Sickly, always trying to get himself killed, prickly bottom × cold beauty top
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The year Lang Xie was born, his life hung by a thread. Someone gave him half of their life. At twelve, he split that half once more and gave half of it to someone else.
Dragging his sickly body into the treacherous capital, Lang Xie finally decided to turn over a new leaf, cherish his life, and live like a carefree nobody.
Unfortunately, debts must be repaid, and that goes double for debts of life.
A foreign prince with ill intentions, a sickly inmate who shares his life, a flirtatious beauty full of schemes, the persistent spring rain he always turns away...
Tender schemes, sincere hearts stained with blood. He can't get what he wants, and can't escape what he doesn't.
How in the world can he live like a carefree nobody?
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A former dynasty's heir spends years working for the current emperor and cleaning up his messes, then gets let off the hook and becomes a carefree layabout. An unfavored prince takes over as emperor because he has to, just to clean up after him. That's the story.
"Since I can't tie him down, I'll open up the world for him and clear away every danger. From now on, he can be as willful as he likes and cause as much trouble as he wants. At least he won't have to fear losing his life at any moment."
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A very old story.
Theme: Who's the more useless one?
The first chapter has the flavor of a storyteller