[Includes: Top → #male rivalry# #green tea# #handsome fox# #innocent-looking but dark-hearted# #jealous# #drama queen#]
Liu Yuqing was a spoiled young master who loved collecting beautiful things.
One day, while spending lavishly on his hobby, he happened upon a scholar who was half-dead.
The scholar was hard of hearing and sickly, but his face was breathtakingly beautiful.
Young Master Liu liked him immensely and immediately decided to spend a fortune dragging him back from the gates of death.
After waking, the scholar was gentle and refined, his smile as refreshing as a spring breeze. He did everything Liu Yuqing asked.
Young Master Liu liked him even more. He sent expensive tonics to his room as if they cost nothing. When he found out the scholar wanted to take the imperial examinations, he even hired a private tutor to teach him one-on-one, doing everything he could to help.
As time passed, Liu Yuqing’s friends urged him to cut his losses.
The scholar was talented and extraordinary, clearly destined for greater things. All that time and effort would just end up benefiting someone else. Dongpo and the wolf were his future.
Liu Yuqing stared at the scholar, who was earnestly massaging his legs, and fell into thought.
How could the scholar lie to him?
After much hesitation, he decided to lay down three rules before sending the scholar to the capital for the examinations:
One: Never forget a debt of gratitude.
Two: Never set your heart on someone else.
Three: Never...
Liu Yuqing hadn’t even finished speaking before the scholar agreed, even completing the rule for him.
“Three: Never marry or have children, and stay by Young Master’s side forever.”
Liu Yuqing, who hadn’t even dared to make such an overbearing demand: ...
There was no need to take it that far.
So Liu Yuqing said as much.
He might be a spoiled young master, but he wasn’t a scoundrel.
Who knew the scholar would react in a way he never had before, immediately shedding his gentle mask and cornering him against the wall. Looking down at him, he demanded, “Does Third Master intend to seduce me and then abandon me?”
Liu Yuqing: ? Something doesn’t seem right here.
*
The scholar went to the capital, and for two years, there was no word from him.
Fortunately, Young Master Liu had a healthy outlook and soon picked himself up, preparing to head south and leave this place of heartbreak.
But a rumor spread that he was going out to pick up a second scholar.
So, on the night before his departure, Young Master Liu was unexpectedly kidnapped.
When Liu Yuqing woke, he found himself in a luxurious bedchamber, his clothes half-open and his feet bound.
His kidnapper was the scholar who had been missing for so long.
The scholar was now clad in a purple robe and gold belt, elegant and dignified, with not a trace of his former sickly air.
When he saw Liu Yuqing stir, the scholar’s smile grew cold. The voice that had once gently massaged his legs now felt like a cold blade between his ribs.
“Has Third Master forgotten our agreement?”
*
Duan Luanzhou had never believed that anyone could live on memories.
But the truth was that for more than seven hundred days and nights, he had survived by remembering those days spent eating and living with a spoiled young master, climbing mountains and crossing rivers until he became half a farmhand.
He had spent two years remembering a half-year dream.
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1. The scholar’s hearing loss is feigned. It’s also a little trick the top uses for play.
2. Set in a fictional world, no historical research.
[Innocent-looking but dark-hearted, obsessive scholar top x spirited, vigorous young master]
Theme: Keep working hard to make your way forward.
