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A ditzy bottom and a relatively normal psycho top
Wu Youyu is a shadow guard who spends every day lounging on the rafters, putting off every assignment until the very last second.
So this time, his boss gives him a simple job: keep an eye on the twelve-year-old prince Shen Yuance, born to a concubine and neglected by the emperor.
Wu Youyu: “OvO”
What a perfect job for slacking off.
Sure enough, three taels a month means three-taels-a-month effort.
Perched on the rafters, he watches the illegitimate prince Shen Yuance live an even worse life than the noble consort's puppy, and come perilously close to being tortured to death!
Wait...
If the prince dies that soon, won't I get a new assignment right away?
Work fast and you just get more work!!!
And so...
Shen Yuance is shoved into a deep pit, where it's pitch-black. He looks up and spots a furtive figure, who tosses something down!
He thinks the person is trying to humiliate and torment him, and expects a rock to come flying down.
Instead... a rice ball drops from the sky.
Wu Youyu tosses the little prince three rice balls. Birds snatch two of them, so he grits his teeth.
“Heave-ho!” He throws down a zongzi!
Rise again, my Qu Yuan!
When Shen Yuance is confined, Wu Youyu washes his hands, makes soup, and secretly tosses food down to him.
But... it's an abomination of a meal...
When Shen Yuance falls ill, Wu Youyu pours medicine down the unconscious boy's throat.
All kinds of poisons, fighting poison with poison.
When Shen Yuance can't sleep, Wu Youyu even tells him bedtime stories: “Once upon a time, there was a corrupt official. He died, and someone pulled out his intestines and wrapped them around his neck. His eyes bulged out, and his eyeballs fell to the ground...”
Shen Yuance: “...”
He is being very well looked after. At least... he's still alive.
Even though he has never seen the other's face,
Even though the other is clumsy,
Shen Yuance shamefully falls in love with him.
When Shen Yuance turns sixteen, Wu Youyu's assignment changes: kill Shen Yuance!
Wu Youyu thinks it over and over: he needs his master's antidote every month, or he'll die.
Only one of him and Shen Yuance can survive!
So he disappears without a trace.
Shen Yuance goes mad.
He stages a coup and slaughters his way through the court, searching for the other again and again. Faceless portraits cover the palace, while missing-person notices cover the city. Officials who keep shadow guards are dragged away and tortured, and palace servants who don't are hauled in for questioning.
Wu Youyu escapes and completely rids himself of the poison. He spends his days carefree, renting a small house far from the capital, where the emperor's reach is short.
One day,
he pushes open the door with a “squeak.”
Candlelight flickers inside.
Shen Yuance, who should be in the capital, sits at the table, his eyes dark and his white robes making him look like a widower. “I should have tied you to the bed, so you could do nothing but look at me. Isn't that right?”
During the time Wu Youyu was gone, Shen Yuance had grown taller than him. He is so strong that Wu Youyu can't even struggle before being thrown onto the bed.
With a rip, Wu Youyu's clothes are torn open in a feverish hurry. Shen Yuance parts his legs and slowly moves a hand to his heart. His palm rests against the warm skin as he strokes it obsessively.
“Doesn't your heart hurt?”
He thinks,
Wu Youyu has no heart.
He must bind him,
so Wu Youyu can only look at him,
day and night, until death!
Wu Youyu looks down at the hand covering his chest, a little confused. After a moment's hesitation, he says softly, “It doesn't hurt. Your hand is too cold. I think... I'm a little chilly. ( ⩌ - ⩌ )”
Theme: That's life.
