The Fool Knows How to Flirt, and the Rugged Neighbor Can't Take It Anymore

Quiet, Taciturn Top x Not-Too-Bright Bottom

A big size difference, contrasting personalities, one-on-one, happy ending.

When Chu Xiaoran first met the live-in son-in-law who had moved in next door, he had no doubt that the idiot would dare touch a live three-phase wire.

And indeed, Jiang Chubai, who had been forced to switch marriages so his older brother could have a happy life, wasn't exactly sharp, though he wasn't quite an idiot either.

Not long after Jiang Chubai married a woman from the Chu family who was even more foolish than he was and was also paralyzed, she choked to death on an apricot because she couldn't resist eating it.

With no more use for him, Jiang Chubai became a thorn in Chu's mother's side, and his days were miserable as she made his life difficult at every turn.

Of course, Jiang Chubai wasn't someone who could be pushed around, either. He would secretly trip the old woman up, slipping a dead rat into her bedding one day, then sprinkling sand in her food the next.

Though neither of them ever came out ahead, he still found it satisfying, grinning from ear to ear and laughing like a fool.

Then one day, while he was up to no good, his every move fell under the watchful eye of his neighbor, Chu Xiaoran.

Jiang Chubai bared his teeth and threatened, "If you dare tell on me, I'll piss in your pot!"

Chu Xiaoran: ...

As time went by, the man next door, who wore a scowl all day yet kept his secrets, became someone Jiang Chubai could rely on. But he also became a knot he could never untangle in this lifetime, and a debt of affection he could never repay...

Jiang Chubai thought, if he couldn't repay it, then he'd spend his whole life trying.