The Struggle for the Throne

This novel will be completed on November 22, 2023, and moved behind the paywall. Chapters 22-86 will be locked, so if you've already read them, please don't buy them again. Thank you for sticking with me all this way, and I hope you'll continue to support me in the future~ * Coming soon: *After Transmigrating into a Book, I Cling to the Villainous Ghost King*. Here's the blurb. Sweet readers, please tap over to my author page and add it to your collection~ The Ghost King had been summoned into the palace by the Great Qi royal family for nearly five hundred years, and this was the first time anyone had willingly barged into his main hall. The visitor was an unfavored prince. Though he sometimes turned deathly pale with fright, he still kept bringing the Ghost King things: an antique painting one day, a jade ornament the next. He even wrapped up some of the flower cakes and treats bestowed by the emperor and brought them over. After centuries of peace and quiet, the Ghost King was thoroughly fed up. So, on a dark and windy night, he revealed his inhuman identity to the prince. Ghost King: So if you want to live, run. Prince: ... Ghost King: . Ghost King: Not toward me. * My completed novels, *The Reborn Little Merman of the Fierce Marshal* and *After My Tail Was Touched, I Got the General's Baby*, are also waiting on my author page for you sweet readers to pick them up~ * Novel blurb: A prince as the shou, a general as the gong One-on-one, happy ending Blurb 1 "General, the Fourth Prince... The Fourth Prince is going to marry the granddaughter of the Duke of Founding! Hey... General... where are you going?" When Mu Sunan burst into Prince Xian's residence, Wen Guci was pruning the begonias in the courtyard. "Why are you here... Mm... What are you doing?! It's broad daylight. Have you lost your mind?" "I heard you're getting married." Mu Sunan's gaze darkened as he kissed him again. "Your Highness, Prince Xian, are you going to be a heartless man?" Wen Guci blushed to the tips of his ears and struggled, his voice stern but unconvincing. "Heart... heartless? What do you mean? If I were going to be heartless, would you... Mm..." Chunlan, who had been sweeping, covered her face and slipped out, telling the others that there would be no need to attend to the prince in his courtyard tonight. Sigh. The prince would probably sleep in again tomorrow morning. Blurb 2, written for fun A quarter of the officials at court looked down on Wen Guci, saying he was nothing but a bully who wielded power by riding on the emperor's favor. Another quarter hated him, because during the years he had been involved in government, he had seized on their misdeeds and dealt with them harshly, without showing them the slightest courtesy. Yet another quarter both feared and despised him: they feared he might come after them, and despised him for acting spoiled because of the emperor's favor. Only the last quarter of the officials were Wen Guci's own people. And Mu Sunan had no idea when he had become unable to look away from him. Perhaps it was the ambition hidden in Wen Guci's eyes when they studied together at the Hongwen Academy. Perhaps it was the way he charmed everyone at a palace banquet, raising his cup with one person after another. Or perhaps it was later, in a cave on Panlong Mountain, where two badly wounded men leaned back-to-back, like candles about to burn out, greedily drawing warmth from each other as they clung to life, until they both made it through... In any case, by the time Mu Sunan realized what had happened, that man had already claimed the softest corner of his heart. He didn't dare approach him, but he couldn't bring himself to let go. P.S. Please don't take the historical details too seriously. The official titles are a hodgepodge, and aren't based on any particular dynasty... [There are lots of other upcoming novels on my author page. If you're passing by, take a look] Theme: Justice will ultimately triumph over evil. The night may be long, but dawn will always come.