Reduced to the Shadow Guard’s Forbidden Pet: A Se…

My name is Jiang Yuyao. I was once a noble lady of a military family, renowned throughout the imperial capital. After an assassination attempt, I became a "dead woman" in name. Only he—Shen Muhan, my former shadow guard—stole me away from that mountain of corpses and sea of blood on that rainy night. Now we live under false names, hidden away in a wooden cabin in a remote border town. He is no longer the shadow guarding me in secret, and I am no longer the aristocratic young lady bound by rigid decorum. These past few days, I’ve felt spying eyes lurking in the darkness. Fear and dependence have twisted my longing for him into a scorching possessiveness. In the depths of those eyes, so long accustomed to killing and cold detachment, I see the same madness—something held back for far too long...