The World's Unluckiest Person

Arrogant, world-weary-looking top x aloof, distant, humane beauty bottom

Also known as Butterfly Dry Bones

On the day he came of age, Jiang Die, a student taking the gaokao as an adult, received an admission letter from a school for people with supernatural abilities.

Jiang Die, who had no abilities, was struck dumb with shock. What about his university admission letter?

All he wanted was to live an ordinary life, quietly growing old and dying. But if fate insisted on making things difficult for him, he wasn't about to be a coward.

Only...

Why had the storm come so quickly? Was it normal to get caught up in an anomaly so soon?!

A ridiculously handsome man who radiated an air of nobility was swept into it with him.

The handsome man kept staring at Jiang Die's chest and sneering, for reasons unknown.

After the chaos, a suspicious group claiming to be from the Special Affairs Bureau came to take Jiang Die away.

Jiang Die instinctively resisted. His gut told him he couldn't go, or things would definitely get worse.

He was just wondering how to escape when he saw the handsome man smile ominously. "You're taking my fiancee away?"

Jiang Die: ?

He wasn't. He didn't have a fiance. Where had this out-of-the-blue arranged marriage come from, and who was trying to ruin his life?

Determined to find out what had brought all this about, he set off on a journey.

And for some reason, people along the way kept telling him that the hope of all humanity rested on his shoulders!

Him: ...I'm really not the savior.

He was the unluckiest person in the world, and his fiance was the world's second unluckiest.

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When Xiang Qianzhi received the message telling him to pick up his fiancee, he scoffed at the idea of an arranged marriage.

When he recognized his fiancee by a ring, he admitted that Jiang Die was somewhat attractive, but still opposed the arranged marriage with every fiber of his being.

But when a certain anomaly forced him to kiss his fiancee, Xiang Qianzhi enjoyed it so much that he was both amused and annoyed.

How could he hate him so much after their very first meeting? He'd thought he was falling for him.

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Life and death are separated by a single moment, yet the soul does not perish.

Countless butterflies beat their wings and descend, drinking blood and devouring flesh until only bones remain.

How long will these Blood-Ripple Swallowtail Butterflies stay?

As long as his soul endures, they will never disappear, until a new turn of events seals everything away.

Where it begins, where it ends.

*Please note:

1. The bottom's real name is Fang Die, and he does have supernatural abilities.

2. A bickering couple who are sweet on each other, in the best sense, with no irony intended.

Arrogant, world-weary-looking top x aloof, distant beauty bottom

3. The couple are forever together: no breakup, no role reversal, no switching sides. They are bound by fate.

4. The initial inspiration came from a short popular-science piece about Blood-Ripple Swallowtail Butterflies. The worldbuilding is meant to satisfy my chuuni fantasies, though it may not be all that thrilling. The ending is bittersweet.

Theme: Everything happens for the best.