Can't I Be the Bottom for Once?

The carefree, flirtatious flower thief top VS the peerless martial artist, stern and domineering prince with severe cleanliness issues bottom

One is a notorious flower thief who claims to target only the unfaithful. The other is a no-nonsense prince who won't let anyone near him and has severe cleanliness issues. They had nothing to do with each other, but a twist of fate turned them into a flower thief and his victim.

After suffering a terrible humiliation, Nangong Chen searches high and low for Hua Yun. Yet after encounter upon encounter, not only does he fail to kill him, he also develops feelings for him that are anything but ordinary.

But when the stern prince lowers himself to make the first move, the flower thief who was once so skilled at seduction loses his nerve.

When their positions are reversed and the pursuer becomes the pursued, what sparks will fly between them?

Nangong Chen: Since you've taken this prince's flower, you'll have to leave your heart behind, too.

This is a story about a bottom who doesn't act like one giving up on turning the tables, and a bottom doing everything he can to get the top to take him.

Cheesy little skit:

Nangong Chen: "A Yun, you have two choices tonight: either get into my bed, or I get into yours. Which will it be?"

Hua Yun: "Your Highness, I, Hua, like sleeping in trees."

Nangong Chen: "..."

There are sweet and angsty moments, but overall, this is a sweet story.

Blurb for the new novel, The Fake Sleeves-Only Prince's Long Road to Winning His Wife Back

Sikong Yao, the Seventh Prince of the Great Xing Kingdom, was ambushed and fell into a coma. The Imperial Physician concluded that he would never wake up.

His mother, Consort Dowager Wei, knew her son had never officially married. Not wanting to arrange a ghost marriage for him, she hurried to find him a princess consort while he still had a breath left in him.

Yan Nian Er, the legitimate daughter abandoned years ago by the current chancellor, was willing to marry into the prince's household to save her mother.

Only after entering the household did she learn that she would not only be a widow in all but name, but would also have to care for Sikong Yao, who had completely lost consciousness and could not move at all.

From feeding him water and meals, to wiping him down and massaging him, and then...

Thinking of him as nothing more than an unconscious patient, Yan Nian Er suppressed her discomfort and dutifully did everything required of her.

What she didn't know was that Sikong Yao only seemed unconscious. His body couldn't move, but he could hear, smell, feel, and sense everything else.

And then a certain prince went berserk.

"Hey! You shameless woman, where are you touching?"

"You dare take off this prince's clothes? You're asking to die!"

"What, my trousers? Stop right there!"

Alas, though he cursed her thousands of times in his heart, his body remained completely motionless.

Later, Sikong Yao finally woke up, only to discover that Yan Nian Er had been dismissed by Consort Dowager Wei.

Sikong Yao: "She dismissed my princess consort without me even knowing what she looks like? Outrageous!"

Later still, Sikong Yao finally brought Yan Nian Er back to the prince's household.

Consort Dowager Wei: "Nian Er, if you can cure A Yao of his aversion to women, I'll let you leave."

Consort Dowager Wei: "Nian Er, have you and A Yao... consummated your marriage?"

Yan Nian Er shook her head.

Consort Dowager Wei: "Then he's still not cured."

Meanwhile, when the person he loves willingly starts undressing in front of him, a certain prince worries that if his "condition" is cured, Yan Nian Er will leave. So all he can do is quietly take cold baths.

Note: The male lead is scheming, domineering, and a little roguish. The female lead is cool-tempered and clever, though a little slow to catch on when it comes to romance.

Theme: Fated lives intertwined, souls redeeming one another.