After My Good-for-Nothing Husband Stumbled into the Throne

A historical setting where same-sex marriage is legal | Two silly husbands' daily life surviving in the imperial palace | One-on-one romance | The whole country is pushing me and my husband to get off our lazy butts | Young husbands | Childhood friends

Chu Yu was a pretty child, but never the sharpest. He loved reading storybooks, devouring them from morning to night until his eyes were blurry.

His family doted on him, so they let him do as he pleased.

While staying with his maternal grandparents in Jiangnan, Chu Yu befriended Xiao Huaijin, the seventeenth prince, who had been deemed ill-omened and raised at a residence in Jiangnan.

Later, when Chu Yu came of age for marriage, the great aristocratic families all set their sights on him, the legitimate son of a duke's household. Chu Yu was so terrified that he did not dare leave the house.

Having read too many storybooks, Chu Yu worried that marrying into an aristocratic family would mean being stripped of his family's wealth, schemed against, forced into household battles, and tormented by his husband's family... He cherished his life! 😱

He confided his worries to Xiao Huaijin.

Xiao Huaijin said, "You can marry me!"

Xiao Huaijin said, "I'm royal, so I won't be poor enough to plunder your family's wealth. I'm a good-for-nothing who just wants to laze around, so nobody would marry me and force you into household battles. I'm too stupid to have any chance of fighting for the throne, so whichever of my elder brothers becomes emperor won't make life difficult for us. And we've known each other for ages, so we know each other inside out..."

Chu Yu was persuaded and agreed on the spot.

For the first two years after marrying Xiao Huaijin, they went bird-watching and admired flowers, played cards and slacked off, and traveled through the mountains and rivers. Every so often, they heard that someone at the palace had been demoted to commoner status. All in all, life was quite pleasant.

But in the fifth year of their marriage...

The first nine princes were dead, maimed, or demoted... After counting them all, it turned out that the only one who met the requirements to inherit the throne was the seventeenth prince, Xiao Huaijin.

Chu Yu was horrified: "I-I-I'm going to be empress?!"

Xiao Huaijin was despairing: "I-I-I'm going to be emperor?!"

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After the imperial edict arrived, the two were brought into the imperial palace and suddenly found themselves seated at the very top of the world.

By day, Xiao Huaijin was forced to handle political affairs he could not understand at all, while Chu Yu was forced to manage the harem, mediate all sorts of petty disputes, and guard against assassination and poisoning.

Their carefree days at the prince's residence were gone.

At night, the two husbands clung to each other and cried, complaining about their difficult life in the imperial palace. Whoever wanted to be empress or emperor could have the job!

"Husband, didn't you say I could laze around for the rest of my life if I married you? Why is the entire country forcing us to get off our lazy butts now?! 😭😭"

"Your husband has no idea either! 😭😭"

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The silly husbands always tried to figure out how to handle problems together in the middle of the night.

And then they'd come up with the perfect solution:

"Forget it. We'll leave it to fate."

Who could have imagined that at an age when he should have been enjoying his retirement, the Duke would suddenly become the emperor's father-in-law, advising his own son and son-in-law!

# Pretend fools, true slackers

# No obligation to get off your lazy butts

# Rare young husbands

Theme: Love.