The Unlucky Knight's Dragon-Raising Handbook

[Western fantasy, goofy sweet romance. Bonus chapters now updated. Also, check out my daily-updating historical danmei, The Ill-Fated Beauty Fails to Bring Her Husband to Ruin. The blurb is at the very end. If you're interested, add it to your library. Mwah~]

Vilan Claude is a famous freshman at the Empire's Royal Knight Academy, nicknamed the "Knight of Misfortune."

He trips over tree roots, chokes while eating, and always draws the worst lot... Even dragons can't stand him!

As a dragon-rider candidate, he's been rejected by dragons 108 times in a row. The academy has had enough and threatens to expel him: "Leave the dragons alone!"

Just when all hope seems lost, he finds a treasure in a little grove: a frail, pitiful little dragon that shimmers like silver!

Vilan is moved to tears. The heavens have finally smiled on him! It's my turn to be lucky! Right now! Immediately! I'll force a contract!

But...

Silvio is a Crystal Silver Dragon, with an ancestral bloodline and overwhelming strength.

But he's lazy! Picky about food! Fussy! And sharp-tongued!

"I'm hungry!" "Dragon feed? Trash. I'm not eating it."

"I'm cold!" "The dragon stable? A pigsty. I'm not staying there."

"You're an idiot!" "Give me a massage? Hmph. I suppose that'll do."

Vilan is speechless. Whatever happened to being weak and helpless? What I picked up wasn't a dragon, it was a spoiled little prince!

To cater to His Highness, the unlucky knight unlocks new skills: building a dragon's lair by hand, honing his cooking, and becoming a personal masseur...

Got an F on the assessment? No worries. Vilan's motto has always been, "I'll definitely get it next time!"

Until the haughty dragon transforms into a silver-haired young man, drives off everyone who covets Vilan with his sharp tongue, and declares possessively, "He's mine."

Amid the smoke and flames of battle, the Crystal Dragon unleashes his fury to protect his Knight of Misfortune.

Only then does Vilan realize that all this "misfortune" of his may have finally brought him the greatest luck of his life.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance. The unlucky but optimistic, quippy bottom x the secretly haughty, lazy Crystal Dragon top. Happy ending.

2. Equally matched leads, with a nurturing relationship and lighthearted progression.

---------------Below is the blurb for the story currently updating--------------

Title: The Ill-Fated Beauty Fails to Bring Her Husband to Ruin

Xiao Fuxue is the famous star performer of the Yunshao House, and the ill-fated lone star known to everyone in the capital and beyond.

His birth supposedly killed his parents. When he was seven, his entire clan was arrested and exiled, and he himself was stripped of his status and reduced to a government entertainer at the Yunshao House.

At first, he cried and raged, but no matter how hard he tried, he could never escape the merciless tricks of fate.

Whenever some high-ranking official who refused to believe in curses considered buying his freedom, disaster immediately struck. At best, they lost their posts and were convicted of crimes; at worst, they lost their lives.

Everyone called him unlucky and avoided him like the plague. Sometimes even he wondered: was he really an ill-fated lone star?

As time went on, Xiao Fuxue stopped caring. He only wanted to live quietly. Perhaps one day, those above would show mercy and let him live as an ordinary citizen.

But fate played another joke on him.

After a banquet, a cold and imposing man sat high on his horse and suddenly lifted Xiao Fuxue's chin with his riding crop. He said with interest, "His Majesty needs someone to attend to him. Someone like you... would be perfect for the palace."

The palace? Him? An entertainer everyone called an ill-fated lone star, someone they all dreaded getting near?

He thought this was just an offhand joke from a powerful man at the expense of someone as lowly as him. But that very night, he was sent to the emperor's bedchamber.

Only then did he learn that the man was the emperor's uncle, the regent.

This "honor" of being sent into the palace by his own hand was also due to Xiao Fuxue's ill-fated destiny.

The prince wants him to bring about the death of the frail, ailing emperor. But the emperor is secretly vigorous and healthy, and could easily live to eighty.

An ambitious general sees him as a pawn to sow discord in the royal family, locking horns with the regent in a bitter struggle.

An old friend who was once inseparable from him at the Yunshao House claims to have entered the palace to find him, but hides an unspeakable secret.

Xiao Fuxue can't help frowning. Can his ill-fated destiny really bring these powerful men to ruin?

He can't help looking again at the emperor, who stands above all others and can decide whether Xiao Fuxue lives or dies at any moment, yet seems so different from what he imagined.

If his fate really is that powerful, then he'll see whether he falls into their hands first, or they die because of him.

[Reading Guide]

1. A fictional dynasty. Official titles, customs, and institutions are invented to serve the story.

2. A resilient, wild-grass type bottom x a seemingly frail but truly scheming emperor top. At the Yunshao House, the bottom only sang and danced for a living. Everyone is pure!!! The story has a love-all-men tendency, so proceed with caution if that bothers you!

3. The focus is on the protagonist's growth, with political intrigue as a secondary element. None of the characters are perfect.

Theme: Face challenges with optimism