[Ancient-era ABO slice of life] [A × O, equally matched]
In his previous life, Xin Buyue worked diligently as a mercenary and faithfully completed his missions. Then he ran into his nemesis and lost the mission first, then his heart.
After transmigrating, he fought back against the royal family’s arranged marriage, but he was powerless to stop it. Just as he resigned himself to his fate, someone suddenly swept him away as a bridegroom: first he lost his dignity, then his heart.
Xin Buyue: You think I won’t recognize you just because you’re wearing a secret identity?
Qi Shaoyuan: We’re practically married already. Can’t we talk this out?
Xin Buyue raised his riding crop. “Was that damn bastard who shot me through the heart in my last life you? Did you cause me to transmigrate, too? Speak!”
Qi Shaoyuan covered his head and wailed in protest. “We’ll never part, in life or death. We’re going to be the perfect couple! Keeping you by my side is the least I can do!”
Xin Buyue: Keep your damned self by my side! In my last life, I only saw you as my nemesis. Who said I wanted to... Damn it! How did I fall for a guy like this?!
Xin Buyue grew up being abandoned again and again, an “emotional void” willing to lose himself in a passing infatuation, but contemptuous of so-called eternal love.
His former admirers: Xin has no heart.
Qi Shaoyuan scoffed. “You’re the ones who weren’t good enough.”
Crossing time and space, he trapped Xin Buyue in a carefully planned deception.
He laid bare his possessiveness and offered up everything he had.
He made Xin Buyue experience what it was like to be cherished, and grow accustomed to the safety of being protected.
When Xin Buyue eventually learned the truth: Weren’t you afraid I’d hate you?
Qi Shaoyuan handed him a knife. “Even if you’re a ghost, I’ll love you. I can live with that, too.”
Xin Buyue snatched up the sheath and beat him with it. “Is there something wrong with your head?! Are you out of your mind?!”
Awesome! What a great setting! I love it so much!