My Husband Is a Shadow Guard

Shao Jingyi died suddenly after staying up all night working on an experiment, then transmigrated into the body of an impoverished scholar who thought far too highly of himself.

After failing the imperial examinations yet again, his stepmother, at the end of her patience, sold him to a hunter in a neighboring village as his live-in son-in-law.

He heard that the hunter's son had been lost as a child and only recently found. He had been injured and lost his memory, unable to remember anything. Now he was nearing the age when the authorities would force him into marriage, yet still lived alone. The old hunter had spent a great deal of money trying to find him a live-in son-in-law.

Although the young man was quite pitiful, Shao Jingyi refused to accept an arranged marriage. But after trying every way he could to get out of it, he suddenly realized that the young man was the very person who had saved his life, the one he had searched everywhere for.

As the saying goes, one should repay a life-saving favor with one's own life.

Shao Jingyi packed his belongings that very night and knocked on the old hunter's door. Looking at the handsome young man, cool and aloof, Shao Jingyi blushed for the first time in his life. “Are you still looking for a live-in son-in-law?”

After they married, his husband hunted to support the family, while Shao Jingyi stayed home as his capable partner and tinkered with new inventions, starting a small business. He thought his husband was still too thin and needed to put on some more weight.

Just as he thought they would go on living like this, his husband suddenly disappeared.

Everyone told him his husband was dead, but he didn't believe them.

He searched everywhere, and everyone said he was crazy. In the end, all he found was a baby still in swaddling clothes, their child.

Holding the sleeping baby, Shao Jingyi hated his own helplessness for the first time.

He vowed to himself that he would never again let his husband and child become lambs for others to slaughter.

**

He had grown up in the secret guard camp, without parents or a name. After enduring countless trials, he became a secret guard with the codename Seventeen.

He was not the first Seventeen, and he would not be the last.

For a proper secret guard, loyalty was the highest principle, and the master's orders came before everything else. Their purpose was to become the sharpest blade in their master's hand. Nothing else mattered.

But after one mission, he could remember nothing.

He met someone who would buy him his favorite pea-flour cakes and look at him with heartfelt sincerity as he said he loved him.

That person gave him a name, taught him how to love and hate, how to feel anger and desire, and gave him a child.

But when the dream was over, he continued down the path he had always been meant to follow.

He lied, hiding that person's existence from his master. He thought they would never meet again in this life.

He never expected their reunion to come so suddenly, with himself becoming a bargaining chip used to control the other man.

For the first time, he disobeyed his master's orders. He wanted to lock that person away and face certain death alone. That person should rise to a high position, become a loyal official, and serve the people and the state.

He should not risk defying the whole world for his sake.

Theme: The night may be dark and cold, but dawn awaits those who keep going.