Summmary
Before he died, Shen Yin was an office drone with a resentment heavier than a vengeful spirit. After seventy-two hours of consecutive overtime, he finally achieved the βgloryβ of dropping dead from exhaustion.
He was in pain; he was bitter. If heβd known heβd kick the bucket so fast, he should have blown every cent of his savings before dying.
To his surprise, he opened his eyes only to find himself as a little brat, not even ten years old, who had just been bought by the Crown Princeβs Manor.
He initially assumed that entering the Manor meant heβd either become a guard or a eunuch. Instead, he ended up as a Shadow Guard. To this, Shen Yin felt completely indifferentβas long as his βequipmentβ stayed intact and he didnβt become a eunuch, it was all good.
He figured that after becoming Shadow One, his daily life would consist of running the occasional mission, managing the other guards, eating well, drinking tea, and sucking up to the Head Shadow Guard.
However, in the fifty-second year of the Chengzhou Era, the foreign kingdom of Chaodu sent envoys to arrange a marriage alliance. As Shadow One, Shen Yin was naturally ordered by the Head Guard to monitor the foreign delegation.
That was the moment everything started to go off the rails.
He discovered that the Crown Prince was sick. Truly, mentally ill. One second, the Prince would be hanging off a cliff, crying about how he wanted to die, how bitter his life was, and promising Shen Yin anything his heart desired if he saved him. The very next second, as soon as he was pulled back up, heβd order his men to beat Shen Yinβs ass black and blue.
