A Straight Man, but the Tyrant's Shadow Guard

Shen Jue, a lazy, fragile college student, transmigrates into the body of a secret guard who lives by the blade.

Shen Jue: T﹏T

On his first day of wanting to quit, he sees a secret guard who tried to resign get fifty strokes of the cane.

Shen Jue quietly puts his resignation letter away.

Work is lonely, so Shen Jue finds himself a work buddy: the shyest, most awkward little secret guard.

Shen Jue drags him into complaining about their boss.

"A man like Fourth Prince is bound to be impotent. Just you wait, he'll never have an heir."

"To put it bluntly, there haven't been nearly enough assassination attempts on a sinister little man like the Fourth Prince."

Every time Shen Jue curses the Fourth Prince, the little secret guard shares his outrage. Shen Jue is very pleased with his work buddy.

As time passes, the two fall for each other and agree to quit together and live as a couple.

It's just that the little secret guard is clueless about romance and doesn't know how to make love.

With a grand sweep of his hand, Shen Jue draws plenty of pictures, and the two do everything they should and shouldn't do.

That is, until the day the Fourth Prince is named Crown Prince.

Lying on a roof beam, Shen Jue sees a mole on the Fourth Prince's collarbone, exactly like the little secret guard's.

He'd just bitten that mole, and Shen Jue's teeth marks are still there.

Shen Jue: ⊙﹏⊙

Rumor has it that Fourth Prince Xiao Yu is cruel and merciless, and anyone who crosses him meets a gruesome end.

Shen Jue thinks he's done for.

He plans to explain things to Xiao Yu and, for the sake of their bond as work buddies, ask him to spare his life...

But as he approaches the door, he hears Xiao Yu say coldly, "I hate men who love men. Kill him."

Terrified, Shen Jue scrambles away.

Suddenly, everything goes black.

When he wakes, Xiao Yu is holding the familiar drawings, his expression dark. "Why run? Didn't you say you'd spend your whole life with me?"

"Let's try every pose you drew, all right?"

"You're amazing. I didn't know it could really bend like this..."

Shen Jue: "Wait, my back!"

Tsundere, love-struck gong x lazy, weepy shou

Younger gong, older shou: 20 and 18 when they meet

Coming soon: The Top Scholar's Husband Is a Bandit Chief

Wen Yu is a scholar heading to the capital to sit for the imperial exams, but he runs into bandits on the way and is kidnapped to become their chief's wife.

Wen Yu would rather die than submit, but they still force him to go through the wedding ceremony.

On their wedding night, the groom opens his eyes wide: "666, a beauty straight out of an ancient costume drama."

Wen Yu: "?"

The groom acts like a lunatic. When he learns that Wen Yu is a scholar on his way to take the exams, he insists on having the bandits escort him there.

He says, "Protecting an exam candidate is our duty."

Along the way, he keeps humming some unknown tune: "Whenever I've been sad, and soaked by the pouring rain..."

He even teaches the bandits around him every day: "Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony; freedom, equality, justice, rule of law..."

The bandits and their chief's wife make their way through wind and rain to the capital. The chief's wife wins the top scholar title, and the bandits are so delighted they hand out wedding sweets everywhere.

"Please support our chief's wife."

But fame invites trouble. Before long, Wen Yu is reported for having the wrong background. He comes from a bandit gang, and his husband has been in prison, so he fails the political screening.

The court sends people to investigate. The moment they see his husband's face, they drop to their knees. "Your Highness, the Crown Prince! You're still alive!"

Wen Yu: "...You're the Crown Prince?"

His husband: "I had no idea either. I stumbled into the Crown Prince's living-among-the-common-people plotline? My god, honey, does that make you the Crown Princess?"

I only wanted to become the top scholar, so how did I end up as the Crown Princess?

Theme: Strive hard and work toward your goals