The Pageboy

Your Highness, I only want to be a book boy.

But you want me as your bedmate.

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On his way to the capital for the imperial exam, carrying the hopes of his entire village, Su Yao rescued a half-dead general. He planned to get some money and run, but it turned out the man had not a single coin to his name!

So Su Yao left him in the wilderness and ran off by himself.

After finally making it to the capital, Su Yao ran out of travel money. Just as he was despairing and preparing to eat the pages of his books, he saw a notice that the Prince's estate was recruiting a book boy.

The requirements were as follows:

1. Be greedy for money and have rescued someone.

2. Be neither too clever nor too stupid, know how to flatter, and be able to win the young lord's favor.

3. Preferably be from out of town and have come to the capital to take the imperial exam.

4. Be under eighteen and unmarried.

Su Yao gazed longingly at the notice. Isn't that me!

Could it be... the heavens have finally noticed me, a kind-hearted young man who may be a little dumb, a little weak, and a little unlucky, but is hardworking and smooth-talking!

When he arrived at the Prince's estate, Su Yao sat in the exam room, ready to show off his skills. Then he suddenly realized that the examiner seemed to be the same penniless general he'd abandoned on the road!

Su Yao: "..."

When the exam papers were collected, the "examiner" stopped Su Yao. "My estate isn't hiring a book boy. We're hiring a bedmate. Room and board included, and one gold ingot a month. Interested?"

Su Yao: "..."

Even though I'm broke, do I look like the kind of person who'd sell his looks for money!

Su Yao firmly refused.

The "examiner" let him go, then had a steward retrieve Su Yao's hopelessly muddled exam paper and write the word "Accepted" on it in red ink.

Steward: "Your Highness, this young man doesn't look very clever, and he seems to have a temper. He clearly isn't the best candidate."

Murong Xuanyi: You don't understand the saying about making a whole plate of dumplings just for a saucer of vinegar, do you? I want him to repay a debt!

It looks like he's doing it to repay a debt, but really it's love at first sight!

Do you understand love at first sight?

Su Yao × Murong Xuanyi

A scheming, dark-hearted, lovesick dog of a young lord, an MVP at political maneuvering but a romantic at heart, gong × a talkative, pretty shou who wanted to be a book boy but became a bedmate

Short story, 1v1, both virgins.

Delicious in every way.

Theme: Just for love!