The Hated Young Master Is Being Hounded by a Mad Dog

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Ning Ziqing is the young master of the Ning family in name only: spoiled, carefree, willful, and reckless.

Everyone says he's a good-for-nothing with terrible aptitude, an illegitimate son who doesn't belong in polite society, and a universally despised nuisance.

But Ning Ziqing doesn't care.

So what if everyone hates him? He insists on living freely and making life difficult for everyone who hates him to the bone.

Later, the father who is the only person to ever "dote" on Ning Ziqing kidnaps Baili Xian, a newly renowned genius, and poisons him, claiming he's a gift for Ning Ziqing's Foundation Establishment ceremony.

Forced to kneel before Ning Ziqing, Baili Xian hides barely perceptible malice in his calm eyes.

Ning Ziqing sees right through him, but only sneers. "If you're going to be my slave, then keep your rabid dog's eyes to yourself."

Baili Xian is a concubine-born son who has been bullied by his family. After enduring humiliation for years, he carelessly reveals his talent and is given by the Baili family to the Ning family, forced to serve Ning Ziqing, the young master of the Ning family, who does whatever he pleases.

He intends to keep biding his time and take merciless revenge on the arrogant young master who doesn't know his place.

But he gradually discovers that the young master isn't quite what he imagined.

The young master orders him around, but won't let anyone else bully him.

He complains that Baili Xian is clumsy and can't do anything right, but also personally applies medicine and cooks for him.

The young master seems spoiled, but is actually easy to reason with. It seems he only uses his haughty exterior to hide a sensitive heart.

Baili Xian admits that he has fallen helplessly into the young master's clutches.

He's still a rabid dog, but this time...

The rabid dog offers up his own leash, willingly submitting to his master's control.

An unserious little cover scene

Ning Ziqing: Is this why you're so eager to be a dog?

Baili Xian: (offers the leash) (wags his tail) Does Master want to abandon me?

Ning Ziqing: ...

Who knows if he's crazy, but clingy and hard to deal with, definitely.

Spoiled young master bottom x long-suffering rabid dog top

"Reader's Guide"

1. The Three Realms' standard is one-on-one. Their hearts and bodies belong only to each other.

2. The bottom really is universally hated. From beginning to end, only the top and bottom will have mutual feelings for each other. There won't be any one-sided crushes on either of them, so if that's not your thing, please feel free to stop here.

3. Both the top and bottom have character flaws. The top dotes on the bottom first; once the bottom falls for him, they dote on each other.

§ Next Historical BL Novel §

Title: A Seductive Beauty, But He Seduced the Wrong Person

In a sentence: He has romanced countless beauties, but sooner or later he'll get burned.

Blurb:

Shen Weixu transmigrates into a book and unexpectedly becomes bound to a System, which tells him he must win over the protagonist of the book to survive.

But before the System can tell him who the protagonist is, it breaks down halfway through and begins repairing itself.

Using the plot fragments provided by the System, Shen Weixu finds the pitiful, helpless protagonist who's constantly bullied.

He uses his greatest talent for seduction, offering the protagonist warmth and teaching him to write, ride, and shoot. Winning the protagonist's trust is easy.

Seven years later, on the day the protagonist blushes and gathers the courage to confess to him,

the System finishes repairing itself and tells him he's won over the wrong person.

He mistook Pei Zhiyao, the biggest villain in the book, for the protagonist. Pei Zhiyao was still harmless and hadn't yet thrown the court into chaos.

Shen Weixu: ...I have countless curses I don't know whether I should say.

A law-abiding citizen, Shen Weixu, reluctantly accepts his fate after all. He cruelly turns down the confession, packs up, and runs away that very day to find the real protagonist and get close to him.

Then the villain follows the original plot, passes the imperial examinations, and successfully turns evil.

It's just that the direction of his descent into darkness seems a little off...?

In a dark room on a moonless, windy night.

Pei Zhiyao, the newly appointed Chancellor with power over the court, gently strokes the blindfold over Shen Weixu's eyes, his voice sweet and harmless.

"Your eyes look best when they're only looking at me, Brother."

A seductive beauty bottom who values his life above all else x a devoted, possessive top who's innocent at first and turns sly later

Theme: Be yourself, and don't let other people's words get to you