Your Highness, Men Can't Be Crown Princesses

Pretending-and-performing bottom vs. an ever-testing top

Reborn, Xiao Zhai (the cause)

Everyone in the palace knows that the second son of the Xiao family is a good-for-nothing. Even the lowliest eunuchs dare to kick him around.

Xiao Zhai has been at the Crown Prince's side since he was four. Officially, he is the prince's study companion. In truth, he is confined to the Eastern Palace to keep the Xiao and Chen families from rebelling.

As he grows up, the Crown Prince's gaze grows more and more desirous. Realizing something is wrong, he has only one thought: escape!

However, the Emperor senses the Crown Prince's strange behavior in advance. Xiao Zhai thinks he is doomed, but unexpectedly receives the Emperor's help to escape the Eastern Palace.

Why did the Emperor help him?

Having gained a new life through a fake death, he has no time to think it through. He goes into hiding, but fate has other plans: the Crown Prince "accidentally" discovers that he has "come back from the dead."

In the end, he dies bearing a grudge after being tortured by the Crown Prince.

But Heaven gives him another chance. He is reborn, yet at the moment of his rebirth, someone else has already taken over his body. He watches the other person use his body to curry favor with the Crown Prince, and he hates it.

His anger builds. He is determined to kill the Crown Prince, then die together with the person occupying his body.

But the other person tells him he only wants to go home and will help him!

Help him?

Kill the Crown Prince?

His rational mind tells him it's impossible!

Transmigrate, Xiao Yihe (bottom)

He steps into thin air, and when he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated into the body of the Crown Prince's study companion.

No memories of the original owner, no System notifications, only the scrutiny and contempt of the people around him.

Other transmigrators get the original owner's memories, but his mind is a blank. He can only figure things out for himself.

At least his status isn't low, though in practice he's inferior to everyone at every turn.

He screams inwardly: How is this fair??

The first time he meets the Crown Prince, someone dies because of him.

He is beaten with a rod until the victim is bloody and mangled, showing him how cheap human life is in this era and how hard it is to survive in the palace.

To stay alive, he can only keep his head down.

But! The Crown Prince's gaze... sticky, scorching, almost stringy, makes his skin crawl.

He immediately concludes that the Crown Prince is gay, absolutely!!!

This world is far too terrifying. He has to go home.

So!

When the Crown Prince tries to cuddle up to him, he immediately says, "No way!"

When the Crown Prince gets angry, he quickly bats his eyes and acts hurt.

When the Crown Prince wants his heart, he pretends to offer it up, saying, "It's all yours, Your Highness..."

He has to keep acting, pretend to be smitten and in love, so the Crown Prince will let his guard down and he can find a way home.

But the more he acts, the more he loses his heart.

And what's more, the original owner suddenly awakens and declares that he will die together with him!

Great! He can't get home, and now his "other self" wants to kill him.

What kind of hell difficulty is this!!!

Love out of reach, Zhao Chen (top)

Xiao Zhai hates him. Zhao Chen knows...

Xiao Zhai resents him. Zhao Chen knows that, too...

And Zhao Chen can even see that Xiao Zhai is starting to want him dead...

Watching Xiao Zhai rack his brains trying to escape his world, only to keep going around in circles, he finds it amusing, even entertaining.

After all, this is one of the few games (and connections) he shares with Xiao Zhai.

At last, Xiao Zhai pushes himself so hard that he falls into an unbreakable sleep.

When he wakes, there are a pair of hazy, innocent eyes.

He says softly, "I don't remember."

Hah! What trick is he playing now?

He doesn't believe him. He tests him again and again, closing in step by step.

He is determined to expose Xiao Zhai's "amnesia" act, then watch him fly into an embarrassed rage.

But the more he tests him, the more unsettled Zhao Chen becomes.

Behind his frail appearance lies an unyielding spirit. At last, Zhao Chen is certain that Xiao Zhai is different from before.

The old Xiao Zhai was a rabbit full of murderous intent.

But this one is a tiger concealing his true motives.

For once, Zhao Chen can't understand him.

Yet this liveliness moves him more than the hatred ever did.

So mysterious is he that no matter how much trouble he causes, Zhao Chen can't help falling for him, unable to control himself.

Until Zhao Chen learns that Xiao Zhai isn't Xiao Zhai at all, but an outsider: Xiao Yihe!

That day...

Xiao Yihe tells him he loves him, with a love he has never shown before, then disappears from his world.

The body will eventually be returned to Xiao Zhai, but Zhao Chen can never embrace that body again.

Until he crosses through time and space...

Theme: Above all else, staying alive matters most.