The Versatile Bodyguard

The Versatile Bodyguard is an urban novel by the web author Wan Yu Qianqiu, running to roughly 2.24 million Chinese characters and over 770 chapters; it is complete. The protagonist, Zhang Yi, is a son of a wealthy family who has lived among ordinary people for twenty years. After returning to the city, he takes a part-time job as bodyguard to a rich young lady. He had hoped merely to be an ordinary bodyguard with "meat to eat and money to spend," but is drawn into a vast conspiracy and then into an endless struggle for power. Relying on the internal martial arts and wide-ranging miscellaneous knowledge he has learned, Zhang Yi repeatedly clashes with underworld forces and business rivals while protecting his employer and carrying out bodyguard assignments. A nobody who emerged from Sichuan, he gradually turns the tables, crossing swords with underworld godfathers, financial magnates, and figures from every walk of life, carving his own path between schemes and open stratagems. Set against the backdrop of urban life and blending martial arts, business warfare, feuds among wealthy families, and romance, the book moves at a brisk pace with a dense supply of satisfying moments. It is a typical male-oriented urban wish-fulfillment novel, suited to readers who enjoy light reading and care about face-slapping reversals and the protagonist's growth.