Disguised as a Man: The Unhinged Powerbroker’s Daily Self-Conquest

The Great Zhou Dynasty's terrifyingly unhinged Ninth Prince, Xiao Hechuan, is ordered to conceal his identity and infiltrate the Cold Cases Division of the Dali Temple under the alias of an impoverished low-ranking clerk.

There he meets Yan Li, a male colleague who also got in through connections.

Yan Li is greedy, timid, and too weak to lift a finger, yet he's blessed with red lips and pearly white teeth, and smiles at everyone he meets.

Xiao Hechuan despises such a delicate, affected pretty boy.

Until the two are forced to share a bed and investigate a cold case together

To sneak a look at the files, Yan Li crosses the line in the middle of the night and quietly reaches for his waist.

Xiao Hechuan lies there pretending to sleep, his ears burning as he howls inwardly, “He really does want my face! Fine, if he begs me hard enough, I suppose I could give in…”

From then on, Xiao Hechuan sees everyone as trying to seduce his live-in roommate. The fearsome, unhinged powerbroker winds up driving himself into a jealous frenzy every day, convinced he's become a “broken-sleeve.”

The two keep their guard up and probe each other relentlessly.

Until the day disaster strikes and they are both forced into a desperate corner

Yan Li beheads an enemy general with a single slash. Her hairpin shatters and her long hair cascades down, while her breathtaking, murderous aura stuns the entire battlefield!

And Xiao Hechuan, whom she'd always been wary of as an impoverished clerk, summons three thousand Imperial Guards and pins her hard against a bloodstained wall, his eyes red-rimmed:

“Well, well, Yan Li. So you're a woman.”

“You tricked me into thinking I was in love with a man. How are you going to make it up to me?!”

Yan Zhili: …I know this might be hard to believe, but I only just found out you're the Ninth Prince too.