How to Pamper a Sickly Wife

[This story has been revised. Stolen versions are incomplete, and I take no responsibility for pirated copies.] To pay off her father's gambling debts, Lin Shu was sold to a male brothel. On his first day receiving guests, he caught the eye of Shen Qingyan, the powerful and aloof Prince Duan of Wangjing. Shen Qingyan bought his freedom and took him to a villa on the prince's estate. Nervously, Lin Shu went to attend to the prince, only to be firmly rejected. Only then did he learn that Prince Duan hadn't bought his freedom so Lin Shu could serve him. He wanted Lin Shu to host a parasite inside his body and become his medicine man, all to save the man his heart belonged to. When Lin Shu heard how generous the reward was, he agreed on the spot. He endured the pain and obediently let them feed him parasites. He endured the bitterness and obediently drank the medicine sent to him each month. Even though his health deteriorated every time he hosted the parasites, he didn't care. No one knew that he was already nearing the end of his life. He might as well make sure his mother and younger sister had a good future before he died. * Shen Qingyan had never met anyone as obedient as Lin Shu. Tell him to do something, and he would do it. Even when the parasites hurt so much that he was on the verge of passing out, he still smiled and said, "I'm fine." Though he was so frail that the slightest chill would leave him in a cold sweat, he always put on a brave face in front of Shen Qingyan. The usually cold-hearted Shen Qingyan suddenly began to regret it. He regretted asking Lin Shu to test the medicine and making him host the parasites. He couldn't bear to see Lin Shu suffer. He only wanted him to eat sweet things every day. He no longer wanted to save his friend's life. Why should Lin Shu's health be sacrificed to save someone else's life? Shen Qingyan stopped making Lin Shu host the parasites. But he didn't know it was already too late. Lin Shu's body had long since given out. The imperial physician's diagnosis was that Lin Shu had less than a month to live. Shen Qingyan went mad. "Didn't you say hosting parasites wouldn't cost him his life? What gives you the right to say he's going to die?!" "If a healthy person hosts parasites, they can recover after a few years of recuperation. But Young Master Lin was already frail. Even without the parasites, he only had three to five years left. Now that he's hosted them month after month, those parasites have become his death sentence!" Shen Qingyan looked at Lin Shu's pale face in his arms, his expression fierce. He would save Lin Shu, even if he had to search heaven and hell. * Eventually, everyone in Wangjing knew that Prince Duan doted on and protected the male lover he kept at his villa as if he were the apple of his eye. Later, the young lover unexpectedly turned out to be the younger son of the Ningyuan Marquis's household, who had been switched at birth. On the day he returned to the marquis's household, one precious congratulatory gift after another was sent from Prince Duan's residence to the Ningyuan Marquis's estate. They were gifts of congratulations, and also betrothal gifts. [Sweet, pitiful, sickly beauty shou x cold-hearted, sharp-tongued gong who falls hard and dotes on his wife] Both leads are each other's only one. The gong has no first love. A bittersweet, melodramatic story Theme: Love is the eternal definition