Gender Transformation | Historical Romance | Alternate World | Harem | Scheming Prince
Li Yu is a modern good-for-nothing who is hopeless at everything except eating.
He wakes up in an alternate dynasty, having become a puppet child emperor disguised as a boy, with powerful ministers ready to kill him at any moment.
A hellish start. To stay alive, Li Yu decides to stick to his good-for-nothing persona: play dumb, act clueless, and never cause trouble.
But he never imagined that his “lying flat” survival strategy would land him squarely in the bad graces of Pei Ji, the ruthless and vicious regent who holds the entire court in his grasp.
Other people play political games at court with brains and cunning. Li Yu plays by “not understanding a word,” “being scared witless,” and “Your servant is hungry.”
Pei Ji assumes he has raised a harmless good-for-nothing whom he can crush whenever he pleases.
But little by little, he discovers that the young emperor’s clear, innocent eyes drive him mad, and his soft, sweet nature can easily set his tightly wound nerves on edge.
“Is Your Majesty pretending to be foolish again?” Pei Ji pins him against the imperial bed, his gaze dark.
“I’m not... I just want braised pork.” Li Yu’s eyes turn red, his expression pitiful.
Pei Ji thinks he has merely developed a desire to control this “harmless prey.” Even if the other person is a man, he accepts it.
Then one day, an accident leads him to tear away the layers of white cloth himself, revealing the emperor’s true sex. In that moment, the madness and beastly nature suppressed for years in the regent’s heart burst free.
“Your Majesty is quite the talent. You’ve deceived me for so long.”
Since you insist on playing dumb, then from now on, Your Majesty will do as I say in this imperial bed.
