The Beautiful Abandoned Heir Reduced to a Prisoner

[A beautiful convict who has all sorts of people utterly smitten, though they don't realize they love him: bitter love, a battlefield of passion, and exes begging for a second chance]

Xie Ling'an comes from Laoshan and is a convict. To find his older brother and climb to success, he latched onto an extremely powerful "connection": Immortal Lord Wei Lang.

He thought his life would take off and his road to success would open wide. Xie Ling'an was just getting ready to destroy everyone who had bullied him when he ended up being thrown in prison first.

Abandoned as a pawn by the person he trusted most, Wei Lang, and the revered master he admired most, Xie Ling'an learned from his pain and turned over a new leaf. One after another, he attached himself to the Lord of Laoshan, the young lord of the Han family, the Dao Lord of Kunlun, the chief disciple of Tianxuan, and a whole host of others.

There are benefactors everywhere in life. When it comes to connections, having many matters more than having the best.

He could also endure what ordinary people could not, and rekindle his relationship with Immortal Lord Wei Lang, turning a broken mirror into a whole one again. At the same time, he maintained relationships with both his former master and current master that were half sincere and half feigned, seemingly close yet ambiguous.

In short, he got tangled up in all sorts of messy relationships, and his conduct became a colorful mess.

From obeying the law to testing it in person, he had no bottom line left after ending up in prison anyway.

He couldn't give up the new, nor could he discard the old. Bigger was better, but he wouldn't let the younger ones go either. Among the heroes of the four realms and the peaks of the three clans, he would climb whoever he could, and at least make himself known to those he couldn't. He would keep climbing, one rung at a time.

He firmly believed that if he could attach himself to enough connections, some benefactor would surely help him when he faced a desperate fight for his life.

As for him and those lofty noble young masters and immortal lords, who would emerge victorious was still anyone's guess.

Who would end up a prisoner? Who would sit in the seat of honor?

Xie Ling'an, who would end up behind bars for life, went further and further down the road of misconduct:

From bribery and gift-giving to throwing himself into someone's arms, from deals in money and power to trading sex for influence, from a man of integrity to one who joined the corrupt, from enforcing the law impartially to stealing under his own watch.

Yet everyone still thought him pure and innocent, blameless and spotless, miserable and pitiable, forced into it all, with everyone else to blame.

One by one, they wanted to drag the "respectable man" into the mud, yet rescue the "fallen man" from it.

They wanted to be both his jailer and his savior, treating the incarceration of a prisoner as a heroic rescue of a beauty.

This time, he had both the will of Heaven and the hearts of men in his grasp.

Xie Ling'an understood that these noble young masters were fickle and merciless, and that they were all using him, with no genuine feelings involved. But it didn't matter, because he felt the same way about them.

There was just one thing he didn't understand. He and these people had worked together happily enough, each getting what they wanted. They treated him as a pawn, and he used them as stepping-stones. Things in this world were perfectly fair, so why did they hate him so much?

Xie Ling'an used himself as bait and risked his life to enter the game, maneuvering among wolves and tigers as he tried to make one predator devour another. He never thought it was dirty, until he saw the snow of Kunlun.

He walked alone through the long night, with all the ghosts silenced and demons and monsters filling his sight. He did not even feel the darkness, until he saw the bright moon above Kunlun's peak.

When will the bright moon shine on my return?

That day, everyone in Penglai watched their brightest pearl of the Eastern Sea break through layer upon layer of restraints and run without looking back toward Yuxi of Kunlun.

Yuxi, the Dao Lord of Kunlun, caught Penglai's pearl securely and took the moon from their hearts.

How many tricks must I use to keep you here?

How much love must I offer to ask you to stay?

[Reading Guide]

A handsome, upright, noble gentleman of an attack x a pretty, guileless receiver who will do anything to climb higher.

1. The receiver has arrows pointing to him from every direction. All sorts of people love him, hate him, and love and hate him at once, but he will only return a genuine arrow to the main love interest.

2. Many, many people will like the receiver. This novel only promises that the suspected love interests are pure in body and mind. Ling'an and Yuxi are each other's firsts, and both are virgins.

But Ling'an will put on an act with other people and get tangled up with them.

3. The others will go crazy, and every scummy love interest will have to beg for a second chance.

Watch the sweet romance between the main couple carve out its own path through the bitter passion of all the other scummy love interests.

4. The main love interest appears late. The two men who are supposedly his "ex-husbands" will fight, compete, and go mad, with plenty of scheming male-rival antics.

5. Almost everyone who likes Ling'an is both his rival in love and political enemy. They will do everything they can to crush each other, while Ling'an usually sits back and watches from safety. Occasionally, he gets his shoes wet by the river or stumbles into a setback, but it's no big deal.

He is both a prisoner and a person of honor.

Theme: Even in the most desperate situation, there is still a sliver of hope. Never give up lightly.