“There’s nothing wrong with being a guard.” - The male lead is a liar.

Landowner Family's Little Guard is a short story set in rural ancient China and is about a young hunter, who caught the local landowner’s eye. After a desperate fight against a tiger, the severely injured hunter ends up owing the landowner a huge dept.

In the beginning, the story is narrated similar to a fable, but switches to the potagonist's pov about half-way into the story. This sets up an interesting discreptancy between the public's view of the... more>> landowner and hunter, and their private affairs not known to anyone else. <<less