[A confused little dragon x a cool, aloof, bking prince]
Mi An was a little dragon, and his family had a tradition that had lasted for generations: when each dragon came of age, they had to carry off a princess from a kingdom.
On the day he came of age, he happily set off from home, planning to cross the forest and find his princess in human territory.
...But he had a poor sense of direction and accidentally got lost.
By the time he stumbled and fell outside the castle gates, his clothes were dirty, and dry branches and weeds were sticking out of his hair. He looked completely disheveled.
Mi An sighed in dismay.
How could his princess like him looking like this?
*
Kairis had just returned to the royal city after completing his trials when he spotted a small, unwelcome visitor outside his castle.
The boy's clothes were threadbare, but his hair was soft and black, and his skin was fair.
After a brief pause, Kairis lowered his eyes and walked over.
The boy was startled by him and hurriedly turned around.
Emerald-green eyes. Very pretty.
A little dragon.
Kairis narrowed his eyes.
But the little dragon just stared blankly at him. After a moment, his cheeks slowly flushed red.
"A-are you my princess?" the little dragon asked shyly.
Kairis: "...?"
*
Mi An was very happy with his life in the castle.
His princess was the most beautiful human he'd ever seen. She could be a little cold sometimes, but she treated him especially well, took him out to have fun, and gave him all kinds of delicious food...
So when Mi An learned that Kairis wasn't actually his princess, he was really angry.
One dark and stormy night, Mi An quietly slipped out of the castle, planning to search for his real princess.
Several days later, when he woke up, he found himself lying in a familiar, exquisitely luxurious bed.
A few days ago, he'd been reading, sleeping, and rolling around on this very bed without a care in the world.
But now, two thin iron chains were fastened around his ankles and attached to the bedposts. No matter what he did, he couldn't get free.
Just as he began to panic, the door opened and Kairis walked in.
His usually calm, emotionless eyes were now dark with an indescribable shadow.
Mi An instinctively took a step back.
Kairis came closer, lifted his chin, and said coldly, "Aren't you going to take responsibility for me?"
A monogamous romance, both leads' first relationship, 1v1, focused on the bottom.
Probably won't be very long, just a sweet Western fantasy fairy tale to lift your spirits.
[Reading Guide / Warnings]
* Just to be safe: The little dragon mistakenly calls him a princess because he's a bit dumb. Please don't call the top a princess. There is no princess persona. The top is very much a prince, and not at all a delicate, submissive type. Comments of that nature will be deleted. (Seriously.)
* The whole point of this story is to write about a silly, adorable little dragon and a prince. It's not for readers who think the bottom has to be portrayed as extremely tough to make sense. (His weakness early on is foreshadowing.)
* The bottom wears women's clothes for a chapter or two.
[The story has been revised. Pirated versions are inaccurate, and only the official version is supported. All pirated copies on other sites and paid story bundles are unauthorized. Please be careful, and any comments posted after reading a pirated copy will be deleted.]
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His Highness, What Are You Planning?: [A fake little-mom fish who only wants to survive and is a sucker for a pretty face x a taciturn, gloomy, obsessive, and outrageously rebellious prince]
During his vacation, Lin Yizhou's younger cousin got him to play a palace-intrigue game.
At first, he thought it was beneath him. But once he started raising his stats, he got hooked and played through the night without realizing it.
Then he closed his eyes, opened them, and found himself lying in an unfamiliar room.
Lin Yizhou: ?
"You're awake."
Before he could react, an ominous electronic voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Palace Heart has been logged in. Enjoy your game."
Lin Yizhou: ???!
*
To avoid being summoned to the bedchamber, raise his favorability, and save his own life, Lin Yizhou opened his eyes every morning and focused on making money. Invitations from consorts, summer outings, and everything else could wait. He took frugality to the extreme.
A eunuch came to report that a consort had died after a long illness, leaving behind a young prince in his teens. He asked if Lin Yizhou wanted to adopt him.
Lin Yizhou shook his head.
Raising a child takes too many resources. No thanks.
...Then, the first time Lin Yizhou saw that child, he stayed up all night taking stock of his storerooms.
*
By giving out gifts, Lin Yizhou made a name for himself in the imperial palace. He got carried away and didn't even notice that the child he'd adopted had grown taller than him.
He'd also become less and less talkative, making it increasingly hard to tell what he was thinking.
At first, Lin Yizhou thought he was going through a rebellious phase.
Until one day, he opened the door and saw Xie Ji sitting beside his desk.
A half-empty jug of wine sat by his hand, and the redness in his eyes had yet to fade.
"Consort Mother." The person who usually stubbornly called him Yizhou suddenly used this unfamiliar title, making Lin Yizhou's scalp prickle.
Xie Ji advanced step by step, pinning him against the doorway.
A strange premonition rose within Lin Yizhou. He felt that something was very wrong.
"Consort Mother," Xie Ji called to him again, his brows deeply furrowed.
They were so close that this time Lin Yizhou finally saw his eyes clearly.
They held a strange, overwhelming obsession.
"Why are you my Consort Mother?"
Lin Yizhou: ...
Isn't this going a little off the rails?
[Little scene]
Every time that person came to see him, he brought a gift.
Sometimes it was a brush, sometimes an inkstone, sometimes a book, sometimes an inkstone...
...Wait, hadn't he given him this one already?
Xie Ji looked at the young man across from him with a complicated expression.
But when he saw the man gazing at him with a smile, hands cupping his face, and eagerly asking if he liked the gift, he couldn't bring himself to say anything.
He must have given gifts to too many people and lost track.
Xie Ji thought with a dark expression.
...And so he received inkstones for three or four days in a row.
"..."
Looking at the three identical brushes and four inkstones lined up on the desk, Xie Ji thought: This man really is suspicious.
Theme: See the world clearly
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