[Two male leads + feel-good revenge + two powerful leads / violent, unhinged, lovesick emperor as the bottom × gentle, calculating regent as the top]
Power struggle / political intrigue / tragic, deeply devoted romance
Ji Linyuan: I didn’t come back to reunite with you. I came to make you feel the pain of having your heart ripped out. You killed my entire family with your own hands, and now you want to beg for my forgiveness?
Ten years ago, the Xie family’s blood stained the streets. Seventh Prince Shen Yu knelt in the snow and wept until his eyes bled, only to hear one answer: Xie Qinglan was already dead.
Ten years later, the new emperor, Shen Yu, was vicious and violent. Yet at his first meeting with the great general, he crushed his wine cup. The famed general Ji Linyuan looked seven parts like his dead beloved!
“Your Majesty has mistaken me for someone else.” Ji Linyuan smiled as he bowed, a dagger glinting coldly in his sleeve. “The Xie Qinglan you speak of was sentenced to death by imperial decree, wasn’t he?”
In court, he was the gentle and refined Regent.
In the dead of night, he was a revenge-seeker moving carefully at every turn.
But when Shen Yu’s fever wouldn’t break and he clutched Ji Linyuan’s sleeve, calling him “Qinglan,” the bowl of poison... was ultimately replaced with a soothing draught.
[Bonus scene]
Shen Yu: “You want the empire? I’ll give it to you.”
Ji Linyuan: “I want you... to wish you were dead.”
“Very well.” The tyrant smiled as he clasped the blade.
As the truth slowly comes to light, the mastermind behind the massacre of the Xie family... turns out to be...?
I don't want to say it anymore, don't be an emperor if you are in love, it will make me mad to death 😄
It feels pretty good. It's not as exaggerated as what I said above. It's rare that I can read chapter by chapter. [Send my heart][Send my heart]