Reborn as the Fan-Favorite Foil: The World-Weary Crown Prince Gives Up and Coasts

Dual male leads + palace intrigue and nobility + both reborn + an unconventional forced romance + equally strong leads

Li Yuanzhao couldn't understand it. He had always followed the rules, worked himself to the bone, and never harmed anyone. So why had he ended up abandoned by everyone, with all the world wanting him dead?

Only after he died did he learn that he was actually a disposable foil in a book, a character designed to make the universally adored protagonist shine. It had all been fated.

How laughable. How absurd!

After living again, Li Yuanzhao found it all utterly pointless.

If he couldn't escape the cage painted into existence by the author, why bring him back at all?

It was all fake.

Every person and thing was nothing but a fictional creation improvised by the writer.

What difference did it make whether he lived or died?

Unwilling to repeat the exhausting life he'd led in his previous one, Li Yuanzhao gave up and decided to eat, sleep, and wait for death.

But then Pei Qingyuan appeared, throwing everything off.

The man was like a lunatic. He was either pushing Li Yuanzhao to seize the throne or on his way to do so, constantly talking about restoring the rightful line.

Li Yuanzhao had thought he was a man of principle, but it turned out he was a shameless pervert. Under the pretense of restoring the rightful line, he would randomly go into different personalities and flirt with him.

From then on, Li Yuanzhao, a world-weary slacker who occasionally flew into a rage, made a daily habit of blowing up at him.

“Pei Qingyuan, how dare you!”

“You Pei, get out if you pull that perverted crap again!”

“Pei Qingyuan, I'll kill you!”

With someone gripping his neck, the other man remained calm. “Your Highness, could you move back a little?”

Li Yuanzhao: Aaaaaah!