems kind on the surface, but he's a ruthless schemer. He kills his stepmother, severs ties with his mentor, exposes a fellow student and gets him disqualified from the imperial exams, catches a son-in-law at the exam results announcement and then gets his father-in-law's entire family executed, and writes poems and essays to curry favor with the Emperor. He'll stop at nothing to climb to the top, and he's willing to pay any price.

Including taking off his scholar's robe and offering himself, hoping to use his beauty to turn the hidden guard against his master.

"My lord, I know you like me." Jing Yan hid a knife in his sleeve and hooked an arm around the hidden guard's neck, seductively tempting him.

Yingliu: This is going to be the death of me.

But when you think about it, what's the difference between serving one person as a hidden guard and serving another? Jing Yan fights his way up the ladder only to put an end to this turbulent world and save it. Though he's mired in filth himself, he wants to give the people peace.

Right, he's definitely not lusting after that ruthless man's body. He's doing it all for the good of the world.

Theme: Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, and a destiny for the people.