What Should I Do When I'm at Odds With the One I Love?

Blurb

Pei Tinghe is a lazy, dissolute young master. One distant glance from across the bridge is all it takes for him to decide to rescue a beauty in distress.

A flower falls into Shen Jize's lap. What a pity: he's a fool.

The candlelight inside the room is dim, illuminating the beauty's face.

Pei Tinghe teases him. “What? Am I not as good as him?”

Shen Jize pauses, then nods very seriously.

Pei Tinghe can't believe it. He locks the man in his arms and holds up one finger. “How many is this?”

The beauty answers, “Two.”

Pei Tinghe laughs in exasperation. Beautiful, to be sure, but what a pity: he's blind.

[Content warnings]

1. Both leads are sexually exclusive. If the top isn't, he can look forward to being thrown into a pig cage.

2. This is a fictional setting. I can't write political intrigue; I'm just having fun.

3. The top falls in love at first sight. I can't write clever characters, so he just plays dumb.

4. I keep calling him “the beauty” at first because that's the top's perspective, and he doesn't know the name yet. I'm not genderbending him.

Theme: Whatever the world says about righteous and demonic factions, I will never let go of your hand