[A woman disguised as a fake prince × a seemingly harmless hostage prince who plots his way forward]
(Villain-bashing + plot-driven + political intrigue + dual secret identities + lighthearted, sweet romance)
Mo Wenzhi has escaped her mother’s control and is living freely under her male disguise.
Her cheap excuse for a father, the emperor, wants to name her Crown Prince every day, but she’s a woman! She can’t become emperor and then have three thousand consorts who can’t produce a single heir, can she?
Luckily, she’s hopeless at her studies and spends her days making trouble until the palace is in chaos, earning herself a reputation as a useless, spoiled prince. Just as she’s about to miss her chance at the Eastern Palace and spend the rest of her life doing as she pleases, Chu Yu arrives, a hostage prince returning from Beixiang.
No one knows what Chu Yu’s life was like in Beixiang. Back in Xiling, he intends to find a prince to support in taking the throne. Then he spots that spoiled prince who doesn’t want to be emperor and decides to push Mo Wenzhi onto the Crown Prince’s seat. He chases, she runs, and they travel together. Chu Yu discovers that he has fallen for Mo Wenzhi, the very person he helped make Crown Prince. But once she succeeds to the throne, she’ll have three thousand concubines. He’ll die of jealousy!
Wait, the point isn’t the three thousand concubines. The point is that he isn’t into men!
After a struggle, Chu Yu convinces himself that if he likes men, so be it. He can blush his way through some research into erotic art about men together. It’s no big deal.
But then the unreliable Crown Prince’s secret identity is exposed. The cold, reserved prince pins him to the bed, his face dark with anger. You said you were a man! You said you liked men! You’re not getting out of bed tonight!
