Emperor Wen of Wei’s Taste for Brooding Young Men

Check out my next upcoming novel, [The Empress Dowager's Lover], a pure-hate story where the male official consort becomes the third party. The blurb is at the very end.

Cao Cao picked up a pretty little girl on the battlefield and thought it would be nice if she could keep A Pi company.

"A Pi, from today on, she's your little sister. Don't bully her."

When Cao Pi met Zhen Yufu, there was an uncanny air of mutual understanding between them.

"Oh." Cao Pi replied coldly, expressionless. He didn't expose her identity as a daughter of the Zhen family.

"Why do you call my big brother Ang, but call me Cao Pi?"

"You spend all day with A Zhi, so I thought you two had more to talk about."

"Father and Mother have always wanted a thoughtful daughter like you. Everyone likes you."

...Cao Pi was gloomier than any normal person, Zhen Yufu thought to herself.

He was stubborn, but also clingy.

He had a bad temper, but was blessed with a face of extraordinary beauty.

By the time Yufu realized that Cao Pi's gloomy, obsessive possessiveness and all-consuming love had become uncontrollable, she understood that she had made a terrible mistake.

She had held his hand, embraced him, and kissed him. She had enjoyed sharing the things lovers did with him, but had never intended to marry him.

At the Lantern Festival, on the night of prayers, Yufu smiled with an innocent, naive air.

"Second Brother, have you heard of Yuan Xi? I'll tell only you: he's going to be my future husband."

Cao Pi couldn't understand why two people who kissed, embraced, and loved each other couldn't become husband and wife.

Why could a relationship end as soon as just one person changed their mind?

Their romance came to an abrupt end. They each married someone else and went their separate ways.

Only three years later, Cao Cao's army conquered Ye City, and Cao Pi finally set foot once more in the place where Yufu lived.

He thought he could never be moved by Yufu again.

But when he saw her dressed as a married woman, her figure frail, forced by the Yuan family to kneel before him, her eyes red and her expression pitiful,

Cao Pi felt himself falling for her all over again, no wiser than when he was young.

In front of the Yuan family's relatives, Cao Pi placed a hand on Zhen Yufu's face and personally helped her sit beside him. "Yufu, you've suffered. If you're still willing to acknowledge me as your brother..."

An older brother can be a husband, too.

First her second brother, then her husband.

1. Based on Cao Pi and Zhen Mi, with an added pseudo-sibling premise. They are 16 and 15 at the beginning. The romance is the main focus, while historical events are just the backdrop.

2. The second male lead is Yuan Xi, a reborn version. He's a scheming older man pretending to be the second male lead.

3. There are misunderstandings between them, and the heroine is affected by a love spell. There may be a little angst in the middle.

4. Readers looking for an older-sister/younger-brother relationship or a bad ending can check out my other upcoming novel, [Reborn on the Night the Emperor Granted Me Poisoned Wine].

[The Empress Dowager's Lover]

One-line pitch: After transmigrating into my wife's ex-boyfriend's body, I discovered that my wife really doesn't love me.

Qi Yingyao was a young emperor. After ascending the throne, he made the Crown Princess Wei, with whom he shared a deeply devoted relationship, his empress.

In the second year of his reign, their first child was born, and Qi Yingyao immediately made their son crown prince.

"Hanchai, in this life, I will have no one but you." At the height of his passion, the man made his solemn vow, promising to keep the imperial harem empty for her.

Wei, holding their newborn baby, was embraced by Qi Yingyao. For the first time, he felt what it was like to have a home.

In the fifth year of his reign, the young General Shang returned victorious. Qi Yingyao was delighted by their great victory over the Northern Di, and because a daughter of the Shang family had entered the palace as a consort, he granted the general permission to visit her in the palace whenever he wished.

But every time Shang Hengyu visited the rear palace, it turned out he wasn't visiting his sister. He was visiting Empress Wei in Kunning Palace.

Only then did Qi Yingyao realize that his empress had long loved someone else.

Shang Hengyu and she had been childhood friends and pledged themselves to each other long ago. If not for the late emperor's decree, they would already be husband and wife.

He should depose the empress and have her confined, strip her of her title and send her away.

He should bring the lovers together.

Qi Yingyao died in his early forties. But why, when he opened his eyes again, had his soul transmigrated into Shang Hengyu's body?

The new emperor ascended the throne and urgently summoned the young General Shang to the capital, intending to grant him a noble title and high office.

Qi Yingyao didn't have to guess. This had to be the doing of the current empress dowager, the empress he had personally deposed, his beloved Hanchai.

"My love, you never had feelings for the late emperor. You've been waiting for me all these years, haven't you?"

Faced with her former lover's tearful question, Wei Hanchai nodded.

Qi Yingyao looked at his wife, showing such longing for the first time, being so bold and seductive in bed for the first time, clinging to her so desperately for the first time...

Qi Yingyao was skilled at being an emperor, and just as skilled at being a minister, a lover in the empress dowager's bedchamber.

When he discovered that Shang Hengyu had secretly amassed troops and intended to rebel, the taut string inside him finally snapped.

"Hanchai, your taste is terrible. The man you've been longing for only sees you as a pawn, a tool!"

He deliberately let the empress dowager discover the Shang family's dirty secrets.

He would wait for his beloved to personally drive a knife into the heart of her former lover.

Theme: This life, I will be happy