The Obsessive Prince’s Poor Little Canary

The groveling chase / Not your typical scumbag / Sweet and angsty / Devoted to each other / Happy ending

A ruthless, unrestrained prince ✘ a frail, lovesick, pitiful fool

Yu Beiyuan ✘ Bai Xiu

The Prince of Yu, based in Dongyuan, rules his territory as a warlord, commands a powerful army, and is at odds with the royal family. Cruel by nature, he especially enjoys torturing and slaughtering beautiful people. One day, someone sends him a celestial-looking beauty, said to be a little prince of the royal family who was lost among the common folk.

This exceptionally beautiful little prince is afraid of the dark, stutters, and is frail, foolish, gentle, and obedient. He likes Yu Beiyuan.

Yu Beiyuan likes beautiful people best, and wouldn't mind taking him as a consort.

When the little fool consort holds out half a steamed bun he picked up: “Bei... Beiyuan, eat...”

Yu Beiyuan pinches his cheek until it turns red.

When the little fool consort approaches with tear-filled, red-rimmed eyes: “Bei... Beiyuan, it's dark...”

Yu Beiyuan feeds him a poisonous bug.

When the little fool consort holds a flower and smiles sweetly: “Bei... Beiyuan, a gift...”

Yu Beiyuan cuts his Achilles tendons.

One day, the heartbroken little fool consort leaves Dongyuan.

The haughty Prince Yu is red-eyed. He rushes an army to the palace that very night to bring his beloved back, cherishing him with every fiber of his being and loving him with all his heart. But the little fool consort never smiles at him again.

The next time the little fool consort smiles at Yu Beiyuan, the imperial army is at the gates. He says, “Beiyuan, a gift.”

*The little prince is ill at first [physically], but recovers later.

*Yu Beiyuan is always ill [in the head], but a rogue can turn over a new leaf.

*There are misunderstandings! No angst! A mix of sweetness and angst!