The Beautiful Power Minister Only Wants to Be a Lazybones

Lin Qingmai transmigrates and gets some good news: he has a very high status. As the emperor's most trusted chief minister, he has plenty to eat and drink and lives in comfort.

The bad news is that he arrived just in time for the moment when he must choose sides and groom an heir to the throne.

Schemes and intrigues, deception and betrayal...

All he wants is to lie flat and be a pretty, useless couch potato!

To avoid political infighting, at a tea gathering that is really a trap, Lin Qingmai lets his gaze wander until it settles on a figure being reprimanded.

That's the one!

Lin Qingmai steps forward, ignoring the flattered, startled expression on the face before him. With a slender, snow-white fingertip, he gently lifts the chin of the person kneeling on the ground. His misty, alluring eyes narrow as he says lightly,

"Your Highness, Seventh Prince, will you come with me?"

The arrogant prince freezes. Everyone turns toward the voice in shock, even more incredulous when they see who is kneeling on the ground.

It is Xie Youning, the hostage who has just returned to court and the least favored of the emperor's sons, the Seventh Prince.

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Xie Youning's birth mother was merely a palace maid the emperor had once summoned on a whim. Naturally, as the son of a palace maid, he was never loved.

When negotiations were held with a foreign court, he was unsurprisingly chosen as a hostage.

Even after returning home, Xie Youning thought his life would amount to nothing more.

Until he met Lin Qingmai.

He raises his head. The renowned chief minister, famous throughout the land, smiles at him, eyes shining. A glimpse of spring shows through his loose collar, and his face is full of tender charm.

Xie Youning immediately takes his hand and says earnestly, "I will not let Teacher down!"

Lin Qingmai: Huh?

What did I expect of you?

Later, Lin Qingmai lies on the imperial bed, surrounded by layer upon layer of curtains, held tight in the arms of the new emperor like a treasured jewel protected by a dragon. Their hair is entwined and their skin pressed together, yet he is still completely bewildered.

Didn't he want to be an idle minister who retired behind the scenes? Why did this young man keep slaying anyone who stood in his way, saying, "How dare you look down on my teacher," until he fought his way to the throne?

In his confusion, the emperor behind him seems to wake. He nuzzles affectionately into the hollow of Lin Qingmai's neck, his voice hoarse and full of longing, with a trace of hidden grievance:

"Teacher... when will you agree to be my empress?"

"Now I finally have what it takes to stand by your side."

Lin Qingmai: Good grief.

He helplessly turns over and embraces this loyal puppy, cold and ruthless and full of schemes to everyone else, but always pouting and playing pitiful with him.

He thinks:

It's not like a couch potato can't be empress...

Right?

[Reader's Guide]

* One-on-one romance. The leads are each other's one and only in every way.

* A pampered, lazy couch-potato beauty on the bottom X a devoted, possessive wolfdog top who goes on a killing spree for his beloved.

* The top is utterly, hopelessly lovestruck: his beloved is his whole world, and he'll do everything in his power to seize the throne for him. The bottom is lovestruck in his own way, indulging his husband in whatever he wants to do.

* The political scheming is just make-believe. Mostly, it's a sweet couple being lovey-dovey, with some satisfying domination of the whole realm on the side.

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