“I only meant to latch onto a powerful patron and coast to victory. Instead, I ended up becoming his blade, his shield, and his… beloved.”
Others transmigrate into books with a System and cheat powers. Jian Si has only a stolen waist token and a few crude fighting skills. From the start, he's mistaken for an assassin and tied to a pillar in the imperial mausoleum. Facing him is Mu Xingnan, the disgraced crown prince, famed for being “cool as jade and beyond anyone's reach”
the very man who once tried to strangle him.
To stay alive, Jian Si talks a mile a minute:
“Your Highness, I'm the Great Immortal Huang. I can turn stone into gold and summon wind and rain. I'm a professional at helping true emperors claim the throne!”
Mu Xingnan raises a hand with cool indifference. “Show me how you stay alive first.”
Later
The “Great Immortal” never became an immortal, but did become the number-one name on the Eastern Depot's blacklist.
The “disgraced crown prince” refused to accept his fate, fighting his way from the cold palace and imperial mausoleum back to the throne room.
And Jian Si, with a stolen waist token, gold ingots he conned someone out of, and a life he gambled, carved a bloody path for Mu Xingnan. He also turned himself from a street thief into the “Blue-Faced Rakshasa,” a name that made the eunuch faction tremble.
Later still, on a moonless, windy night, Mu Xingnan leaned down and whispered in his ear:
“I want the empire, and I want you too.”
Jian Si gritted his teeth. “Your Highness, I sell my skills, not my body…”
Mu Xingnan chuckled. “The empire is mine, and I'm yours. Is that enough?”
This is the story of a petty thief who pulled a cold-hearted crown prince down from his pedestal, only to be raised to the throne by him in turn.
Political intrigue, passion, flashing blades, and sweet pain galore.
Against all odds, the two powerhouses join hands, turning the court into a love letter and the realm into a bride price.
Turn to the first page and see how Jian Si turns his bluster into legend and spoils the “disgraced crown prince” into an emperor for the ages!
