A devoted, brilliant, powerful strategist of a top x a powerful, worldly-wise innocent with a chivalrous heart of a bottom
As a child, Xiao Qiyu, the emperor’s eldest son, lived in the Eastern Palace. The court and the people alike recognized him as the heir apparent, and he was showered with favor and countless gifts.
Once, a white jade longevity lock was presented to the Eastern Palace. It was said to ward off calamity and misfortune. But at the time, Xiao Qiyu was too innocent to believe he had any calamity to ward off or misfortune to avoid, so he returned it to his father. Hearing that the Grand Preceptor’s household had a frail, sickly young master, he casually gave it to him.
And so the longevity lock came to rest around Shen Huan’s neck.
From the day he put it on, the frail young master, who should have died young, managed to survive one year after another...
1; “Shen Huan, you look like a ghost.”
“An enticing ghost?”
2; “Your Highness, you’re the one with the destiny of an emperor. You’re the one who should sit on that throne. Shall I help you seize it?”
“Shen Huan, you know me. I want to claim it by right.”
3; “May your journey be safe, A Huan, and may you live a long life.”
“Qiyu, has anyone ever told you that you’re insane?”
“You’re the only one who says that. Xie Linzhou and the others all say I have the heart of a bodhisattva.”
[Strategist top, emperor bottom, younger love interest, growing top, growing bottom, mutual salvation, both devoted to each other, happy ending, fated connection, obsessive devotion, longevity lock that prolongs life, historical political intrigue]
