A Guide to the Frail Tycoon's Fake Canary Act

Sickly, beautiful, theatrical big-shot top X top-tier mercenary, shameless rogue bottom

Lan Lingxi (Lan Sheng) X Lou Yunchi

Everyone knows that M Country's most powerful big shot keeps a handsome young lover with a face like fine jade. His canary is cold and breathtaking, pure and immaculate. One glance from those phoenix eyes makes your heart melt. It's just a shame that the beauty is sickly: he coughs every few steps and presents himself each day with a sickly pallor.

Everyone knows the big shot spoils his canary to the skies, even letting him meddle in his business. Anyone who dares look down on or covet the canary ends up dead without a trace.

But what no one knows is that the canary is the big shot himself, hiding in plain sight.

Lan Lingxi knows he has a delicate, beautiful face. Because of it, everyone thinks he's an insignificant plaything, a canary kept in a cage for others to admire and toy with.

He can't be bothered to argue, so he plays along. If everyone thinks he's a canary, then all the better. It lets the "big shot behind the scenes" maintain an air of mystery, making it easier for him to do whatever he wants.

That is, until Lou Yunchi shows up and says to him, "Stop being with him. Be with me instead. I'll take better care of you."

Lan Lingxi finds that things have suddenly become interesting.

He falls in love with playing the canary, as if he really were fragile and trapped in a cage with no way out, risking his life every day to "sneak around" with Lou Yunchi.

He's the ungrateful lover who strays, while Lou Yunchi is the brazen "other man."

But he can never be a canary forever, yet he can't be a free bird either. He can't escape the mire.

Lou Yunchi, an internationally renowned top mercenary, has never failed a mission. Only twice has he walked away from a lucrative contract and paid double the fee in compensation.

Both times, it was for the same person.

The first time, he saw the sickly beauty covering his mouth to cough through his scope. The man's luminous phoenix eyes swept in his direction, glistening with tears and as irresistible as a hook.

Lou Yunchi's heart raced out of control, and he could no longer hold his rifle steady.

The second time was many years later, when Lan Sheng, no, Lan Lingxi appeared in his scope once again. Facing the man who had deceived him, toyed with him, and finally abandoned him, Lou Yunchi held his rifle steady.

But when Lan Lingxi silently let tears fall in his direction, his eyes red from crying, Lou Yunchi couldn't pull the trigger, no matter what.

He has always been helpless against Lan Lingxi. Once, he willingly played along with his "sneaking around" game. Now, one tear from the man is enough to make him surrender.

Two strong leads, devoted to each other, reconciliation after a breakup

They love each other desperately, but outside forces create misunderstandings that force them apart

First draft of the blurb, July 12, 2025. It may change later.

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