The Frail Prince Keeps Trying to Seduce Me

[Seemingly aloof but secretly passionate general gong × seemingly gentle but truly scheming prince shou]

Gu Congzhuo came from a distinguished family and was born into privilege. His mother was the eldest princess, an adoptive sister sworn to the current emperor, and his father was the Duke of Zhenguo, who had helped the emperor claim the throne.

He should have grown up surrounded by wealth and luxury, but he was born with a rebellious streak and swore to bring peace to the borderlands.

The court was a tangled web of intrigue, but Gu Congzhuo cared only about the foreign tribes invading Shuobei. It wasn't until his parents were ambushed and killed in a plot, and both his friend and he died on the battlefield, that he realized he was merely a cannon-fodder side character in a storybook. Every parting and death had simply paved the way for the protagonist gong to ascend the throne.

He left the capital as a child and joined the army as a teenager. His parents died, he was killed unjustly. Twenty-four years, all glossed over in a few strokes.

Gu Congzhuo thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he found himself back three years in the past.

His parents had yet to fall into the trap, and his closest friend was still alive. Gu Congzhuo quickly settled affairs in the north and immediately sent a memorial to the emperor requesting permission to return to the capital

to settle the score with the protagonist gong.

On his way back to the capital, Gu Congzhuo passed through a dense forest that blotted out the sky and unexpectedly rescued a poor soul being hunted by assassins.

The poor man's legs couldn't bear his weight. His slight frame lay sprawled in the snow, his jade crown fallen off and his collar hanging loose. Even as he propped himself up, his waist trembled, and Gu Congzhuo had to lift him onto a horse.

That night, however, Gu Congzhuo dreamed that this poor soul was none other than Shen Lin'an, the third prince. Before the protagonist gong took the throne, Shen Lin'an had plotted to abduct the protagonist shou and, on his own, successfully surrounded and killed them both.

The first time, the second time, the third time...

After returning to the capital, Gu Congzhuo kept running into this mysterious third prince, and was dragged into one “accident” after another.

He accidentally discovered that Shen Lin'an was skilled in medicine, accidentally learned that he was the owner of Banyue Fang, the largest intelligence house in the Ghost Market, accidentally became sworn brothers with him, and accidentally cured his legs...

Then he suddenly realized that Shen Lin'an seemed to have been plotting against him for a long time.

Bonus scene:

Shen Lin'an had never considered himself a noble, upright gentleman.

On the contrary, he was best at making careful plans and taking things one step at a time. Even though his reunion with the man he loved had happened under such humiliating circumstances, he was confident he could turn things around.

So he went to great lengths to help his beloved investigate cases, disguise themselves and travel south, fight their way out of an assassination attempt, and plunge into an underground river...

But when his beloved proposed that they become sworn brothers, Shen Lin'an could no longer suppress his resentment. While the man was poisoned and blind, he tricked him into wearing wedding clothes and going through the wedding rites with him.

Later, when his intentions were exposed and unrest erupted on the border, his beloved insisted on leaving the capital. Shen Lin'an tried every way he could think of to make him stay, but nothing worked. In the end, he had no choice but to let him go.

He thought that was probably the last time they would ever meet. But when news spread that Shen Lin'an was going to marry, the man he had failed to keep by his side rode for three days and nights, covering eight hundred li from Shuobei to stand before him.

His beloved looked at him and asked in a low voice

“Lin'an, are you rejecting me because you plan to seduce me and then abandon me?”

Reader's guide:

1. The story is gong-focused! Gong-focused! 70% anti-piracy, 72-hour delay~

2. The plot features court intrigue and mystery-solving, and it won't be skimped on!

3. Early on, the gong uncovers the shou's secret identity and relentlessly tests him. Later, the gong runs away and the shou chases him. The gong won't get away even if he grows wings~

Theme: Love can overcome any hardship or obstacle.