Regent Gong x Emperor Shou
Su Yuan is a puppet emperor in name only, with all the power of the court firmly in the hands of Ding'an Prince Chu Li.
Even getting pocket money or a little meat with his meals requires Chu Li's permission.
He does not even get to choose his consorts or appoint an empress!
The children his peers have are lively and adorable, and can even sweetly call them by name. Meanwhile, his harem is empty, and he has no children. Just thinking about it makes him jealous.
Su Yuan wants a little baby, so he decides to seize power. Unfortunately, he has neither brains nor military might. After all that effort, he not only fails to hurt Chu Li in the slightest, but earns himself a place on Chu Li's list of grudges.
From then on, his pocket money is cut in half, and the only meat left in his meals is minced meat...
Su Yuan is furious!
I only want a little prince. How can that be so hard?
Later, a courtier offers him a plan, telling Su Yuan he can secretly take a noblewoman outside the palace, then bring the child back after it is born. He can ask for forgiveness after the fact!
Delighted, Su Yuan changes into ordinary clothes, uses a sacrificial ceremony as an excuse to leave the palace, and waits for the noblewoman arranged by the courtier.
In a darkened room, the suggestive scent of incense fills the air. The noblewoman the courtier arranged is eager and passionate, and Su Yuan gradually loses himself, going limp as water.
A sudden pain jolts him awake in the middle of it all.
Only then does Su Yuan realize that the person holding him may not be a noblewoman after all. But by then, it is too late...
Three months later, Su Yuan clutches his belly and angrily demands, "Where's the noblewoman you promised me? The person who came that night was clearly a man!"
Courtier: !!!
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At fourteen, Ding'an Prince Chu Li pacified the frontier and campaigned deep into enemy territory. At fifteen, he dared to storm the palace with a spear and place the ten-year-old Su Yuan on the throne.
He achieved all that before he had even reached his mid-twenties.
Yet for a god of war like him, his greatest worry is that the emperor he personally put on the throne never seems to learn.
When a tutor scolds him, he runs to Chu Li to complain. When he does something wrong, he tries to charm his way out of trouble. Every so often, he even plays harmless little tricks on him. He is nothing like an emperor.
Looking at the little emperor clinging to him and begging sweetly for forgiveness, Chu Li cannot help but sigh. The future really does seem to stretch endlessly ahead...
One day, while pursuing a criminal, Chu Li accidentally enters a side room. The scent of incense inside makes him dizzy, and in his daze, he spends the night with a man.
The candles burn out that night. His mind is clouded, and he never sees the man's face clearly. He only vaguely remembers a red mole on the small of the man's back.
Afterward, he searches for a long time through his connections, but cannot find a single trace of the man.
Later, he accidentally discovers that his own silly emperor has a red mole on the small of his back, too.
Later still, he discovers that this silly emperor is pregnant. Red-eyed and clutching Chu Li's sleeve, he begs pitifully, "Big Brother, I can't get rid of it! What do I do?"
Chu Li: ...
He thinks he knows who the man from that night was.
1. Both are virgins. This is not love at first sight: they fall in love after the pregnancy.
2. Male pregnancy. The shou only got pregnant because he accidentally took a pregnancy pill.
3. The gong is five years older than the shou. In the main story, the shou is eighteen and the gong is twenty-three.
Theme: True love is priceless.
