No Dragon-Slaying Protagonist Allowed to Woo the Delicate Cannon Fodder

Top's perspective:

Xie Jingjue, bound to a System for the Chosen One, ran off with the sickly, pampered young master Jiang Xubai, who had been planning to break off their engagement.

Xie Jingjue loved teasing the young master. He was delicate and soft, prone to bristling, but even the slightest grievance would make him sniffle and cry. When he glared through those misty, peach-blossom eyes, he looked more like he was pouting than angry.

The young master also never meant what he said. He'd cried as if his husband had died when he saw Xie Jingjue injured, yet still insisted, "I'm not worried about you! It's just what friends do!"

The System issued warnings frantically: [Jiang Xubai has a System of his own. He's devious and cunning. Host, beware of him stealing your fortune!]

The Chosen One looked down at the young master in his arms, who had kept him company all night and was now sleeping in a hazy daze.

Half asleep, the young master looped his arms around his neck, clung to him, and begged for a kiss, asking if his wound still hurt.

System: [Host, look. He's using a pity ploy. Isn't that despicable?]

The Chosen One looked from one side to the other, then couldn't help pinning the young master down and kissing him to his heart's content. Satisfied, he replied: [How could it be bitter? It's clearly sweet.]

The System was so exasperated it nearly laughed. It suddenly understood how a court official must feel when facing a foolish emperor who spends a fortune just to make his favorite concubine smile.

Until the young master died in front of the Chosen One, on the eve of the night he was to enter the Immortal Sect.

The System watched in panic as the Chosen One's eyes turned bloodshot. Amid a sea of blood, he quietly held the young master, who had long since drawn his last breath.

In the end, the Chosen One defied the story's plot, fell into demonic cultivation, and became a figure feared by the entire cultivation world.

Just then, the Chosen One caught a spy.

That face was identical to the young master's, now dead.

He held the man's chin, his eyes filled with a sickly yearning:

"You look so much like him."

"But what makes you worthy of wearing the same face as him?"

Bottom's perspective:

After a System suddenly told Jiang Xubai that he was actually a villainous cannon-fodder character, he set out on a path where he had to cuddle up to the Chosen One to gain more years of life.

To extend his lifespan, Jiang Xubai stayed almost constantly by the Chosen One's side, while also completing his cannon-fodder duties rather haphazardly with the System's help.

But why was the Chosen One, a cannon fodder like him, even better at doing bad things?

Jiang Xubai stared at the mess all over the ground in surprise. Then the Chosen One suddenly clutched his stomach and spat out blood. Jiang Xubai hurried over in a panic, only to be pulled into the other's arms.

"They were the ones who tried to kill me first." He'd only provoked them beforehand.

Unfortunately, Jiang Xubai was still discovered by the Heavenly Dao, and had no choice but to fake his death and leave.

When he returned, he had become an immortal-sect spy infiltrating the Chosen One's forces, and the Chosen One mistook him for a substitute.

The man even dragged him into daily retellings of the sweet love story between the Chosen One and his beloved, Jiang Xubai.

"Moved?"

"If you're that moved, write an 800-word response about what you heard for tomorrow."

Jiang Xubai: "..."

One-on-one, both sexually inexperienced.

A ruthless, scheming top who loves putting on an act in front of the young master x a spoiled but sunny, tsundere young master bottom

Theme: This is what love is.