Your Majesty, Please Stop Flirting

Ongoing

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Brother, Why Are You Like This: He rode a horse as a child, and when he grew up, his brother rode a horse too.

The End After Someone Else Ascended for Me: After someone else ascended on my behalf, I was tortured a thousand times over.

[This synopsis is written in first person; the main story is in third person.]

I, Su Qingyan, was a public relations director who'd been worked to the bone in my previous life. Now I'd been transmigrated into a cannon-fodder spy sent to keep an eye on the emperor.

I started the job after being poisoned!

KP | Breakdown: Survive by writing His Majesty's Weekly Observation Report. Six months later, the difficulty level goes up: surveillance ends, assassination begins. If the emperor doesn't die, I do!

On my first day at work, I discovered that the palace scheming was more cutthroat than ever.

From the eunuchs to the sweeping maids to the chief imperial physician, every single one seemed to work in the same field as me.

And my target, the sickly young emperor Gu Beichen, seemed as gentle as a white lotus.

While scolding myself for being too saintly, I couldn't help slipping him a note: "Your Majesty, here's how you can handle this..."

Until he coughed lightly and gave the poisoned wine I'd handed him to his political enemy. "My dear minister, do you think he should drink it?"

My professional instincts screamed: That isn't a white lotus, it's a man-eating flower!

And the mission kept veering further and further off course. He was always flirting with me, openly and in secret, making my straight man's heart skip all over the place.

Good grief! Any more of this and I'll turn gay!

To stay alive, I put my professional skills to use and became His Majesty's PR consultant, working myself to the bone.

-Image management: Rebrand his coughing up blood and wheezing as "concern for the nation and virtue that moves heaven."

-Event marketing: Plan the "Emperor's Spring Plowing" and have artists perfectly capture his profile as he "cares for farming," making it a hit across the capital.

The prince was breathing down my neck, so I started padding my reports:

"His Majesty is frail and unfit for much." (In reality: He stayed up reviewing memorials until three in the morning.)

"His Majesty is timid and cannot command the people's respect." (In reality: He'd just executed a spy.)

I thought I was a brilliant actor, until the palace was attacked. I took a fatal sword blow for him, only to see a fleeting smile at the corner of his lips.

He'd long known I would save him.

When I awoke from my serious injuries, he personally fed me medicine, his voice irresistible. "Su Qingyan, why did you save me?"

I smiled weakly. "Professional ethics don't allow me to let a client get into trouble."

He leaned close, his breath scorching as his lips brushed mine. "Then I'll hire you for life, and put you in charge of protecting me."

Well! Now I'm completely gay.

Later, after the prince was defeated, he laughed viciously in the imperial prison. "The poison has no cure!"

But Gu Beichen slipped a pill into my mouth. "I lied. The poison was cured long ago. Chu Moran is no ordinary physician. As for the consequences of breaking our agreement... you experienced them last night."

When he went to court the next morning, I woke up in the imperial bed, rubbed my sore waist, and opened a hidden compartment. Inside my PR strategy notebook, I found an old note in his vermilion ink:

"This young man has the talent to govern the world and has not lost his good nature. I can recruit him in time."

And on another page, in his newly written, tender script:

"I offer you the empire as a bride price. May you remain by my side forever."

#From a spy who could be killed at any moment to the one he helped raise to the empress's throne#

#My Client, the Emperor, and I Are Together for Good#

Please note:

[The male lead is no saint] He's calculating and profoundly scheming, a master chess player.

[The protagonist is a workaholic] He relies on his looks, brains, and professional skills to survive palace politics.

[High-pressure from the start] Fast-paced, full of twists, with plenty of sweet moments in daily life.

Theme: Turn danger into opportunity