The Cannon Fodder Just Wants to Get Rich

When Jiang Yuxing was eighteen, the old emperor chose him for his good looks and gentle nature, and betrothed him to the imperial crown prince as the empire's crown princess. Only after the wedding did he learn that he had become a sacrificial pawn in an unrequited love that was going nowhere. The crown prince had a beloved white moonlight, so on their wedding day he not only skipped their wedding night, but never set foot in Jiang Yuxing's room again after they married... But who the hell cares! Looking at the monthly balance of hundreds of thousands of purple crystal coins pouring into his account as compensation, Jiang Yuxing laughed so hard he rolled around on the bed, his face stiff from holding it in. Under the cold moonlight, the crown prince looked at him with a harsh expression. "You're wonderful, but you're not him." Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. "Give up. I'll never fall in love with you." Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. "Here's the divorce agreement. Sign it when this campaign is over." Huh? "I'll give you thirty million purple crystal coins as compensation. Though you probably don't need it..." No, I need it like hell. Jiang Yuxing signed the agreement in a flurry, tears in his eyes. "So, will the money hit my account tonight?" A year later. When he heard that the crown prince's beloved white moonlight was about to return home, the crown prince excitedly discussed publicly announcing the end of their engagement with Jiang Yuxing. On the day of the press conference, Jiang Yuxing disappeared from the imperial capital without a trace. Not long afterward, a notorious space pirate appeared on the planet NY. Cunning and astonishingly powerful, he repeatedly beat back every elite force the empire sent to capture him. When the crown prince, refusing to give up, traveled to the federation for negotiations, his ship passed by planet NY and was hijacked. Seeing the space pirate before him, whose bold features were utterly unlike the delicate, dependent image he used to have, the crown prince's eyes widened in shock. "Leaving me hurt you that much? You even let yourself fall this far?" "It was pretty painful," Jiang Yuxing said, resting his chin on one hand as he assessed the crown prince's worth. "So your ransom's going up." Just as the crown prince reached out to see if Jiang Yuxing was really the person he remembered, the man in a trench coat beside the pirate stepped forward and grabbed his wrist. "Don't touch him." That voice... It was the white moonlight! The crown prince's eyes went wide. "Oh, I forgot to mention." Jiang Yuxing nodded and leaned back into the man's arms, grinning with brazen abandon. "We're together now." The tags are mislabeled. I'll fix them when I start posting, mwah. Theme: Even a sacrificial pawn can be the protagonist