#Male Replacement
Arrogant, brilliant regent princess × patient young emperor willing to be a stand-in
Shen Wenmiao is the most brazen and free-spirited regent princess in the history of the Great Sheng Dynasty.
Her officials accuse her of three crimes:
First, with the ruler still young and the state in doubt, she monopolizes power and governs without restraint.
Second, she lives in outrageous luxury and keeps male companions.
Third, she secretly maintains private troops and gathers former allies, plotting rebellion.
Shen Wenmiao: I'm innocent!
This palace has not the slightest intention of rebelling.
Her life plan is perfectly clear: raise the young emperor, return power to him, then make a run for it, follow Fan Li's example and sail the Five Lakes, with Xi Shi in her arms.
Only one crucial step remains: Dear little brother, why haven't you married yet?
The late emperor left an edict: until the emperor takes a wife, no one may marry the princess.
So what's wrong with keeping a few male companions to relieve the boredom?
Later, the emperor kicks her off to the southern border to oversee the troops. On the way, she comes across a handsome young gentleman in distress, as beautiful as a flower and a feast for the eyes.
Not only is he as handsome as Pan An and Song Yu, he also bears a striking resemblance to her late fiance, the moonlight of her heart.
Most importantly, he is utterly devoted to her, gentle and considerate, with her filling both his heart and his eyes.
It's not easy to find a good man these days who knows how to obey his wife and sovereign.
Shen Wenmiao: Excellent. Then I'll spend every day looking at you and secretly mourning my dead beloved.
She has a hard-working lot in life. After only a few days in this gentle paradise, she's summoned back to the capital. True to her word, she brings the stand-in young gentleman back to her estate, too.
Until one day, she realizes that this "gentleman in distress" not only has an extraordinary bearing, but always looks oddly amused whenever she curses the wicked emperor.
Later, a colleague hints to her that the emperor has recently been staying out all night, lost in the charms of some ordinary woman in the capital.
Shen Wenmiao looks down at the obedient stand-in in her arms and falls into deep thought.
Horrified, she jumps up, eager to cut ties with him.
The stand-in's eyes turn red. Looking so pitifully lovable, he softly calls her, "Sister..."
Making the emperor play a stand-in? How outrageously treasonous of her...
And how outrageously satisfying.
She is so delighted that she forgets to ask the stand-in before her, who is in fact the emperor: If she fakes her death and runs away, who will these private troops in her estate obey?
Bonus scene
Wenmiao: A stand-in should act like a stand-in. You can warm my bed, but don't you dare climb into it.
Shen Xuanzhang (smiling): All right.
Wenmiao: When I tell you to go east, you don't go west.
Shen Xuanzhang (quietly moving closer): All right.
Wenmiao: And you... (gets kissed)
Shen Xuanzhang: Sister, I won't climb into your bed or go west. Can I... get into yours?
P.S. The male and female leads are not related by blood in any way.
The full manuscript is complete, so you can count on the author to finish it.
Theme: The country comes before the family.
