After Disguising Herself as a Man, the Crippled Crown Prince Dotes on Her

Blurb:

Xie Qihuo was born into a stern and rule-bound ducal household. Fortunately, her parents had protected her since childhood. Though she had no choice but to dress as a boy, she still lived a carefree, unrestrained life. That was, until the princes came of age, the emperor grew old, and the capital's factions began stirring beneath the surface. She could no longer sit idly by.

As it happened, the pitiful young son of her "neighbor auntie," who had been left behind in the capital, was caught right in the center of the power struggle. Unable to bear seeing Auntie worry about him day after day, Xie Qihuo decided to venture into the mire herself and pull him out.

Thanks to Xie Qihuo's ingenious maneuvering, she finally completed the mission to everyone's satisfaction.

Everything had gone well, except that as she was leaving, the person she had rescued, who had been left behind in the capital, kept looking at her with a pitiful expression.

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Shen Qingcheng had always believed that the age of five was a turning point. From then on, his life had fallen into darkness.

His family members died one after another. Not long after, an accident left him suddenly crippled in both legs. His mother, the Empress, gradually stopped staying in the palace, and the number of people close to him whom he could trust dwindled.

He knew perfectly well that anyone who approached him without reason must have an ulterior motive. There were no exceptions.

Only... Xie Qihuo seemed different. Maybe she was just a little strange in the head.

She appeared out of nowhere and inexplicably drew close to him. Every attempt to sound her out came to nothing. Could she really have come for his sake?

No. Impossible. He had nothing but the empty title of Crown Prince and a useless, disabled body. Why would anyone choose him over a prince at the height of his power and popularity?

If she did choose him, he could never let her go easily!

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Xia Zhi admitted that she had said she didn't want to live anymore, but she hadn't actually wanted to die!

Being a wage slave was hard enough, and then she got hit and sent flying on her way home from work. Could someone tell her if that counted as a work-related injury?

Still, it was fine. It was all over now, and she could finally get a good night's sleep.

Ha! She knew there was no such thing as a free lunch! Could someone tell her where she was? And where had this stupid system come from? Why couldn't she get any rest even after dying?

System: Dear Ms. Xia Zhi, we have a one-click revival bundle for you! Click to claim.

System: ...Just click.

System: All right, you've claimed the revival bundle. Complete all the tasks to obtain a real body in this world.

Xia Zhi: Is there a complaints department? Is nobody in charge here? I think I've been bound by a one-sided contract.

Since I'm already here, there's no way I'm going to accept it peacefully. I can't fight back, but nobody said I couldn't slack off. Don't worry, I'm definitely not completing the tasks.

This Host was such a headache that threats and bribes had no effect. The System had no choice but to dump her in a ruined temple and force-start the mission.

The System, which ran off after dumping her there: I've delivered her. Whether you can change her fate is up to you.

The dilapidated temple held only an old beggar and a little beggar. They had a decent sense of boundaries and pretended not to notice Xia Zhi suddenly appearing in the corner, leaving each other alone.

Xia Zhi: Not bad. A socially anxious person's dream.

Though she had been dumped in an unfamiliar place, Xia Zhi wasn't nervous at all. She decided to follow her original plan and starve herself to death.

So she closed her eyes and waited. She didn't know how long she waited, but her consciousness grew hazy. It felt like her soul was about to leave her body, like she was almost there.

Suddenly, warm liquid was poured into her mouth. Her body swallowed instinctively, and her barely conscious mind snapped back at once.

In front of her was a filthy little beggar with tears in his eyes. He seemed to have been frightened into crying by her.

Fair enough. It must be terrifying to see someone die right in front of you. How rude of her. So she got up... or tried to. She couldn't get up, and just crawled outside instead.

In the end, Xia Zhi still didn't leave the ruined temple, just as in the end, she still accepted the mission.

The male lead's point of view:

Old Su said that if I grew up well, I'd surely amount to something.

What's amounting to something?

He said it meant eating my fill every day, having clothes to wear, and being able to marry a wife.

What's a wife?

Old Su tapped me on the head and said a wife was the girl you liked best.

Then I don't need to grow up. I already have a wife. I like Zhizhi best.

Old Su really wasn't reliable. He said he'd live to be a hundred, but died just a few years later. And as I grew older, I could eat my fill and keep warm, but Zhizhi disappeared instead.

All right, the old really are wiser. Old Su was right. Zhizhi came back, though she was pretending not to know me. Maybe it's because I'm still not big enough?

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