The Commander Is Off Duty Today

[The next novel, Auspicious Hour Today, has already updated to 200,000 words. Find it in the author's collection; the blurb is at the end.]

Blurb for this novel ↓

[Emotionally steady, truly delicate, truly willing to wield a blade, noblewoman x duty-loving, rarely takes leave, truly enjoys his job, Commander] The heiress is genuinely delicate and genuinely wields a blade. The commander really is a dog. (First book, reader beware!!!)

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The Huo family of Dayu enjoys the emperor's favor. Rumor has it that Huo Chengyang, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, and Huo Shu, the Grand Tutor, amassed a fortune and spent every last coin indulging the Huo family's young lady.

Unfortunately, when Huo Qingqing was nine, she suffered a terrible mishap and was sent to a manor in the south to recuperate. She stayed there for nearly ten years.

When Huo Qingqing was eighteen, she was summoned back to the capital. There, she encountered Gu Yan, the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, whom her father had accused in his letters of betraying his benefactor and murdering him to seize his position.

He was dashing in fine clothes, riding a fine horse, and possessed a truly striking face, just the sort her best friend liked.

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According to rumor, Gu Yan, the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, took the post at twenty. After almost two years as commander, he didn't have ten taels of silver to his name.

Everyone in court called him a treacherous dog, Gu Yan, accusing him of murdering his benefactor to seize the position and slaughtering countless colleagues.

Wearing a smiling face and carrying his Embroidered Spring Saber, Gu Yan sentenced those who deserved punishment and killed those who deserved death, sparing no one.

At the time, Gu Yan had been ordered to investigate a case involving the Changsheng Cult. A year had passed, and he still had no leads on the person behind it.

Emperor Mingshun summoned Miss Huo back to the capital, saying she would help him with the case.

Looking at Miss Huo, a delicate and pampered girl raised amid piles of silver, he couldn't see how she could be of any use, much less help him solve the case.

Until...

Miss Huo pinned him face-down against the desk, snatched his saber, and slammed it down beside his ear. Only then did he realize Emperor Mingshun hadn't been exaggerating.

Miss Huo... might really be able to help him solve the case.

"Little scene"

"Lord Gu is so handsome. If I hired him as a dinner companion, I could eat two extra bowls of rice."

Lord Gu kept a blank face and nodded.

"I'm Gu Yan. This is my employer."

----A lighter blurb----

Gu Yan, Commander Gu, rarely took leave after assuming his post. The one time he did was when he was so badly wounded he was nearly dead, and he took a month off.

But after meeting Miss Huo, he started taking leave every month. When they married, he asked the emperor for five years off, claiming it was to strengthen his relationship with his wife.

The emperor nearly had him beaten out of his study.

Huo Qingqing's eighteenth birthday: Gu Yan was at work. Afterward, he hurried over, covered in blood from the waist up.

Huo Qingqing's nineteenth birthday: Gu Yan was at work. He said her birthday would come around again, and interrogating a suspect was more important. Then he climbed over the wall at midnight to make up for it with a birthday gift.

Huo Qingqing's twentieth birthday: Gu Yan skipped morning court. Nobody at either the Northern or Southern Embroidered Uniform Guard office saw him. In the end, they found a note on his desk: My wife's birthday. Don't disturb me unless it's important.

The Embroidered Uniform Guards: 6

[Reading guide]

· One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners

· The female lead is no slouch in a fight; both leads are powerful

· A mostly serious, romance-focused story. I'll do my best to finish it

· The female lead is doted on by everyone and has a crowd of admirers. One-sided crushes keep piling up, with friends and family there to protect her

· Place names are made up as I go

· I don't know what else to write. I've included everything I can think of, QWQ. Hope you enjoy reading, and may everything go smoothly for you.

· I'm glad we can watch them join hands and share a peaceful, happy life together.

Next novel: Auspicious Hour Today. Two powerful leads, both generals, with mysticism, battlefields, and mutual salvation. It has already updated to 100,000 words. If you like it, please add it to your collection and come see a tale of young people with lofty ambitions amid the clash of swords and spears.

Blurb ↓

Xu Xiaoqu was reborn, reborn right...

Under General Yue Chengqiu's horse's hooves...

Looking at the horse's hooves raised high, blotting out the sky, Xu Xiaoqu had only five words in her mind: My life is over again.

She couldn't understand why the life-changing talisman passed down by her master clearly bore the words "Auspicious Hour for Changing Fate," yet had dropped her onto a mountain road, and not just any road, but the one where Yue Chengqiu was pursuing enemy troops.

Yue Chengqiu couldn't understand it either. The road had been empty, so why had a woman suddenly appeared out of nowhere?

Then Yue Chengqiu pulled on the reins, and Xu Xiaoqu rolled aside to dodge. She got up, covered in dust, and smiled with the air of an immortal (crossed out) an inscrutable mystic. "You're General Yue, right? I'm Wen Shengan, the foremost fortune-teller of Mount Xuanji's direct disciple. I've come at my master's command to lend you a hand, General Yue."

---Already updated to 200,000 words, word word word word word...

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