I Heard I Can Only Live to 18

The original title, "The Heir Never Wants to Go Out," kept getting blocked, so I changed the name. This does not affect the story.

In the novel "[Interstellar] Wan Jue," the protagonist is a pitiful young man from a prominent family on a frontier planet. The heir recommends him for a place at the military academy on the capital planet.

At the academy, the pitiful young man awakens only an N-rank fantasy-type ability.

But with the heir's encouragement and help, he keeps growing and evolving, eventually raising his ability to SS rank. Along the way, he encounters five people: aloof, gentle, passionate, fickle, and domineering.

Following the usual story, the pitiful young man should find his destined partner, and the two should join hands to achieve greatness.

However, the author loves tragic endings, so...

All six of them, including the pitiful young man, meet miserable ends: starting with the aloof heir, they face sealing, betrayal, exile, the loss of their abilities, death in battle, and stabilizing space, never to be reincarnated.

And Bai He is unlucky enough to become that aloof heir, sealed inside a ten-thousand-year ice crystal.

Bai He knows nothing of the original story's details, only how it ends. Already lazy enough to be terminally afflicted with laziness, he becomes even lazier once he learns his fate. After dutifully sending the pitiful young man to the capital planet, he shuts himself away every day, saying he'll practice self-sealing first, so that when he's sealed later, he can sit tight for a century or two, then quietly sneak out and explore this unfamiliar world.

But someone keeps trying to coax him out of his "shell."

Bai He: No, you don't.

Someone: Yes, I do.

Theme: How to avoid a total party wipe