Admiring Beauties by Lanternlight, Tipsy

★ Dashing Thief VS Beautiful Courtesan ★ (Both the top and the bottom are beauties)

Song Shijing is a notorious bandit who is good for little besides eating, and a master of disguises and deceit.

Then one day, fortune smiles on him, and he has a brief tryst with the famous courtesan Hua Rong.

The man is certainly handsome, but he's so much trouble, and he just won't go away.

With a pack of enemies hot on his heels, determined to hunt him down, Song Shijing can think only of escaping.

"Hmm? You can have this guy."

Eight years ago, people said that Duan Jing, the youngest son of the Duan family, whose patriarch was the martial arts alliance leader in Quxi, Yuzhou, was a martial arts prodigy. At fourteen, he created the Flying Flower Sword Art himself, and his Falling Blossom Sword shocked the world.

Raised in luxury from childhood, he was proud and arrogant, haughty and unruly. He possessed the supreme internal cultivation manual, the Nine Luminaries Palace, and looked down on everyone.

He was like the unreachable sun in the sky, upright and unyielding.

The wicked feared and dreaded him, hating him with all their hearts and wishing only to kill him.

Back then, the entire martial world was full of stories about him.

Until the Duan family was wiped out.

Duan Jing was the only survivor. The meridians in his right hand were completely severed, and he was gravely injured.

After that, all trace of him vanished from the martial world.

Eight years later, all the great clans want to kill the notorious bandit Song Shijing, consumed with resentment and desperate to take their revenge.

The great clans: "You're telling me this thing is the prodigy Duan Jing, the youngest son of the martial arts alliance leader?"

"Draw your blade!"

Only Hua Rong feels sorry for him. "What on earth happened to you all these years?"

Song Shijing: "..."

Song Shijing: "Don't ask. I've always had a rotten life."

Content warning: This is very old-school! Very old-school!! Very old-school!!!!! I'm saying it three times because it's important!

Short version:

★ Proud and unruly, living as if each day were his last, indifferent to fame and fortune, beautiful but tragic bottom ★ VS ★ Crazy, sincere, and pretends to be a scheming, devoted top ★

In this vast martial world, wherever your heart yearns for is home.

Hua Rong: "The feelings I had as a boy carried me through the eight hardest years of my life."

Song Shijing: "Worse than dying is living a life worse than death."

Please add my upcoming work, "The Dragon Lord Just Wants to Lie Flat," to your favorites~

Synopsis:

Zhu Qingxian is the last Candle Dragon in the cultivation world.

Unfortunately, his cultivation went awry, and a heavenly thunderbolt turned him into a little green dragon. He barely clung to life before falling into a deep sleep.

When the Candle Dragon wakes again, he secretly swears to himself:

If devoting myself to cultivation leads to such a miserable fate, I might as well lie flat, eat my fill, and wait to die!

Who could have guessed that the cultivation world would have changed beyond recognition during all those years he slept?

No one in the Nine Provinces has ascended in a thousand years. They say the Heavenly Dao is incomplete, and the tribulation stage is the limit for cultivators.

But if they find a true dragon and obtain its bones, they can build a path to the heavens!

Candle Dragon: ...My life is in danger!

The green dragon trembles with fear, shedding his dragon bones, scales, and breath to take human form and walk among mortals.

To save his dragon life, he infiltrates a cultivation sect to gather information.

Then he hears: "There are no true dragons left in this world. Ascension is impossible!"

Candle Dragon is overjoyed: ...I can go back to lying flat!

Unfortunately, the sect he joins is far too diligent. Every time he lies down, his nominal senior brother hauls him up and forces him to cultivate!

Candle Dragon: How infuriating! This Dragon Lord quits! Are they going to let me lie flat or not?

Just as a secret realm opens, Candle Dragon sneaks along behind his senior brother, planning to catch him off guard and eat him.

But when danger arrives, his senior brother actually shields Candle Dragon with his own body.

Candle Dragon: ...Why do I feel a little touched?

After they return, the Candle Dragon can't stop thinking about it, so he sneaks into his senior brother's room at night.

The refined gentleman, always as bright and serene as an immortal, takes out a gleaming dragon scale and gazes at him intently. "What is this?"

Candle Dragon, feeling guilty: "...Um... a token of my love for you."

Synopsis finalized on: 2024.12.1

Core theme: Even when faced with setbacks, keep moving forward without hesitation!