[Double male protagonists | Forbearing Emperor × Qing Leng Emperor]
Xiao Jingheng, the fifth son of the late emperor, pretended to be a fool for fourteen years when he was young to avoid the Queen Mother's sharp influence. Once he seized the throne, he became the young emperor above all others. Shen Ji followed the late emperor's orders to teach him and protect him. He only regarded him as a student, a monarch, and a country that he must protect.
But Xiao Jingheng has been hiding his feelings for more than ten years and finally refuses to hide them anymore.
The court urged him to establish a middle palace. In order to protect his name, Shen Ji personally handed over the memorial to the emperor, but he also pushed himself into eternal doom. The monarch and his ministers broke up and had a cold war for several months. It was not until the rainy night when they were about to say goodbye that he finally understood: What he was reluctant to part with was never just the entrustment entrusted by the late emperor.
Later, they worked side by side to rectify the court situation and stabilize the country. Above the court, they were kings and ministers through the ages; under the ever-burning lamp, they stayed together for the rest of their lives.
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Xiao Jingheng had deep feelings accumulated over more than ten years, and was active and magnanimous, but never forced; Shen Ji slowly wavered, retreated, and suffered from the etiquette of teachers, students, monarchs, and ministers, and finally admitted his feelings.
Overall, it's not a passionate and straightforward love, but a gentler one.
(There is also relatively little Machiavellian content because the author cannot write)
