Your Highness, Stay Back! I'm Just a Little Taoist!

Scheming regent x free-spirited young Taoist + doting romance + multiple couples and an ensemble cast

There are plenty of foreshadowed twists and satisfying moments, so take your time and enjoy!

The all-powerful regent receives a “grand gift”: a handsome young man.

Qiao Manyue, the illegitimate second son of the prime minister’s household, grew up in a Taoist temple. Thanks to his modest medical skills, he’s lived quite comfortably.

But his father and brothers use him as a scapegoat and send him to the regent’s residence, a place that terrifies every official in the land!

Fine clothes, delicious food, servants at my beck and call? I’m not becoming a caged bird!

I’m a master of all sorts of skills. I’ll be off to roam the world!

“Where are you off to, A-Yue?” Chu Zhao sits sideways on the eaves, looking down at him.

The timid Yue looks up with a fawning smile. “Y-Your Highness, it’s windy up there. Please take care of your health…”

Chu Zhao’s gaze lingers on the young man’s delicate features, his eyes darkening. “It is a little windy. Come take my pulse.”

“My medical skills are nothing compared to the imperial physicians. You’re a dragon among men…”

“Hey, hey, hey! Your Highness, my bundle! Ah! Chu Zhao, Chu Zhao, put me down! I’m dizzy~”

Carrying the light-footed young man, he sweeps into the bedchamber. His sleeve brushes past, the doors slam shut, and only the corridor lanterns are left swaying…

…

“Ch-Chu Zhao, are you a dog?” The young man pants, sounding utterly exhausted. “I’m done. Let me go! I want to go back to my temple!”

“Hah!” the man scoffs. “What temple? I burned it down ages ago!”

“Chu Zhao, you bastard! Believe me, one day… I’ll poison you to death!”

“You’d better poison me to death right now…”

“Chu Zhao, A-Zhao, I was wrong… You still have to go to court tomorrow!”

“Court? I can skip it…”

“Mmph!”