Featuring the classic “chasing his wife to the crematorium” trope and a dramatic identity reversal.
The aloof county magistrate personally cast this “lowly male concubine” into an abyss, thinking he had removed an inconvenient pawn. He never knew that the man was the only light in his life.
Later, he went mad, searching for him everywhere.
It was only after the new emperor ascended the throne that he discovered the plaything he had once controlled at will in his own residence had become a ruthless tyrant seated upon the imperial throne.
In the great hall, he kowtowed three times and bowed nine times, begging the man on the throne to look at him once more.
This blurb hits the heart of what fans of the “chasing his wife to the crematorium” trope love.
Keywords like “personally cast him into an abyss,” “went mad,” and “kowtowed and bowed, begging for one look” vividly portray the seme Xiao Ce’s remorse and humility, fully delivering the angsty treatment readers expect for the dominant lead.
At the same time, the dramatic shift in status from “male concubine” to “tyrant” promises the intense payoff of the later story.
