[Younger man x faux siblings x comedic court drama]
[Gentle, powerful, nationally acclaimed royal nursery teacher x gloomy, unhinged emperor who wants to have his brother-in-law sold off every day]
"Have you heard? The child of Princess Lizheng is looking more and more like His Majesty!"
"A nephew takes after his maternal uncle. What's so strange about that?!"
"Are you confused? Our emperor and the princess aren't even blood siblings!!!"
Li Yuan thought she knew her no-account younger brother inside and out.
She never expected him to grow more and more unhinged with every passing day, as events spiraled beyond her control.
On her wedding night, Li Yuan sat quietly by the bed, waiting in vain for her husband.
A slender hand with clearly defined knuckles slipped beneath her veil.
The face that appeared was all too familiar.
"Sister..." Li Hao's fingertips brushed her lips, smearing her red lipstick.
Li Yuan's scalp prickled. She sprang to her feet.
"Are you crazy?! I'm your sister!"
"I know..."
Li Hao drew her into his arms, smiling as he whispered in her ear:
"But, Sister, your husband can't do it. I can..."
From then on, Li Yuan kept things strictly professional with her younger brother. She avoided him whenever possible and never met him in private outside of official business.
But then the young emperor, who had never cared about gossip, suddenly summoned her to the palace.
The bedchamber was in disarray, with broken porcelain scattered across the floor.
His eyes were bloodshot, as though he might swallow her whole, yet he still smiled as he asked:
"Sister, why didn't you bring the child to the palace so I could see?"
Li Yuan was the Princess of Nan'an, and her luck was disastrous from the start:
Her late father had helped the emperor claim the throne, so the old emperor bestowed the royal surname upon her and granted her the title of Grand Princess Lizheng, treating her as his own daughter and raising her at his side from childhood.
But her good fortune did not last. The old emperor died, leaving her a newly founded dynasty that was both poor and imperiled, a group of founding ministers with conflicting agendas, and a teenage boy who pretended to be cold and ruthless.
If she couldn't escape and couldn't run, she might as well join them.
Three years later, the notorious names of Grand Princess An and the young emperor had spread throughout the land. People called them the "Doomed Siblings."
Then there were the three treacherous ministers chosen by the siblings:
The top scholar was a fraud, the third-place scholar was a fool, and the second-place scholar was a bastard.
There was no shortage of weirdos of every stripe.
And somehow this rabble managed to breathe life into the crumbling kingdom of Nan'an. Can you believe how infuriating that is?
1. Ensemble cast, thrilling
2. Faux siblings
Theme: Even a makeshift team should strive to improve
