A Sickly Crown Prince's Fake Guide to Acting Obedient

[Outwardly a refined, moonlit, and frail Crown Prince, inwardly a ruthless lunatic who receives × a loyal, wife-protecting, revenge-seeking, lovesick attack]

*Both the attacker and the one receiving the attack are lunatics, with an excessively high lunatic content level

*In the attacker's eyes, the one receiving the attack is greater than everything else

[I've been busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy with things for the past three updates and am about to go crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Updates are irregular; I'll try to post every other day.]

A goofy, over-the-top story

As the puppet Crown Prince of Yan, Yan Wen spent years biding his time, enduring in silence, and plotting every move, all while dragging around his sickly body. He cleared every obstacle in his path to the throne.

He was just one step away from the throne.

...And then someone destroyed his kingdom.

Yan Wen: "Damn it! Which bastard did this? Don't you know it's hard to snatch a throne these days?!"

He lay in the snow, cursing and waiting to die. Wiping the tears from his face, Yan Wen said, "Heavens, I'll never call you Grandpa again. You really do treat me like your grandson. Sob."

*

A young master arrived at the Chancellor's residence in Ji. Rumor had it that he stood straight as a cypress and was as gentle as jade.

The news set the people abuzz. Invitations from the sons and daughters of officials poured in without end, all hoping to catch a glimpse of the Chancellor's son's unparalleled talent and beauty.

Yan, who had stayed up all night going through 888 invitations, Wen: "...For heaven's sake, these are outrageous rumors, outrageous rumors."

Just as he looked up to the heavens, wailing and tearfully working through the invitations, someone kicked open the tightly shut gates of the Chancellor's residence.

Yan Wen: "Is there a demolition happening?"

The person who kicked the gate: "Your Highness, have you forgotten the dog you kept back in Yan?"

Yan Wen: "Thanks for the offer, but don't make things up. I've never had a dog."

The person who kicked the gate: "Woof, woof."

*

After Fu Huaijin was randomly selected to spend ten years as a hostage in Yan, he had just finished looking around his new quarters when he came upon a young man being forced to kneel while a eunuch slapped him across the face.

Look at that young man. What a pitiful sight, with tears streaming down his face in two broad noodles.

Committed to the principle of drawing one's sword to help someone in trouble, Fu Huaijin decided to step forward and uphold justice.

But the very next moment, he saw the young man silently take out a dagger.

And kill the eunuch.

With one stab.

Fu Huaijin: "Damn, impressive."

And so things continued to spiral further and further out of control:

The Chancellor, whom Yan Wen had stabbed, came running to Fu Huaijin with a hand pressed to his chest wound to complain: "Seventh Highness, your wife stabbed me."

Fu Huaijin: "He didn't do it on purpose. Besides, you're not dead, are you?"

The Chancellor: "Nice."

The Fourth Prince of Ji, whom Yan Wen had kicked into a lake and nearly left unable to climb back out, came dripping wet with a strand of pondweed on his head and yelled at the two of them: "Fu Huaijin, can you keep him in line?"

Yan Wen threw himself into Fu Huaijin's arms. "Sniffle."

Fu Huaijin (blushing): "Wifey, you're adorable."

The Fourth Prince of Ji: "Get lost."

HE, with nothing but sweetness between the leads and no angst

*They reunite in the first three chapters. The romance is fully depicted in the Yan Kingdom arc of Volume Two.

*One-on-one romance, both pure, love at first sight, both powerful and both lunatics

*The one receiving the attack has many secret identities, spends the whole story pretending to be weak while secretly being strong, and is hooked on acting

Premise: An overpowered veteran starts over in the beginner's village, works hard, strives forward, and joins hands with others to build a beautiful kingdom.