After I Used and Abandoned My Savior

Cheng Ning woke up in a wooden cabin with no memory. His delicate body, pampered by gold, silver, and jade, was covered in frightening purple bruises. Luckily, the hunter who had found him was kind and always willing to look after him.

"I've forgotten my name. How about I take your surname?"

The person leaning against the bed had long black hair falling over his shoulders. His face was pale, but his stunning beauty was impossible to conceal. Looking over the tall, taciturn hunter beside the bed, he pursed his lips and spoke as if teasing or feigning annoyance. "Then I'll be Cheng Ning. What do you think?"

Cheng Yuan pressed his lips together, his dark eyes fixed on the man deliberately teasing him. After a moment, he finally said, "As you wish."

Cheng Ning thought Cheng Yuan was amusing. The man was clearly interested in him, yet whenever Cheng Ning got a little closer, he would act as if he couldn't wait to run away.

Cheng Ning found it fun to tease him. Now and then, he'd have the man warm his hands and feet, or deliberately lean close to his ear and say things like, "If I were a woman, I'd marry a man like you." Once he had made the man's ears turn red, he would abruptly pull away.

One day, people from the capital came looking for him. As Cheng Ning wondered what to do with Cheng Yuan, he happened to hear a matchmaker, who had come to arrange a marriage, earnestly advising the taciturn hunter: "You're not young anymore. It's time to settle down."

Right. It was time for Cheng Yuan to get married, too.

He was only a hunter from some impoverished backwater. There was no reason to feel reluctant. Xiao Junyan, the Prince of Ning'an, had to return to the capital.

*

Two years later, rumors spread throughout the capital that the Prince of Ning'an's residence was recruiting male favorites.

A man sat on a carved red sandalwood throne. He wore a gold-inlaid jade crown set with amethysts and deer-hide boots. His jade ornaments chimed softly. His brocade finery could not outshine his peerless, elegant beauty.

Xiao Junyan lifted his eyelids slightly and let his gaze drift over the men who had come to offer themselves as his "favorites." He was about to casually choose two when a servant rushed in with a report:

"Your Highness, the King of the Southwest has come to pay his respects."

The King of the Southwest?

Xiao Junyan thought for a moment, then remembered the man. He had heard that the king had arrived in the capital a few days ago to discuss military affairs with the emperor.

Before he could decide whether to meet him, unhurried footsteps sounded outside. Xiao Junyan frowned slightly, ready to take offense, but stopped when he saw the person outside.

The man wore lavish clothes, his features sharp. He looked nothing like the country bumpkin he had once been. Parting his thin lips, he spoke calmly:

"I heard that the Prince of Xiao intends to choose male favorites. I came only to ask: do you still remember the husband you left behind in that mountain hut?"

Xiao Junyan: ?

When had he gotten a husband? Why didn't he know about it?

[Alluring, aristocratic bottom * obsessive mad-dog top]

One-on-one, both virgins

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