After the Deposed Crown Prince Married Me

Recommending my upcoming historical danmei novel, "The Tenth Year After the Villain's Death." Blurb at the very bottom

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Violent, ruthless deposed crown prince seme x laid-back fortune-telling senior brother uke

Xie Zhen'an is the youngest senior brother in the reclusive School of Divination's history. With a character as bright and noble as the moon, he has no equal and is the undisputed leader of the new generation.

They say the School of Divination can calculate the destiny of emperors above and all manner of worldly affairs below.

And Xie Zhen'an has mastered the art so thoroughly that he can even predict whether the cats behind the sect's mountain will have male or female kittens!

Every day, he wakes up to play with the cats and take his junior brothers for walks, then waters the flowers and teaches his junior sisters. Xie Zhen'an lives a carefree life, until an imperial decree is rushed to the mountain gate at top speed:

His childhood betrothed, who was supposed to have died young, has crawled back from the battlefield.

Xie Zhen'an was so startled that he dropped his melon seeds.

But an imperial order cannot be defied. To keep his sect from being implicated, Xie Zhen'an is forced to pack a small bundle and hurry to the capital in the dead of night, where he is to marry the disgraced crown prince as his wife.

His wife may be taller than him, stronger than him, and able to beat three of him with one punch.

But he can tell fortunes!

On their wedding night, Xie Zhen'an kneels nervously and respectfully by the bed, declaring his loyalty:

"If you do not disdain me, Your Highness, I am willing to serve as your strategist!"

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Xiao Chi is the legitimate son of the late empress, but the emperor never favored him. The moment he turned fourteen, he was sent to the frontier.

After six years of fighting, he died in battle, and the whole empire celebrated.

The emperor happily appointed a new crown prince, while Xiao Chi was forgotten among the piles of corpses.

Until a little immortal happened upon him and pulled him out of the mountain of bodies and sea of blood.

The boy was so beautiful and ethereal that he really did look like a living immortal. Muttering about earning merit for his betrothed who had died young, he saved Xiao Chi's life.

Xiao Chi thought he was utterly vile.

Someone had saved him, yet he wanted to drag that person down into the mud and stain him thoroughly.

But the little immortal soon left his life, and Xiao Chi could only cut off his longing and return from the frontier to the capital.

To take revenge, he falsely accused himself of crimes and accepted the reputation of being violent and ruthless, yet he still aroused suspicion and was forced to "marry" a man.

On their wedding night, he entered the bridal chamber with a dagger.

There he found the little immortal he had yearned for, kneeling by the bed and looking up at him with luminous eyes.

1. Neither protagonist is a traditional good person.

2. The deposed crown prince is the seme and the senior brother is the uke. Don't get them mixed up, friends!

3. Haven't thought of anything yet, just reserving this spot for now~

Blurb screenshot dated 2026.6.19

-- "The Tenth Year After the Villain's Death" --

Also known as: My Fake Dad's Moonlight Became My Wife.

Reclusive, cold-hearted young prince x frivolous, dissolute great villain

Ji Wang is the sect master of Lin'an Gate, willful and unconventional.

They say his medicine can bring bones back to life and his poisons can kill ten thousand people. His looks are peerless and his beauty unparalleled, but sadly, he suffers from a chronic illness and has little time left to live.

After dying, he opens his eyes to find himself reborn ten years after his death, as Ji Fuyin, a pitiful hostage from a small Western Region kingdom sent to Great Liang.

Not only is he forced to become a spy, but the difficulty is hellish from the start:

The prince who once personally sentenced him to death has become emperor. The close friend who had promised to live and die with him, then betrayed him, has become a great general. Even the servant boy who used to follow him around is now a powerful first-rank chancellor at court.

The great villain rubs his chin and brings home an abandoned child he finds in the snow.

He decides to give his old enemies a little welcome gift.

The child is solitary by nature.

Ji Wang casually fabricates a tragic backstory about him having been lost among the common people, and the ninth prince makes a splendid return to court.

The child is ruthless and cold-hearted.

Ji Wang casually teaches him underhanded ways to kill, and accidentally trains him until no one below the level of a death soldier can rival him.

Ji Wang only meant to add a little fun to his retirement, but he never expected his lessons to be so spectacularly effective:

The crown prince is toppled, the chancellor's home is confiscated over corruption, the general is defeated and left disabled, and the emperor dies of illness in the palace.

The ninth prince, once reviled as a bastard, becomes the emperor. An imperial edict appoints the hostage Ji Fuyin as a first-rank Grand Tutor, restoring to him the reputation, status, and power that those former officials had taken from Ji Wang.

Ji Wang, who has never raised a child before, is deeply gratified. "There's no need for the Grand Tutor position. Seeing you do so well, your teacher can finally feel at ease and go enjoy the mountains and rivers."

That very night, Ji Wang is locked inside the imperial bedchamber. The once-arrogant, frivolous villain is now bound to the bed with ropes, left at the mercy of the young man he raised himself.

The young emperor finally embraces the figure he has longed for day and night. Nuzzling Ji Wang's neck, he murmurs clingingly, "Teacher taught me military formations, stratagems, and the art of ruling, but you haven't taught me about marital relations or lovemaking. Your student doesn't understand."

Ji Wang: "..."

This is bad. The child I left to his own devices seems to have grown up all wrong.

In the past, Ji Wang was surrounded by so many people. Meng Qin Xun hated the shameless, clingy, malicious gazes they directed at his teacher.

But fortunately, now his teacher's eyes hold no one but him.

Theme: Persevere and strive to live well