The Delicate, Sickly Beauty Stays Alive by Cuddling

[Fragile, delicate, universally adored bottom vs. seemingly cold but actually gentle, devoted top]

Next up: Cold and Aloof Heartthrob Forced to Be Debauched [Quick Transmigration]. The blurb is at the bottom~

Xiao Xuechi was the emperor’s most beloved younger brother, a sickly beauty with fair skin and delicate features, frail and soft-bodied. Rumor had it he wouldn’t live past twenty.

The whole capital was betting on how many days the pampered young prince would last in the hands of General Xie Wei, a fearsome man who supposedly hated the imperial family to the bone.

On the first day, Xie Wei invited him to stay at the General’s Manor.

On the second day, Xie Wei personally prepared medicinal dishes for him.

On the third day... Xie Wei knelt on one knee beside his bed, cradling his jade-white foot in his palm as he carefully put on his silk sock.

The young prince curled his toes bashfully and murmured, “It tickles...”

The fearsome general paused, then bent down and placed the lightest kiss on his ankle. “This servant knows his mistake.”

The subordinates secretly watching: ??? General, what happened to that blood feud you promised us?!

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Xiao Xuechi had a little secret: he was bound to a cuddling-to-extend-his-life System.

The System said that getting close to a few people with strong fortune would prolong his life.

To stay alive, the young prince began working hard at “socializing.”

The gentle, refined top scholar said he was cold-natured, then fed him medicine mouth-to-mouth, kissing him until his lips were swollen and red and he was gasping for breath.

The proud physician said he needed to draw out poison, then bent over to suck the wound on his fingertip.

Even the otherworldly Imperial Preceptor would gently kiss away the tears at the corner of his eyes while “treating” him, softly coaxing, “Your Highness, this will help you recover faster.”

The young prince was kissed into a daze and thought: Everyone is so warmhearted!

That is, until he recovered and wanted to go home.

The doors were locked, and the windows sealed shut.

The men who had once indulged his every whim shed their gentle masks, their eyes burning with frightening intensity.

“Your Highness can’t just flirt with us and run off. What kind of sense does that make?”

Only then did Xiao Xuechi finally realize what was happening and start trembling.

It turned out that what everyone meant by cuddling wasn’t quite what he had in mind.

Reading Guide:

1. A melodramatic, universally adored feel-good fantasy. All the tops are paragons of virtue.

2. The bottom flirts without realizing it, and takes a very, very long time to return anyone’s feelings.

3. Happy ending.

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[Cold, naive, universally adored bottom x obsessive, stalkerish top who is split into multiple selves]

Wen Zhao was bound to a debauched-villain System.

The System said, “You have to play a depraved bad boy! Make everyone despise you!”

But the naturally aloof youth couldn’t force a flattering smile no matter what.

The System sighed. “Fine.”

The debauched persona couldn’t be changed.

So he was set up as a cold, haughty young master who discovered the pleasures of sex after an unexpected first experience; a money-grubbing flirt who hated strangers but seduced people for their cash; a ruthless heartbreaker who used people and tossed them aside in public, yet a helpless, inexperienced young mother caring for a child in private...

Luckily, he had been born with a beautiful face. Even with a cold expression, plenty of people took the bait.

But Wen Zhao gradually realized that something was wrong.

His underwear kept mysteriously disappearing, strange red marks kept appearing on his body, and the plot was taking increasingly bizarre turns.

Then one late night, he pretended to be asleep. Several hot breaths drew near his skin in the darkness.

Those people traced his features reverently with their fingertips as they whispered:

“He’s still young and doesn’t understand love, so that’s why he says such hurtful things.”

“It’s all right... We can teach him.”

① Noble Academy:

Wen Zhao was at the very top of the noble academy’s hierarchy, an ice-cold, arrogant heir who never took anyone else seriously.

After his coming-of-age banquet, the young master changed.

He still looked beautiful and frosty, but whenever anyone came near, his cheeks flushed abnormally and he pressed his legs together.

He found a new way to humiliate people, ordering different men to spend the night in his luxurious penthouse suite.

The commoners and nobles who hated him seemed to have lost their minds, lining up to offer themselves to him.

② Interstellar World:

Everyone said the Marshal’s son had been bewitched by a delicate, dependent youth. But his methods were so clumsy that it was obvious he was after wealth and power.

What a fool, the Marshal thought.

If the boy wanted an inheritance, couldn’t his father give him even more?

So, after his son left home, he gripped the youth’s slender, pale wrist and forcibly signed the marriage contract, stroke by stroke.

Unfortunately, the Marshal didn’t get to enjoy him for long.

An accident left the vast family fortune in the youth’s name.

His former colleagues crowded into the memorial hall and murmured to the composed young man beneath the portrait:

“Madam is still so young... She shouldn’t have to live like a widow.”

“We’re younger than him, and we know better how to take care of you.”

They surrounded the cool, pale young widow, speaking words of concern, but their eyes clung to his fair skin like hungry wolves.

③ Infinite Game:

Wen Zhao was a notorious, toxic player who used the pig-farming strategy, specializing in emotional scams. Everyone who heard his name hated him so much their teeth ached.

But when the System glitched, people finally discovered the truth.

Behind that ruthless, cold-hearted, powerful man stood a flustered youth with a blushing face, frozen in place. He was even holding a sleeping child in his arms.

One man after another came looking for him.

Some wanted to raise another man’s child, some claimed to be the kid’s father, and some even called him Mom.

Reading Guide:

1. A melodramatic, universally adored feel-good fantasy. All the tops are paragons of virtue. In the second world, the top’s son is created purely through technology. In the third world, the child is a transformation of the System.

2. The tops really are creepy, sick, twisted stalkers. The kind who lick your hand after you slap them.

3. The small worlds are just code until the protagonist arrives and fills them in. There is no “original host.”

Theme: Grow through adversity