The Beautiful Cannon Fodder Just Wants to Survive

[Uke's point of view]

Yun Song has a nightmare.

In the dream, Prince Jin comes to ask for his hand in marriage, and as the only "daughter" of the Yun family, Yun Song is chosen at first sight.

Everyone says he's lucky: a mere concubine's daughter, suddenly elevated to the position of the prince's primary consort.

Only he and his mother are filled with bitterness, unable to sleep at night.

On the day of the wedding, he racks his brains to come up with excuses, hoping Prince Jin won't share his bed. But Prince Jin has no intention of entering the room at all.

It's as if he married Yun Song merely to add an inoffensive ornament to his household. He pays him no attention whatsoever.

Later, Yun Song hears that Prince Jin has rebelled and massacred the imperial palace.

Not long afterward, Prince Jin takes Yun Song's legitimate older brother by the hand and sets a cup of poisoned wine before him.

"I married you only because you look a little like him, and because you're a woman. The person I love has always been Yun Ji."

Yun Song is terrified.

No matter how desperately he begs, the poisoned wine is still forced down his throat, searing through his organs with unbearable pain.

When Yun Song wakes, drenched in cold sweat, he curls up as his body trembles violently. The agony of the poison burning through him is still vivid in his mind.

He's afraid of pain, and even more afraid of dying.

He wants to live.

So he sets his sights on the Crown Prince.

[Short blurb]

Crown Prince Xue Rangchen has striking brows and starry eyes, and is refined and elegant, a celestial being praised by everyone in Shengjing.

He is also chaste and upright, and still unmarried at the age of twenty. For a time, he is highly sought after, becoming the ideal husband in the hearts of all the noble young ladies.

However, one day, people hear that at a banquet held by the Minister of Revenue's residence, a bewitching woman seduced the Crown Prince in the back garden. The two were caught in the act, entangled in passion in a warm pavilion.

The Crown Prince's reputation plummets, and he's branded a lecher.

The emperor is furious. To restore the royal family's dignity, he orders the Crown Prince to marry the woman and forbids him from leaving the Eastern Palace for three months.

Once the imperial decree is issued, the noble young ladies' hearts shatter.

Three months later, when the ban is lifted, the noble young ladies see the rumored Crown Princess at a royal banquet.

They see the usually proper and decorous Crown Prince holding him on his lap and speaking softly as he coaxes him.

Yun Song: "Don't talk to me!"

Crown Prince: "Then can I keep kissing you?"

Yun Song: "?"

Noble young ladies: "???"

Black-hearted seme x crybaby uke

Note: The life the uke dreams about is the one he experienced in his previous life.

[Blurb written on October 11, 2023]

Theme: Even in adversity, keep a kind heart