The fifteenth year of Chongning.
Deep winter, heavy snow, the fifth watch.
Li Ping met Yan Guanlan for the first time, and it cost him his whole life.
Yan Guanlan, Crown Prince of the Qi Kingdom, led the Jingrong Army to pacify Beishuo. In Youlan Valley, he lured the enemy deep into the valley, only to be betrayed by his deputy general. With ambushes ahead and pursuers behind, he was trapped.
Helan Shan, the Northern Di commander, was debauched and licentious. Taken by Yan Guanlan's beauty, he did not kill him on the spot as agreed, but instead planned to use a love-making gu to make him his personal plaything.
With wind and snow filling the sky, Yan Guanlan beheaded Helan Shan. With only a man and a horse, he fought his way out of the encirclement and rode into the night.
At the break of dawn, as the last watch ended, he collapsed from exhaustion and fell from his horse. In the snowy wilderness, he met a hunter who reached out and gathered him into his arms.
A cold-blooded, heartless, pampered bottom
A meek, honest, long-suffering substitute top
All characters whose romantic feelings are directed toward the bottom are pure.
Content warnings:
Realistic setting. The bottom has wives, concubines, and children.
The bottom is an ancient person shaped by a feudal society, not a good person by modern standards. The enormous difference in status between him and the top will not change.
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