Deranged, stubborn Second Prince × gentle, desireless young chancellor
May my days run out, so I may repay the kindness you showed me.
They met by chance, through one act of kindness. Back then, he was far beyond reach, yet the most important ray of light in that child's life. The child decided to catch up to him, all to repay the kindness he'd received. But fate had other plans. Years later, he had become Chancellor Liu, a powerful figure in the State of Song, while the other was no longer the Second Prince who had once been the most beloved of all. Born into the imperial family, he had no say in his own fate. Xiao Ling was no longer a happy, kind Second Prince. He was a demon who had crawled out of hell to claim the lives of those people. If that was the case, then I would pull you out of hell, even if we never met again in life...
What was the truth behind what happened back then? Whose fault was all of this? Amid the false affections of the palace, the schemes and betrayals of the court, and the mountains of corpses on the battlefield, Xiao Ling finally crushed it all. Then one day, he suddenly realized he was trapped in another lie, only this time, he was no longer the one who had been hurt.
"Yun'er... I was wrong. Please, answer me, won't you?" But no matter how desperately he called, the person in his arms only lay there quietly, as if merely asleep.
These relationships may seem entirely unrelated, but they are what brought these people's lives together and gave rise to this story.
It's angsty, extremely angsty, and that's the purpose of this book. It's a slow burn in the beginning, very slow, with the two main characters not meeting much, but later it's basically their story (it requires patience; those who dislike this should skip this, but sometimes I even wanted to jump straight into the angst O_o, sigh, just bear with it).