[Dream of the Red Chamber] The Frail Mistress and Her Muscular Guard

Please add my upcoming novel to your favorites: My Consort Has a White Moonlight

Lin Daiyu is the protagonist. A sweet romance about a marriage that blossoms into love.

[Apocalyptic disaster × zombies and refugees × farming and infrastructure × raising troops and seizing power]

[No System × no transmigration × no golden finger]

Daiyu finally gets her parents' blessing and the matchmaker's approval to marry Baoyu.

But the court raids the Jia family estate before the wedding can take place. Before they can even exchange vows, she has to become the Second Young Mistress of the Jia family and defend the household against bandits.

After the Jia family is stripped of its wealth, only two estates remain.

Daiyu holds the Lin family's million-tael fortune, but she is sickly, and everyone is waiting to devour her estate after her death.

With the walking dead and bandits ravaging the land day and night, the country falls and families are destroyed.

Daiyu narrowly escapes death by hanging herself with a strip of white silk and realizes that managing a household takes more than earning everyone's obedience.

What she needs most right now is someone who can guard her home.

"Pei Shi, since you saved my life, you're responsible for me from now on."

A handsome nobleman spends ten years in a monastery under an assumed name.

Amid the chaos of the age, he becomes a murderous rakshasa. Then he is expelled from the monastery and returns to secular life.

Pei Shi originally meant to hunt down his enemy and avenge himself, but he falls prey to his delicate mistress's art of making herself seem helpless.

From then on, the lady of the Jia household has an excellent guard dog by her side, and one that eats people, too.

The servants who look down on others fear him, and bandits and walking dead no longer dare attack the Jia estate.

Not only does he guard her home and fight off bandits, he helps her recover and train in martial arts.

Even when she asks him to clear the walking dead from the capital and search for her betrothed, he obeys without question, no matter how dangerous it is.

He can't help it. He saved Daiyu's life, and if he lets her die now, all his effort will have been for nothing.

Before long, the delicate mistress becomes a powerful figure in the new dynasty.

Her contributions to the new emperor also restore her family fortune and bring her wealth and honor.

But then her childhood sweetheart and betrothed returns to the household with another woman.

For the rest of his life, Pei Shi will protect only her.

Seeing tears in her eyes, how could he bear to let others bully her?

"I told you. I thought you understood."

Pei Shi pins Daiyu in a corner, baring all his feelings.

"When everything is peaceful again, I'll take you back to Gusu."

Delicate, sickly lady of the household × unhinged chief guard and trainer

Lin Daiyu, mistress of a wealthy family in the apocalypse × Pei Shi, a stone as mighty as Dwayne Johnson

◆ Content warnings ◆

0. The author likes Shi Xiangyun and this story will portray Xue Baochai very negatively. The Baoyu-Daiyu pairing will absolutely be broken up, so please take note!

1. A poor sequel to the Dream of the Red Chamber, with ancient apocalyptic infrastructure-building and farming, famine, Liu Min, and a red-moon zombie outbreak.

2. This is the original Daiyu. At first, she still has lingering feelings for Baoyu, but she eventually lets him go. Give her time to change and grow... at the very least, she has to get healthy first...

3. If the Green Snake can have the handsome monk Fahai play with her in the water, then I can have a muscular flower monk return to secular life.

4. The heroine, Lin Daiyu, is unquestionably the protagonist. The hero is just Daiyu's golden finger, dog, servant, personal trainer, bodyguard, tool, and so on.

5. Daiyu's martial arts development focuses on getting stronger and building up her health, with a touch of muscular aesthetics.

◆ Here's another sweet romance starring Daiyu, My Consort Has a White Moonlight ◆

[Marriage before love | Possessive pursuit]

When Prince Su Rong Chun asked the emperor to arrange his marriage, he already knew that the Lin girl staying with the Jia family had lost her parents and had no siblings. She was also sickly.

Such a pitiful girl would be perfect for pretending to be sweet and pitiful alongside him in the struggle for the throne.

After they completed the three bows, the prince, who uses a wheelchair, was fine, but his bride vomited blood right there.

Their wedding became a joke in the capital:

"We thought the princess would be the one stuck in a miserable marriage, but it turns out the prince married her to bring him good luck."

A disabled prince and a consumptive princess: truly a perfect match.

Prince Su Rong Chun devotes himself to helping his elder brother seize the throne, while Daiyu manages the household so well that everyone praises her. Rong Chun, too, falls for her.

Watching Daiyu sigh and weep alone in the moonlight, he sees poems filled with the sorrow of a lonely wife longing for her love.

Feeling that he has failed a wife who sincerely cares for him, Rong Chun begins to wish for a lifetime of love with his princess.

But when Rong Chun is ordered to raid the Jia estate, Daiyu threatens to kill herself unless he spares the cousin who was her childhood sweetheart.

Only then does Rong Chun realize that his wife's virtuous behavior is nothing more than her sense of duty.

And all her sorrow and tears have always been for her cousin.

[By the way, the characters' expressions in the image below change with their status as I update the story =w=]

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