When a Laid-Back Bottom Wakes Up in the Middle Ages

01

After dying from overwork, Shui Xingyun was reborn on the continent of Calvado.

He thought, "I worked too hard in my last life. This time, I'm going to lie around and live like a lazy fish."

However, he was now just a low-ranking alchemy apprentice, with a lowly position, little ability, and a home with nothing in it. He could only get by on the most basic monthly stipend.

Without working hard and pushing himself, he had no future or hope.

Wait, the stipend can be claimed indefinitely?

This isn't the most miserable, hopeless profession at all. It's a marvelous job where I can eat and drink for free!

Having spotted the loophole, Shui Xingyun immediately settled into a carefree, unambitious life.

A year later, his hair was thick, his eyes bright, and his neck and spine were straight. All the fatigue and aches he'd accumulated from work had vanished. His life was happy and leisurely.

Just as he was planning to live this way for the rest of his life, news arrived: the new lord had ordered stricter KPI assessments for alchemists. Anyone who failed would lose their stipend and job.

Only the highest rank of alchemist, a legendary alchemist, was exempt from the assessment. Such a person was said to exist only in legend.

With nowhere else to turn, Shui Xingyun steeled himself, forged a legendary alchemist's certificate, and knocked on the lord's door in the middle of the night.

02

The Percy family has a well-known custom.

As werewolves, they always return to their original forms at night, following their instincts to display their strength and claim power and status.

Yet no one had ever seen the true form of the family head, Lance.

To outsiders, a ruler like him, who had inherited a duke's title, controlled vast northern territories, and always had the final say, would surely be the mightiest giant wolf, able to summon the wind and rain with a single swipe of his paw.

In truth, because his uncle and cousins had conspired against him when he was young, he grew up lacking magical power and became the weakest little wolf in the entire family.

Lance hated his own weakness and helplessness. He never revealed his true form in front of anyone, and for years, he had only stared at himself in the mirror late at night, sighing over his bloodied reflection.

On the night he turned fourteen, as usual, he was staring at his wolf claws when a green figure wrapped in a black cloak suddenly fell from the sky and crashed onto his bed.

"Hello." Shui Xingyun politely took hold of the little wolf's paw, which was trembling with rage, and handed over his forged certificate. "I'm here to freeload... I mean, become your retainer."

A scheming, devilishly clever seme who's lazy to the core X a lord uke bent on working hard with a revenge plot

Reading Guide:

1. The seme is lazy, but he's a well-mannered lazy person. Pay him enough overtime and everything can be discussed (not really).

2. The seme and uke have an age gap of almost seven years, with some older-man raising-a-younger-man elements (though it's mostly hands-off, lol).

3. The uke's original form is a Baffin Island tundra wolf. Look it up if you're curious. When he first appears, he's a young boy; later, he grows up into an incredibly cool giant wolf.

Theme: Only hard work can lead to a good life.