Lu Yuxi is an utterly ordinary, several-thousand-year-old geezer who owns a coffee shop (in reality, he's unemployed).
His life motto: Keep your head down and survive. That's victory!
Thanks to his supposedly ancestral skill of "outliving his enemies" (not actually ancestral), he finally makes it to the new century and settles into a quiet life, scrimping and saving while raising a kid (?)
Until
The fat cat he sent away years ago looks around his home with a critical eye and immediately says something outrageous: "I'll give you 100,000. Hurry up and save my godson!"
Lu Yuxi: ? What godson? Is 'god' a noun or a verb?
*
For the sake of the 100,000, Lu Yuxi decides he should be proactive. Before he can proactively offer himself up, his "godson" comes rushing to his door.
A financial magazine coverboy in a sharp suit, standing at 183 centimeters tall, looks down at him with the same critical gaze as the fat cat.
"My grandfather's will says I have to live and sleep with you, and give you a large sum of money." The well-dressed man talks just as infuriatingly as the fat cat. "I don't mind giving you the money, but to be frank, not just anyone can enter the Lu family."
Lu Yuxi: "..."
Question: How did the little creature I casually raised end up being a nuisance even to his grandfather's generation?
Lu Yuxi: If being hard-done-by is a talent ^_^
*
Their life together is chaotic. The "old friends" Lu Yuxi nearly went bald trying to outlive all come back to life, bringing trouble in droves.
Not only does he have to take care of his cat-grandson CEO's precarious materialist worldview, he's also forced to help the cat deal with a murder attempt
Trouble A is tall and mighty, known on the streets as Old Dragon.
Lu Yuxi (battle-damaged but still fighting): Just an old dragon? I've got a cheat!
He tries to run away after the promised will doesn't materialize, only to get caught in another scheme
His retirement cottage becomes a spider's den, and Trouble B waits for Lu like a rabbit by a stump.
Lu Yuxi (poisoned but rescued): The world is so big. I need to call for backup...
Reluctantly, he accepts reality and takes Trouble A on to help him find a job. But then Trouble A gets blown away by Trouble C
Alone, he travels a thousand miles into a monster's lair to retrieve a mysteriously vanished food delivery.
Lu Yuxi (the working man who never gives up): Anything an excavator can flatten isn't a problem ^_^
*
Lu Yuxi thinks his hard-luck life has reached its limit, until he discovers that the CEO is someone from his past.
Lu Yuxi: No wonder he's a CEO. He stabbed me with such gusto a thousand years ago, then reincarnated fast enough to catch the good times ^_^
As Lu Yuxi prepares to run away, the man behind him, pretending to be asleep, wraps his arms tightly around him. His voice is as soft as a sigh: "Lu Yuxi... I've never hated you."
"This time, please don't leave me behind, okay?"
[Reading Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners.
2. The bottom is a true survival expert, with all his points in escaping. He's stingy and cautious, but fiercely protective of his own.
3. The bottom had a reason for stabbing the top.
4. To be added.
One-on-one romance, primarily from the bottom's perspective.
A stingy, sly bottom who doesn't realize he's a master flirt, with ordinary talent but becomes a big shot simply by living long enough * A wealthy, handsome top who's stubborn and cold on the surface, but a hopeless romantic and an imaginative man who insists on living in a scientific society.
Theme: Love knows no bounds of species or age.
