Ashes, Snow, and Bright Moon: My Former Nemesis Begs Me to Take the Throne

[Rekindled love | Two male leads | A touch of groveling | Multiple romance storylines]

Nine years ago: a meek, innocent top vs. a gentle, powerful bottom

Now: a cunning, possessive regent top vs. a cool, calculating beauty who knows how to draw people in

Later: an obedient puppy vs. a cool beauty

At the auction in the thirty-fifth year of Yuanhua,

“Xie Xuejian, I’ve been searching for you for so long.”

Once a young master of the Xie family, composing poetry that captivated the capital at six and writing Treatise on Governing the State at seven, Xie Xuejian is now up for auction.

“Forget me...”

The young general once whispered those words in his ear, then turned to face the guards and tragically fell off a cliff.

When the unconscious Chi Zhaoren wakes, all he sees is “Xie Xuejian” entangled with bandits. On orders from Xie’s father, he is thrown into a mass grave.

Nine years later, they meet again. The once-weak illegitimate son has become a cunning, possessive regent.

“A-Ren, you’ve grown up.”

He looks up with a smile and calls him by the pet name he has kept locked away for nine years.

“A stray dog from the ruined Xie family dares to call me by my childhood name?”

He deliberately lets others humiliate this moon of his: “Xie Xuejian, it’s time you paid me back!”

“Your Highness is sure... that I’m the one who owes you?”

Later, at the new emperor’s enthronement ceremony, the all-powerful regent removes his seal of office and kneels before everyone.

“Your servant offers three hundred thousand iron cavalry as a betrothal gift...”