Why Won't You Indulge Me, Chancellor?

The little beggar Huaitang had nothing to his name, until he unexpectedly gained the ability to reincarnate endlessly.

With his golden finger, after working hard through several lifetimes, he finally escaped poverty and the fate of being eaten alive amid the chaos of war.

He was granted a noble title and high office, and enjoyed boundless wealth.

Just as Huaitang was banging gongs and drums, preparing to throw a lavish banquet, marry a new wife, and turn to a fresh chapter in life

The Marquis of Yong's army came marching in.

The small city fell, and he was shot dead on the city wall without even getting a good look at his killer.

In the lifetimes that followed, whenever his life was at its most glorious, he would die at the hands of the Marquis of Yong.

Huaitang snapped, "Will this ever end?!"

*

No more noble titles, no more high offices.

After much soul-searching, Huaitang decided to get rid of the source of the instability once and for all

The late emperor's orphaned heir, Xiao Huaijin, the Marquis of Yong, a bloodthirsty killer who had conquered more than a dozen cities without batting an eye.

But it turned out this man had an even more powerful golden finger than he did.

Huaitang couldn't kill the adult Xiao Huaijin, and whenever he tried to kill Xiao Huaijin as a child, he died first.

He had no choice but to change tactics and join the Marquis of Yong's side early on.

Only for Xiao Huaijin to kill him again

Huaitang: "? Wait, you kill your own people too?"

Xiao Huaijin was nothing like his name suggested. He was petty, vindictive, and impossible to read. His subordinates could be punished at any moment, and nobody was exempt

except his father.

*

Huaitang had no choice but to change tactics once more.

From Xiao Huaijin's military strategist and confidant, he steadily climbed the ranks until he became his elder brother, his teacher, and his adoptive father.

Xiao Huaijin stopped killing him, but the look in his eyes grew stranger and stranger.

Huaitang had spent more than a dozen lifetimes dealing with him, and knew better than anyone how suspicious he was.

With the realm newly unified, Xiao Huaijin held enough power to determine who sat on the throne and who was deposed. It was only natural that he would be wary of Huaitang.

Huaitang knew how to read the room, and immediately resigned from office.

But on his way back to his hometown, he was assassinated.

Huaitang: "..."

*

Huaitang still wasn't ready to give up.

Xiao Huaijin always took the side of his own people, regardless of right or wrong. Huaitang would have to remain his teacher and adoptive father to stay alive, but this time he wouldn't need so much power.

A bond between them would be enough. He had never been that ambitious anyway.

So Huaitang rescued the boy from the ruins and spoke to the young Xiao Huaijin with earnest concern.

"No matter what happens, I only want you to be happy."

*

Then one day, Xiao Huaijin suddenly said to him, "If you want me to be happy, why won't you give in to me?"

Huaitang: "...?"

"Afterword"

Young Xiao Huaijin had always kept a secret, one nobody knew

Someone had come into his dreams and left seventeen marks behind.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. Brooding, unstable seme x pleasure-loving, saintly, naturally airheaded beauty uke.

[Synopsis screenshot archived on 2025.10.19]

Theme: No matter what hardships you face, never give up hope for life.