The Prince Doesn’t Realize He’s Flirting

[Both reborn + political intrigue + sweet romance + two equally powerful leads]

But the funniest thing was that the throne ended up going to the one person least suited to be emperor.

As my mother consort lay dying, she told me a shocking secret: I wasn't Father Emperor's child.

My mother told me that Father Emperor had doted on her at first, but later realized she was nothing more than a pretty face. With beauties aplenty in the harem, he soon grew cold toward her.

In a fit of anger, my mother had an affair with the imperial physician who treated her, and I was born. Later, that physician was convicted of an offense, stripped of his status, and driven out of the palace.

My mother didn't tell me about my birth until she was on her deathbed. Fortunately, only the three of us knew the truth, and my mother was dead while the physician had been stripped of his status and expelled from the palace.

Naturally, I didn't dare tell anyone else. But what made me happy was that the person I loved and I weren't related by blood.