The Flirtatious Pavilion Master Crashes Again: Retired Emperor, Stay Away

“The hard-drinking, flirtatious, talkative, hot-tempered Pavilion Master x the scheming, irreverent, pure-hearted retired emperor”

(One-on-one, mutually devoted, happy ending; an all-badass, ultra-cool ensemble; hilarious political intrigue; lighthearted)

The hot-tempered Pavilion Master Shen Qingxian chased someone into his own Pleasure House and “gobbled him up.”

The retired Emperor Xiao Jin’s secret identity as the Pavilion Master of Hidden Wind Pavilion was exposed by the hidden pattern on his belt.

After Shen Qingxian gets caught up in a corruption scandal in the northern frontier, he discovers that the tangled case seems to be connected, piece by piece, to the massacre of his own family...

The two are forced to work together.

Shen Qingxian wants to use imperial power to reopen the blood-soaked case, while Xiao Jin wants to control the court with his intelligence network.

From mutual exploitation to entrusting each other with their lives, they eventually clear the case.

Shen Qingxian commands the largest intelligence network and knows that although Xiao Jin has abdicated, he still holds power behind the scenes. The other man’s offer of cooperation comes at just the right time. With his support, the investigation will surely go twice as smoothly.

Each of them has their own agenda.

Yet Xiao Jin, his ally after they agree to cooperate, has always been calm and collected. Suddenly, however, he seems to have lost his mind, turning a blind eye to Shen Qingxian’s schemes and plots. Even the way he looks at Shen Qingxian seems off.

But as far as Shen Qingxian is concerned, it’s a mutually beneficial arrangement. They each get what they need.

One is all brains, the other has lost his mind.

By all appearances, this match is bizarrely perfect...

As they carry on in this “sinister and bizarre,” “false-hearted,” “each with their own agenda” way, the two work together so seamlessly that, while setting traps for each other, they manage to finish off all their respective missions...

And trap themselves in the process...