The gentle and jade-like crybaby champion VS the evil, infatuated and neurotic emperor
In order to repay her kindness and avenge her family, Shen Shiyue was willing to take the scientific examination and become an official, working as an undercover agent for King Shuofang, lurking beside the emperor.
He calculated every step accurately, including seducing the Nine-Five Lord to fall in love with him.
But the only thing I didn't calculate correctly was that I was the first to be tempted. After Shen Shiyue and Xiao Qixing's ridiculous night, Prince Yin Zhi was furious: "I asked you to be an undercover agent! Did you lie down on his bed?"
On the day when the lie was exposed, the infatuated emperor heard with his own ears how his lover sacrificed his life for others. Xiao Qixing didn't cry, he just said "I don't want to play anymore." And jumped off the cliff.
He was left alone in those cold five years, eighteen hundred days and nights. He searched like crazy. When he found it, the man was wearing a red wedding robe and was about to marry someone else and become his queen.
He acted like a fool and was extremely humble: "I don't want a status, as long as I can stay with His Majesty, even if I am a concubine..."
But even if he was in the outer chamber, the emperor didn't want him. Shen Shiyue finally panicked, and the former aloof number one scholar knelt down and begged him to come back.
"If you're not allowed to be an outsider, then you can be a dog. It's okay to be a dog. Don't let me go..."