Cousin, I Want to Rule Alongside the Emperor!

(The full manuscript is complete, so you can count on this not being abandoned. The characters are cousins.)

The main story is told in third person.

When I was seventeen, my homeland fell, and I became the ruler of a fallen kingdom.

But I wasn't sad, because the new ruler was my cousin, Lan Du.

He granted titles and fiefs, and treated my people well. I barely felt the pain of losing my country.

So much so that I kept dreaming about him. In my dreams, he shed his mask of a good older brother, clung to me relentlessly, and took me again and again, never satisfied.

When I woke, I would think of his beautiful, peach-blossom-like face, and shamelessly slip my hand beneath the covers.

Later, I got what I wanted and became pregnant with his child.

I was so pleased with myself. I would follow the example of the ancients: gain status through my child, and rule alongside him as a co-emperor.

Lan Du agreed with a smile.

I wanted my mother to live with us, but he said he wanted some privacy with me.

I wanted to learn how to govern, so he handed me an erotic book and murmured in my ear, making my cheeks burn and my heart race.

I asked to attend court, and he brought out an elaborate wedding outfit, coaxing me to try it on from morning until night. Then he sighed that such a vulgar thing wasn't worthy of my beauty.

A month later, I had attended court three times and reviewed eleven memorials, but I was so tired my eyelids kept drooping.

I simply put down my vermilion brush and settled in to care for the baby.

I had a husband who cherished me and a child soon to be born. I might be the luckiest and happiest person in the world.

Then disaster struck, and I awakened to memories of my past life.

In my dream there was a vengeful ghost. He destroyed my Qi Kingdom and imprisoned my family. My relatives either died or went mad. The ghost casually brushed their blood off himself, his expression calm and indifferent.

Later, in order to save my family, I knelt at his feet and begged like a dog, becoming a male concubine he could trample at will.

He forced himself on me in front of a crowd, mocking and humiliating me as he crushed every last bit of my dignity.

The whole country condemned me as a ruinous seductress, blaming every disaster and calamity in Chu on the king's favoring me.

The vengeful ghost in my dream had the same beautiful face as Lan Du.

In this life, he wrapped his cruelty in a layer of sugar, and I foolishly swallowed it.

Lan Du smiled gently, but I was so afraid I turned cold all over. That was when I realized:

My mother was being kept as a hostage under Lan Du's protection. I had the title of regent, but no real power. I was a canary in Lan Du's golden cage, whose wings he could break whenever he pleased.

I didn't want to be a caged bird, so I fled a hundred li away, my belly swollen with child.

But when I saw elite soldiers searching for me across the mountains, I knew I couldn't escape.

Back on Lan Du's bed, I ignored the chain gleaming coldly beside the pillow, threw myself into his arms with red eyes, and cried that I'd suffered too much out there and never wanted to leave him again.

Lan Du lowered his head. His damp, chilly gaze brushed over my cheek, gradually warming.

"Then never leave your older brother again."

He picked up a fertility pill and gently pressed it between my lips. "Chengzhi, let's have a few more children, all right?"

I leaned against him, obediently swallowed the pill, and nodded.

"All right."

Since I can't escape, then we'll torment each other in this golden cage until our hair turns white.

Brooding, sinister ghost of an older brother x beautiful, innocent fool in the beginning, brooding widow-ghost in the later part

Reading Guide:

1. Brooding brothers, body and heart belong only to each other.

2. The synopsis is in first person; the main story is in third person.

3. Early on, the top mentally controls the bottom, conditioning his mind and body into a complete submissive. Later, the top is tortured until he's reduced to ashes.

4. The bottom is widowed young and raises a child. A deliciously wicked little widower.

5. Many people covet the beautiful fool or little widower. The top is a fox spirit who tempts his younger brother. Let the rivalry and catfights begin!!!

6. Both are reborn. Pregnancy and childbirth story.

7. More details to come.

Theme: Firmly resist emotional manipulation